A move to bring a criminal charge against on-leave Ministry of the Presidency Permanent Secretary Omar Shariff and a woman was yesterday aborted after the special prosecutor assigned to the matter discovered issues with the case file.
Bartica massacre accused Mark Royden Williams yesterday told Justice Roxane George SC and the jury hearing his trial that he is innocent of the charges levelled against him.
The APNU+AFC government quietly signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on December 8, 2016 with a Trinidadian company to look at the possibility of setting up a sugarcane processing facility at the Skeldon Sugar Estate.
The Guyana Public Service Union is once again drawing attention to the plight of sweeper/cleaners attached to Public Schools.
After tying up three guards, bandits yesterday morning broke into the Lusignan/Reconnaissance Neighbourhood Dem-ocratic Council (NDC) office and stole a digital camera, a grass cutter and fuel pump after finding an empty safe, which they believed had contained $16 million.
Convicted drug trafficker Barry Dataram was yesterday sentenced to three years in jail for the unlawful possession of ammunition, while his common-law wife, Anjanie Boodnarine, had the charge against her withdrawn.
Simon James, the suspect in the fatal stabbing of a man at Moruca on Sunday, was yesterday remanded to prison after being read a charge of murder by a city magistrate.
A taxi driver was shot yesterday when bandits robbed his passenger of approximately $1.5 million in a brazen attack outside the Jialing store at Charlotte and Oronoque streets, Georgetown.
The Guyana Court of Appeal on Tuesday set aside the 58-month jail sentence handed down to jeweller Bishnarine ‘Sanjay’ Persaud in 2015 for causing death by dangerous driving, while saying that the decision to convict was “troubling.”
A couple and a former ministerial aide, who are accused of plotting to traffic a large quantity of cocaine aboard a Fly Jamaica flight in 2015, were yesterday ordered to lead a defence after a court found that a prima facie case was made out against them.
Over the past school term, all the classes at the De Veldt Nursery and Primary schools, located in the Berbice River and made up of a total of nearly 60 students and representing eight class levels between them, have been taught by only two teachers.
Following an announcement by the Ministry of Education on Tuesday confirming a change in the annual Mashramani route, Coordinator of the event Lennox Canterbury has stated that the ministry is open to accommodating adjustments to the plan.
The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) is in the process of building a multi-purpose recreational facility on its land at the corner of Irving Street and Thomas Lands.
Twenty seven communities in Region Ten will benefit from works to be done by the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) for the first time there.
US Ambassador to Guyana, Perry Holloway yesterday handed over 56 law books valued at more than US$25,000 to the Chancellor of the Judiciary, Justice Carl Singh.
The flooding and erosion at Almond Beach, in Region One, is not a life-threatening situation, according to acting Minister of State Raphael Trotman, who says the government is nonetheless awaiting a report from the team that was sent to assess the area.
A West Ruimveldt resident who is charged with driving in a dangerous manner and ending the life of another man, was on Wednesday called upon to lead his defence.
The trial of former PPP/C minister Dr Jennifer Westford and her former aide Margaret Cummings, who are charged with the alleged theft of over $600 million from the government, continued yesterday with further testimony from detective Richard Frank, who recounted a confrontation that was held between Cummings and Joe Harold Williams, the Office of the President accountant, over signed payment vouchers and monies.
The Canadian Vision Care Medical Team will be performing free eye examinations for the general public at the Anna Regina Mandir recreation hall from January 29 to February 5, 2017.
President David Granger and the Government of Guyana have extended sympathies to Member of Parliament Priya Manickchand on the passing of her mother, Hyacinth Manickchand.
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