Guyana News

A US$250,000 project was yesterday launched to harmonise the forest and land information systems of the  Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission (GLSC) and the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC).

A man was yesterday charged with the rape of two women during attacks on the Essequibo Coast.

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carl Greenidge says the records of the ministry do not show any significant number of infringements by remigrants in relation to their concessions either by complaints or action by the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA), the institution which grants the concessions.

Some legal minds are of the firm belief that the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) should appeal the recent dismissal of 24 charges of larceny by a public officer that were laid against former Public Service Minister Dr Jennifer Westford and her former aide Margaret Cummings, while questioning why a technicality that rendered the charges against the former bad in law was not detected during the two years the matter engaged the court’s attention.

The Guyana Power and Light Incorporated (GPL) will have an additional generator in place by the end of September to meet electricity demands on the Essequibo Coast, according to the Department of Public Information (DPI).

A Corentyne man who was sentenced to death in 2011 for the murder of his stepfather, after which the conviction was overturned by the Court of Appeal in July, was on Monday sentenced to 26 years imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to manslaughter.

The Guyana Power and Light yesterday received multi-million dollar bids from companies to undertake rehabilitation work on their medium and low voltage distribution network.

Munir Amin, the block maker who was seriously injured following a suspected hit and run accident last Monday, remains hospitalised in a city hospital and the police have not made any arrest in the matter.

Ovid Isaacs, a burglar who stole beverages from a city shop and then returned as the owner was reviewing the security camera footage, was yesterday fined $30,000. 

The Supply Health centre project on the East Bank of Demerara has been halted after the Regional Executive Officer of Region Four, Pauline Lucas raised serious concerns over the quality of construction.

Matthew Wilks, an experienced senior oil and gas business developer and negotiator, has been appointed Oil and Gas Adviser in the Department of Energy within the Ministry of the Presidency.

The police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a male pensioner whose lifeless body was discovered in his yard about 19:00hrs yesterday with injuries to the head and right eye. 

(Trinidad Express) The Trinidad Government has decided to shut down the refinery of State oil company Petrotrin.

Teachers around the country took to the streets yesterday to protest government’s failure to honour joint proposals for wages and other benefits and faced with the possibility that the new school year will begin with a strike, the Ministry of Education announced contingency plans, including the deployment of trainees.

Former Guyana Defence Force (GDF) soldier Allister Woolford was yesterday sentenced to 15 years in prison for what he had said was the “accidental” shooting death of a man he described as being his best friend.

Ingrid Wilson, the woman who was attacked in North Ruimveldt, Georgetown by three pit bulls, received over 70 stitches for her injuries and is currently at home recovering.

Ethan Calistro will be spending the next decade behind bars for the fatal stabbing of a man when he was only 15-years-old.

The Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) on Sunday afternoon released the owner of the airplane who was detained at the Eugene F.

Ramdeo Ferreira, the three-year-old who was fatally stabbed by his mother on Saturday at Foulis, Enmore, East Coast Demerara, died from a stab wound to his heart, an autopsy found yesterday.

Carlton Bourne, the former murder accused who is currently a remanded prisoner after being charged with a series of armed robberies, was yesterday faced with more charges, including shooting at policemen.