Guyana News

City Hall has earned $320m in container fees between August of 2016 and March of this year but there is a view that this figure should have been higher.

Residents of Hauraruni, on the Linden-Soesdyke Highway, yesterday appealed for an intervention by the relevant authorities to fix their access road, days after a fire service truck was unable to reach the village to put out an early morning fire that nearly razed its Multi-Complex Hall.

Husband and wife Nyron Thakurdyal and Vishwantie Ragnauth, who were on trial for the murder of Patentia miner Sunil Ramsundar, were yesterday both found guilty of the crime.

Three of the men held after Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) enforcement officers came under gunfire during anti-smuggling operation at Bee Hive, East Coast Demerara (ECD) last week, were faced with charges on Thursday.

A Jamaican court has ordered International Media Content Limited (IMCL), the parent company of regional sports broadcaster SportsMax, to fulfill an agreement it made with local cable provider E-Networks for the right to broadcast the FIFA World Cup now underway in Russia.

The Guyana Power and Light Incorporated (GPL), and the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company were required to dole out over $24 million in credits and rebates last year after complaints against them were settled by the Complaints Division of the Public Utilities Commission (PUC).

A task force set up to examine the governance structure of the University Of Guyana (UG) has recommended that the membership of the university’s governing council be severely pared down and its functions restricted to policy formation so that the Vice-Chancellor (VC) can have greater autonomy in the day-to-day running of the institution.

Guyana and Cuba recommitted to enhance their relations through increased collaboration and cooperation in the fields of health, environmental conservation, disaster management and tourism, among others, during a meeting between President David Granger and Cuba’s Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Rogelio Sierra Diaz.

Tirani Narine, a student of the Academy of Excellence, yesterday spelled his way to victory in finals of the National Library/Assuria Life annual Spelling Bee.

After the deferral of another slated hearing, Derwin Eastman and Jamenson Williams, the two former policemen charged with the murder of businessman Godfrey Scipio, yesterday voiced their anger at not being able to have their day in court.

A hairdresser was yesterday charged with having possession of almost three pounds of cannabis found aboard a boat at the Bartica Stelling on Wednesday.

Police Corporal Rondell Gouveia today appeared at the Sparendaam Magistrate’s Court 2 before Magistrate Zamilla Ally-Seepaul, charged with unlawful wounding, two counts of assault causing actual bodily harm, two counts of threatening language, damage to property, and disorderly behaviour committed on Candace Younge and Alisha Martin on June 5, 2018 at Sophia, to which he pleaded not guilty and was placed on a total of $140,000 bail.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A federal judge today sent President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, to jail pending trial, after Special Counsel Robert Mueller charged him last week with witness tampering.

First Bauxite Corporation (FBX) has begun construction of the Bonasika Bauxite Project under its subsidiary Guyana Industrial Minerals Inc.   

Reiterating the PPP/C’s concerns that the APNU+AFC government plans to rig the 2020 general elections, Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday said his party would do everything in its power to thwart any such attempts.

Jermaine Josiah, the accused robber who allegedly shot Charlestown wash bay operator Leroy Robinson on Sunday, was yesterday faced with multiple charges, including discharging a loaded firearm.

For the first time a Guyanese sits on the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC).

A well erupted in the yard of a Sixth Avenue, Diamond Housing Scheme resident last evening.

Linden resident Clarence Carter, who stabbed his wife to death in an attack at Wisroc Housing Scheme and then made an unsuccessful attempt to end his own life, was yesterday sentenced to serve 18 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to manslaughter.

Guyana’s growing business potential is the main factor behind it being chosen as the location for the Hard Rock Café’s first Caribbean franchise, a representative of the company said yesterday after meeting with the Private Sector Commission (PSC) and major companies in the manufacturing sector.