Guyana News

Mayor Patricia Chase-Green on Monday announced that she has received a copy of the report of the recently-concluded Commission of Inquiry Report (CoI) into the operations of City Hall.

A man accused of stealing $25,000 in items from a city residence, was granted $10,000 bail yesterday by a city court.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Prime Minister Theresa May survived a confidence vote from her Conservative party today, but more than a third of her lawmakers said she was no longer the right leader to implement Britain’s exit from the European Union.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Michael Cohen, U.S. President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, was sentenced to a total of three years in prison today for his role in making illegal hush-money payments to women to help Trump’s 2016 election campaign and lying to Congress about a proposed Trump Tower project in Russia.

The bodies of a Kuru Kururu, Soesdyke/Linden Highway couple with multiple stab wounds were discovered in their home by their children yesterday morning, following an argument hours before.

The National Industrial & Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL) yesterday announced that it has placed its 6,099,927 equity shares in Guyana Stockfeeds Incorporated on the local stock market.

Motorbike racer Stephen Vieira yesterday professed his innocence in an attempt to ship $550 million worth of cocaine in dressed lumber to the United States.

Umesh Boodram, the driver who collided with two young men on a motorcycle at Ogle, was yesterday charged with causing their deaths by dangerous driving.

Ryan Persaud, the police constable who was involved in the accident that left motorcyclist Akemo Anthony dead in September, was yesterday freed of a related driving under the influence charge.

President David Granger returned to Guyana last night after completing the second round of chemotherapy for Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, the Ministry of the Presidency said.

An argument over $600 led to a woman being charged yesterday with the attempted murder of a vendor.

ExxonMobil has funded the purchase of US$40,000 ($8.4m) worth of equipment for the Physics Lab at the University of Guyana which was destroyed by a fire in 2015.

Two youths were yesterday both released on bail after they denied attempting to rob an undercover police officer.

Minister of Agriculture Noel Holder is set to get a new four-wheel drive vehicle and the City of Georgetown is to receive four mobile pumps through the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) to alleviate flooding in the city once the national budget is given parliamentary approval.

While expecting that the major parties will be pulling out all the stops at the 2020 elections, former United States Ambassador Perry Holloway says that defusing the racial conflict that has been fueled by politics will require work by both sides of the divide.

A Venezuelan man was on Monday sentenced to two years in jail after he admitted to illegally having a pistol and matching rounds of live ammunition.

To ensure children of “displaced sugar workers” do not miss school because they have nothing to eat, a group of Berbicians who formed an organisation, Service to Humanity (StH) are continuing to provide them with meals.

Over $1 billion has been allocated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the payment of legal fees associated with Guyana’s move to the International Court of Justice for the adjudication of its border controversy with Venezuela, Minister Carl Greenidge revealed on Monday after being questioned by Opposition Chief Whip Gail Teixeira during the consideration of the planned expenditure for next year.

Sentenced to 70 years in jail for murder, Lloyd Rampersaud has challenged both his conviction and the sentence, with his lawyer saying that the trial judge failed to direct the jury on how to deal with glaring “discrepancies” in the evidence presented.

A man was on Monday granted his release on $50,000 bail after he was charged with damaging a pregnant woman’s car.