Guyana News

A McDoom, East Bank Demerara resident was rudely awakened early yesterday morning after a car crashed into and destroyed a large section of her fence.

Faced with a mounting maintenance bill for its crumbling Camp Street Headquarters, the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has once again appealed to Cabinet for its approval of the construction of a Campus at Liliendaal.

Commonwealth Secretary-General Baroness Patricia Scotland said last Friday that the Secretariat supported the just concluded regional anti-money laundering workshop for judges and prosecutors, having recognized the need for judicial independence and integrity.

Attorneys who are handling cases for the State without the knowledge and authorization of the Minister of Legal Affairs and Attorney General (AG) Basil Williams SC are being asked to immediately contact his Chambers and to also provide a written report on the status of those matters.

ANSA McAl  Trading Limited has marked its 25th year in Guyana with an extension of  services to Bartica, Region Seven.

A 35-year-old labourer was on Friday remanded to prison for allegedly stealing over $850,000 worth of valuables from a store.

An 18-year-old was on Friday placed on $40,000 bail for allegedly stealing over $140,000 from a Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited Account.

Former Police Commissioner Floyd McDonald today said that he never received any diamonds pertaining to a mater involving Ronald Khan.

(Barbados Nation) The two children whose mother was killed in a Swan Street salon almost a month ago will now be cared for by a maternal aunt in Barbados.

Amid growing outrage over a piracy attack in which around a dozen Guyanese are still missing, Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan is due to have talks today in Suriname with security officials there.

Ten men armed with one gun and several cutlasses carried out the April 27th piracy attack off of Suriname, according to one of the survivors.

Finance Minister Winston Jordan two weeks ago tabled a bill for the establishment  of a National Payments System (NPS) which will encompass a broad range of  areas including licensing, fees and charges and money transfer agencies .

The Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) is ready to hold Local Government Elections (LGE) which are due by December this year, according to its Chairman, Justice (retired) James Patterson who said on Wednesday that a declaration of the date is all that is outstanding.

Though he had said that he would seek legal advice on the impasse over the top two appointments to the judiciary, President David Granger on Wednesday said that the ball was now in the court of the Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo.

Preparations are said to be underway for a meeting between US carrier American Airlines and the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA).

Motorists were left stranded for about two hours yesterday after an out-of-control barge laden with stone crashed into the Demerara Habour Bridge causing serious damage to the structure.

Former Deputy Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture, Prema Ramanah-Roopnarine and business consultant Badrie Persaud have filed applications in the High Court asking for the intent to defraud charge against them which arose out of the forensic audit of the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) quashed due to the failure of the prosecution to disclose a copy of the audit report to them.

Farmers and residents of New Friendship-Vigilance on the East Coast of Demerara will now benefit from a new $240M drainage pump station which was commissioned on Friday.

Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of the Presidency’s Department of the Public Service (DPS), Reginald Brotherson has challenged Karen Vansluytman-Corbin to present the evidence behind her claims his department is corrupt.

Chairman of Region 9, Bryan Allicock on Friday reinforced calls to have major works done on the Pirara Bridge in the Rupununi, which he says is currently in a deplorable condition.