Guyana News

A 28-year-old labourer, who is accused of fatally stabbing his co-worker during a drinking spree near the mouth of the Pomeroon River on Saturday morning, was yesterday remanded to prison, after being arraigned on a murder charge.

A taxi-driver who was charged with trafficking over eight pounds of cannabis reportedly found in the trunk of the car he had been driving, was yesterday sentenced to three years for the crime, and fined $1.7 million.

The police in ‘G’ Division have released the widow of Gowkarran Narine, the Essequibo labourer who succumbed last Friday after  an autopsy confirmed that his neck wound was self-inflicted.

A rank from the city police outpost was yesterday granted bail, after he was accused of discharging a loaded firearm at a minibus driver during an argument.

Former New Building Society (NBS) manager Kent Vincent was sacked in 2007, not because of any inefficiency in his performance, but rather partly because of his refusal to attend a meeting called by Board of Directors of the financial institution.

Eighteen Caribbean countries will congregate at the US Southern Command headquarters in Miami, Florida, to meet with the US Deputy Secretary of State, John J.

After admitting to hitting the mother of his children about her head with a soft drinks case and threatening to not stop beating her until she died, a mechanic was on Tuesday sentenced to 18 months in jail.

The Guyana Water Inc (GWI) has completed the geo-physical logging of 100 wells along Guyana’s coast, the first phase for formulating a groundwater management plan.

Despite a police presence at the Stabroek Market Square, robberies and attempted robberies are still being committed on persons who frequent the area to conduct business or visit.

A date was on Tuesday set for the commencement of the Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the murder charge against two men arraigned for the fatal shooting of taxi driver Kelvin Walters.

Governance and the country’s business and investment climate were high on the agenda during a meeting between a delegation of European Union (EU) Ambassadors and a three-member opposition team on Tuesday.

The Ministry of Education (MoE) and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat held a special seminar on Tuesday in an effort to address the issues of learning difficulties and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD).

Attorney General (AG) Basil Williams SC has declined again to publicly state how much Grenadian Queen’s Counsel Dr Francis Alexis was paid for his services in the no-confidence case when it was before the Guyana Court of Appeal.

A 37-year-old vendor who was charged over the possession of narcotics, was granted bail on Tuesday.

Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) on Monday announced the winners of its poster and essay competitions in observance of World Water Day 2019.

A fire of unknown origin yesterday afternoon gutted a partially-destroyed, abandoned building at Waterloo Street, Georgetown but quick action by the Guyana Fire Service prevented it from spreading to nearby buildings.

The Department of Social Cohesion, Culture, Youth and Sport, is partnering with government and other private agencies to host a youth employment drive tomorrow in an attempt to tackle unemployment.

Milaimi Alli, who was wanted by police in connection with  the 2009 murder of her husband, fuel dealer Ramzan Alli, was today charged with the crime, days after a taxi driver was charged with the same offence.

The Opposition People’s Progressive Party has accused Minister of Public Telecommunications, Cathy Hughes of impropriety after her company Videomega productions was awarded a contract by the Department of Energy.

The United States acknowledges that it is within Guyana’s sovereign right to renegotiate the controversial Production Sharing Agreement (PSA)  between the country and ExxonMobil and its partners if it so chooses, recently accredited US Ambassador to Guyana, Sarah-Ann Lynch says.