Guyana News

Attorney-at-law Bernard Da Silva, who represented Devanand Singh, the businessman who assaulted and abused his daughter during last month is no longer a defence counsel in the case.

The Police in Regional Division #10 are investigating the alleged damaging of a 212 Toyota Motorcar (HB 4084) by an unknown person.

After conducting 303 COVID-19 tests, the Ministry of Health yesterday said that six cases of the novel Coronavirus were recorded.

(Santa Barbara News-Press) Santa Barbara County chambers of commerce are warning of potential economic ramifications after the Board of Supervisors denied an ExxonMobil trucking plan in March. 

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed on May 3rd between Excalibur Minerals LLC and Ithaca Energy Partners Inc (IEP), a Guyanese company for the setting up of a barium compounds manufacturing facility to aid the oil and gas industry.

Armed bandits on Thursday night attacked and robbed a 24-year-old Guyana Defence Force (GDF) soldier at his South Amelia’s Ward, Linden home.

President Irfaan Ali and a high-level cabinet team held a brief meeting with the President of the Federative Republic of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro (left) at State House this morning.

A Corentyne businessman died after a car struck him along the Nigg Public Road this morning.

GPL yesterday accused the local company which had been managing its generators of using cheaper parts which then required early replacement.

A taxi driver died yesterday morning after he lost control of the motorcar he was driving along the Windsor Forest Public Road, West Coast Demerara and two children were injured.

The Demerara Distillers Limited Group registered after-tax profit of $4.789b for 2021, 23% or $896m above the previous year.

Almost 62 percent of Guyanese normalize intimate partner violence (IPV) and agree that physical violence between couples is a private matter which should be handled by the couple themselves or their families, according to a Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP) report.

The Guyana Press Association (GPA) yesterday raised concerns that a two-day media conference organised by the government promoted self-censorship under the guise of responsible reporting and that there was a conflation of journalism with other aspects of communication including social media influencing.

Family members of Suresh Dyal of Maria’s Lodge in Region Two are in a state of shock at the news of the man’s sudden death.

Police in Region Four can now view the live feed of movements in the community of Haslington New Scheme on the East Coast of Demerara following the recent installation of two high-end CCTV cameras.

Three men were on Tuesday busted in Lethem with 48 grammes of cannabis by the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) in an operation aimed at combating narco-trafficking within various communities, including schools, the agency said.

Police are on the hunt for two bandits who attacked and robbed a La Grange, West Bank Demerara (WBD) family of over $500,000 in cash and other valuables on Wednesday night.

Noel Anthony Fredericks, the Mainstay resident who was found dead late last month, more than a week after he was last seen died as a result of compression injuries to the neck compounded by blunt trauma to the head, an autopsy confirmed.

With record keeping having been identified as one of the challenges facing accounting agencies, Public Accounts Committee (PAC) chairman, Jermaine Figueira, has recommended to the Region Three Regional Democratic Council (RDC) that they commence digital record-keeping.

The Houston, Texas-based Bilateral Chamber of Commerce and the Private Sector Commission (PSC) have pledged to leverage their combined resources to boost economic relations between the United States and Guyana.