Guyana News

Raids carried out yesterday by the Joint Services at the Georgetown Holding Bay and the Lusignan Prison turned up a quantity of improvised weapons and illegal substances.

An Orealla juvenile was apprehended by police yesterday morning after he was found to be in possession of 20 grams of cannabis.

An 18-year-old man is currently hospitalised after he was chopped by another man who alleges that the victim was trying to steal five of his ducklings valued at $5,000.

The police today said that Chandramala Singh, 19, of Lot 13 Novar, Mahaicony died in an accident on the Content Public Road last night.

The Regional Executive Office (REO) of Region Nine, Karl Singh has been taken into custody by the police following the shooting of a woman in Lethem last night.

The Police Service Commission (PSC) yesterday filed legal action against Police Commissioner Nigel Hoppie over his continued refusal to effect the promotions announced last month.

Yesterday’s meeting of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM)  was aborted after two opposition-nominated commissioners walked out in protest at the decision to entertain motions of dismissal against Chief Election Officer Keith Lowenfield, Deputy Chief Election Officer Roxanne Myers and District Four Returning Officer Clairmont Mingo.

Minibus driver Kevon Moore was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with causing the deaths of Shonica Edwards and Anthony Persaud during an accident at Diamond, East Bank Demerara (EBD) on Sunday.

To keep the Mandela Avenue land it recently built its Head Office on, and to obtain a transport, Cevons Waste Management agreed to withdraw all court cases against government, give up one of two contentious plots at Peters Hall on the East Bank Demerara and pay an outstanding $20 million balance, so disclosed Attorney General Anil Nandlall SC.

The three men accused of last Friday’s armed robbery of a Rockstone businesswoman were yesterday remanded to prison.

The General Council of the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) yesterday decided to launch a “spontaneous protest” against what they described as attempts by the Ministry of Education (MoE) to sideline the union from decision making during the COVID-19 pandemic.

With the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for the US$900 million gas-to-shore project set to begin in the near future, participants in the public scoping meetings currently being held by ExxonMobil are of the opinion that the EIA should be halted until the withdrawn 2020 guidelines are reinstated and more details about the project are disclosed.

A Castello Housing Scheme businesswoman was yesterday remanded to prison on a charge of illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition.

Georgetown Mayor Ubraj Narine on Monday announced that there are plans to relocate the Georgetown Municipal Abattoir.

Jane Miller was yesterday accredited as the United Kingdom’s first female High Commissioner here.

One new death along with 62 new COVID-19 cases were recorded yesterday.

Two moneychangers and another man were yesterday robbed of cash and cellular phones while plying their trade at the Skeldon Market.

Minister of Health, Dr Frank Anthony on Monday stated that the country’s current COVID-19 travel protocols are being reviewed.

A man is now hospitalised after he was shot in his leg on Monday during a robbery at Recht-Door-Zee, West Bank Demerara.

The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) has condemned the decision to arbitrarily deduct from the salaries of the nurses who staged protests in March to push for the removal of the Linden Complex Hospital (LHC) Chief Executive Officer, Rudolph Small.