A young miner was found buried in a shallow grave along the 16 Miles Road in Bartica on Wednesday morning and it is suspected that he was robbed while transporting a quantity of raw gold for his employer and then killed.
Twenty-five-year-old Wayne Jackson Wharton, who was shot on Wednesday evening while standing on the West Front Road, succumbed to his injuries hours after and the police have since arrested two suspects.
The body of a cook was yesterday morning found in his bed at his Blue Berry Hill, Linden home with multiple stab wounds.
Full-time utility specialists from Canada’s Manitoba Hydro International Ltd. (MHI) will be working with the local management of the Guyana Power and Light Inc (GPL) under a three-year programme intended to improve the efficiency of the utility company.
Andre Dazzell, the Chief Accountant at the Ministry of the Presidency, yesterday testified that 24 memos, dated from August, 2011 to April, 2015 and related to requests for funds amounting to nearly $600M for unknown evaluation exercises, were purportedly signed by former minister Jennifer Westford.
Following heavy criticism, Minister of Public Health, Dr George Norton yesterday apologised to the National Assembly, President David Granger and the Guyanese people for providing inaccurate information about the controversial Sussex Street drug bond and contract in August.
There is no risk in ending the contract with Wartsila for the management of four Guyana Power and Light Inc (GPL) supply stations, according to Board Chairman Robert Badal, who says the utility company is competent enough to undertake the job.
The Office of the Auditor General (AG) is investigating an apparent attempt by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to breach the Procurement Act by sub-dividing a contract worth $82.169 million so as to avoid cabinet scrutiny.
A team from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) which visited Guyana last month expressed shock at the extent of poverty on Lombard Street in the city.
A fire suspected to be of electrical origin gutted the two-storey, three bedroom home of a Corentyne family on Wednesday around 08:30 pm.
Roger Bess, the driver who allegedly fatally struck an elderly man and injured two other persons on Cemetery Road last year, yesterday denied that he was driving recklessly.
The badly decomposed body of a man that was discovered on Wednesday afternoon at Craig Sea Dam, East Bank Demerara has been positively identified by relatives and the police are awaiting an autopsy to determine if his death was due to foul play.
A Juvenile Justice Officer from the United States will be spending three months in Guyana to do a rapid assessment of the New Opportunity Corps (NOC) and make recommendations on the way forward.
A woman was yesterday remanded to prison after being charged with setting fire to a home and causing almost $2 million in damage as a result.
The body of an unidentified male was pulled from the trench along Church Street yesterday afternoon after it was discovered floating by school children who were playing at the Merriman Mall around 3:15 pm.
A police constable on Wednesday told a court that he had been confronted with the allegation that he had been involved in the attack on newspaper columnist Freddie Kissoon in which he was doused with faeces.
JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – South African President Jacob Zuma has asked a court to stop the release of results of an anti-corruption investigation over allegations of political interference by his wealthy friends, his spokeswoman said yesterday.
STOCKHOLM/BOSTON, (Reuters) – Bob Dylan, a powerful voice of social turmoil in the United States from the 1960s onward, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature yesterday in a surprise decision that made him the first singer-songwriter to win the honour.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – With Donald Trump’s U.S. election prospects dimming and controversy swirling around him, future Republican presidential hopefuls may be weighing whether standing by their man is the savvy move.
BANGKOK, (Reuters) – Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the world’s longest-reigning monarch and a father-figure to the nation, died in hospital yesterday.
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