Guyana News

The Women and Gender Equality Commission (WGEC) is very concerned about how victims of violence, including women, are being treated by the police force, according to commissioner Renata Chuck-A-Sang.

An Essequibo businessman was shot when he decided to stand up to two bandits during a robbery on Wednesday evening.

Three men appeared before a city court yesterday on a charge that they robbed a man of a cellphone.

A European Union (EU)-organised forum has recommended the formalising of the unofficial moratorium on the death penalty in Caribbean countries and it has argued that public opinion is not a major impediment to the removal of capital punishment.

Before the end of next year, government hopes to lay legislation in the National Assembly to set up a sovereign wealth fund, Minister of Governance Raphael Trotman has said.

A Paradise, Essequibo Coast fisherman is alleging that he was beaten up by a police officer stationed at the Anna Regina Police Station, at Essequibo Coast.

The People’s Republic of China has donated US$40,000 to the Global Friendships Foundation to aid in the restoration and enhancement of George-town, a release from the organisation said.

The retrial of Anthony Morrison commenced on Wednesday before Justice Priya Sewnarine-Beharry and a 12-member jury at the High Court, in Georgetown.

Two Mahdia residents were both remanded to prison yesterday on charges that they had marijuana for trafficking.

Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the hijacking of a fuel truck along the Mabura Road last Saturday.

Three men were yesterday charged with stealing nearly half of a million dollars’ worth of raw gold.

At about 1830h on Wednesday the police say they responded to a report of alleged larceny made against James Lamazon, 29 years.

The Guyana Association for Professional Surveyors installed its new managerial body on Wednesday at the Herdmanston Lodge, before Minister of State Joseph Harmon.

The trial of the two police constables accused of assaulting detainee Colwyn Harding, who has accused police of using a baton to rape him, was adjourned again yesterday.

The United States Embassy in Georgetown this month hosted a career guidance seminar themed “Launching your global career with STEM” at the Theatre Guild in celebration of International Education Week.

Bursting with excitement and eagerness, fifty primary school students recently participated in the Guyana Energy Agency’s (GEA) “Express Your Energy” activity held at the Transport and Harbours Sports Complex in Thomas Lands, a release from the GEA said.

Councillors of the Toevlugt/ Patentia Neighbourhood are longing for the holding of local government elections so that the decision-making process can be reverted to the local government level thereby giving neighbourhoods the freedom in carrying out their fiduciary duty to rate payers.

An 18-year-old was yesterday remanded to prison after he was brought before a city court on a robbery with violence charge.

A taxi driver was yesterday placed on $50,000 bail by a city court after he pleaded not guilty to conspiring with others to steal a gold chain.

The suspect in the murder of Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) dispatcher Melissa Skeete is claiming that she attacked him with a blade, which he managed to take away and then used to fatally stab her.