Guyana News

The 17-year-old girl who was subjected on Sunday to a cavity search for drugs at the Eugene F Correia International Airport (EFCIA) at Ogle has broken her silence and says that her family is currently seeking legal advice.

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has appealed the recent acquittal of murder accused Edward Skeete and Nabadingi Gobin, saying that the alleged dying declaration made by the deceased should have been admitted into evidence.

A Corentyne  hire car driver was left in a state of shock after a woman robbed him of $2,000, one Blu cellphone costing $4,000 and then burnt his car valued $850,000 at the Number 63 beach, minutes to 7 yesterday morning.

Residents of Canal Number One, West Bank Demerara (WBD) were on Sunday told by Guyana Power and Light (GPL) personnel of improved service.

CARICOM Secretary General, Irwin LaRocque yesterday called on the region to counteract the threat of crime and violence, noting its severe toll on society.

The Commission of Inquiry (CoI) set up to investigate the 2008 Lindo Creek killings will commence public hearings on Thursday.

The Ministry of Social Protection yesterday presented relief packages, including beds, mattresses and cooking utensils, to the victims of last Friday’s Victoria Road, Plaisance, East Coast Demerara fire.

A North West District man was yesterday charged with the rape of six-year-old, which he allegedly committed in 2016.

A Mabaruma carpenter was yesterday sentenced to a year in jail after pleading guilty to escaping from police custody.

A husband and wife were yesterday each fined $100,000 after they pleaded guilty to forging Canadian Visas.

A West Coast Berbice businessman is now counting his losses after burglars robbed him of $24,000 cash, a quantity of cellphones valued at $560,000, one pack of Digicel cards valued at $25,000 and one Acer laptop worth $120,000, sometime between Friday evening and Saturday morning.

Three weeks after the establishment of a local law school was to be discussed at a Council of Legal Education (CLE) meeting in Barbados, Attorney General (AG) Basil Williams SC, who was in attendance, and the government are mum on the outcome.

A post-mortem examination has determined that Mahaicony guard Rakesh Bhajanram, who went missing at the end of last month, died by drowning.

Relatives of Jeffroy Girwar, one of the two men who drowned on Thursday last in the Makari River, in Region Seven, are calling for a thorough investigation of his death, which they believe is the result of foul play.

The trial of Marlon Freemen, who is accused of murdering a man at Five Star Backdam, in the North West District, continued yesterday morning before Justice James Bovell-Drakes and a 12-member jury at the Georgetown High Court.

A thirty-nine-year-old Siparuta, Corentyne River, Berbice resident was yesterday arrested after police found a gun and a quantity of ammunition under his bed, police last night said.

A 46-year-old businessman who was last Friday night rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation in an unconscious state after being beaten, succumbed to his injuries about  5 this morning.

Guyana could be losing out by as much as US$108m per year because of its low royalty rate of 2% in the agreement with ExxonMobil’s subsidiary and much more if as expected production rises in the future to as much as 400,000 barrels of oil per day in the Stabroek Block.

Funding of $30 billion (US$150m) is being sought for the sugar industry over the next four years, according to a statement yesterday from government holding company, NICIL and its Special Purpose Unit (SPU) set up to oversee privatisation of GuySuCo’s estates.

Police in ‘F’ Division (Interior Locations) are investigating the deaths of two men who were pulled from the Makari River, Mazaruni, Essequibo yesterday afternoon.