Guyana News

Local airline start-up Guyana Airways Corporation Inc yesterday announced that it is aiming to launch its inaugural flight within the next 90 days.

Sixteen days of global activism for the empowerment of women will begin tomorrow, with key priorities being the elimination of gender-based violence and fighting HIV/AIDs.

Customers desirous of using GTT’s landline call blocking will have to pay from next February after the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) on Thursday approved the company’s application to institute a monthly charge for the service.

In a less than two weeks, former Attorney-General (AG) Anil Nandlall will be expected to lead his defence to the charge that he fraudulently converted over $2 million in law reports.

Three teenagers, including two 15-year-olds, were charged yesterday with the murder of a 45-year-old man, whom they are accused of fatally stabbing after he stopped buying drugs from them.

A cosmetologist and a serving member of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) were yesterday both granted bail after they denied having possession of almost a pound of cannabis, which police said was found at the property where they both live.

A city magistrate on Wednesday ruled that there would be no stay in the proceedings against the former members of the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) who are charged with committing fraud.

Hugh Junior, the Leopold Street man who was charged last month with the attempted murder of a rival, was freed yesterday after his accuser opted against offering evidence against him.

Ramlall Bassant, the 64-year-old resident who was found dead at Goed Bananen Land, East Canje Berbice on Thursday, died from alcohol poisoning, an autopsy has found. 

Minister of Finance Winston Jordan has issued regulations under the Income Tax Act for the retroactive pay increases for public servants and public officers from January 1, 2018 to December 31st 2018 to be made tax free.

Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo today said that the Opposition’s motion of no-confidence in the government has no reasonable prospect of success but will nevertheless be debated sometime in December.

Magistrate Fabayo Azore today ruled that a prima facie case has been made out against former Attorney-General Anil Nandlall on the charge that he fraudulently converted over $2 million in law reports As a result, Nandlall has been called upon to lead a defence to the charge.

The Ministry of Public Infrastructure (MPI) today announced that that the eastern lane from Rupert Craig Highway to the Railway Embankment on Sheriff Street will be closed from Saturday, 24 November, 2018 for Sub grade works.

The results for the November 12th local government elections are set to be gazetted today, even as an investigation has concluded that the procedures for the approval of proxies were breached during the voting process in Mabaruma.

A city magistrate yesterday remanded a miner to prison after he was charged with murdering his common-law wife, whose body was discovered buried in a shallow grave near a mining camp on Sunday.

The city’s two largest garbage disposal contractors have once again announced that they would be withdrawing their services due to City Hall’s inability to pay for the work they have done over the last six months.

A farmer was yesterday remanded to prison after he denied having in his possession almost five pounds of cocaine.

There is a shortage of medication to treat patients with Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB), Public Health Ministry spokesman Terrence Esseboom confirmed yesterday.

At least two of the three ties in the First-Past-the-Post (FPTP) component of the recently held local government elections have been resolved.

Legal proceedings instituted against 18 rice farmers who had refused to accept the tripling of the rental fee for land they occupy were yesterday withdrawn by the Hope Coconut Estate Limited during a hearing before the Rice Assessment Committee at the Cove and John Magistrate’s Court.