Guyana News

Former Muneshwers Limited Travel Service agent Priya Lall, who is accused of defrauding customers and fleeing the country, was yesterday charged with an additional count of embezzlement from the company.

The two police constables accused of raping a Sophia woman at the Turkeyen Police Station on New Year’s Day have been charged with the crime.

Murder accused Narvin Sugrim Andrews, who was on remand for almost seven years at the New Amsterdam Prison, finally got his day in court this week and he was sentenced to 12 years in jail after pleading guilty to a lesser count of manslaughter.

A Wismar taxi driver was fatally stabbed early yesterday morning by his ex-wife’s current partner after he “violently forced” his way into the woman’s Amelia’s Ward, Linden home, police have said.

The Ministry of Education plans to temporarily phase out the Central High School, while undertaking to construct a new building to house the institution in the future.

Opposition leader Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday justified his party’s decision not to participate in the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the Lindo Creek massacre, while criticising the manner in which it has been established as partisan.

Government is reporting a significant increase in the implementation of the Public Sector Investment Programme (PSIP) following the institution of monthly Cabinet briefings for Permanent Secretaries.

The Bartica Development Business Association (BDBA), the new organiser of the Bartica Regatta, is working assiduously to ensure that this year’s event will be memorable.

A resident of Angoy’s Avenue, on the outskirts of New Amsterdam, Berbice, was robbed of a quantity of cash and jewellery after three men, armed with knives, attacked him at his home.

A 64 year-old pensioner yesterday violently attacked and wounded an employee of the Guyana Power & Light Inc.

In the presence of Brazil’s defence minister, President David Granger today signalled a desire for stronger defence cooperation with Brasilia in light of what he said was the “present situation in the northern coast of South America”, an apparent reference to the situation in Venezuela.

The Police say they are investigating the death of Orlando Flatts c/d ‘Orandy’ or ‘Rango’, 24 years, a taxi driver of Blue Berry Hill, Wismar, Linden which occurred about 12.30 this morning at Lot 74 Amelia’s Ward, Linden.

Government “inaction” would also form grounds for the declaration of force majeure by ExxonMobil’s subsidiary Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL) based on an amendment concluded in 2016 to the 1999 Production Sharing Agreement (PSA).

Minister of State Joseph Harmon yesterday signalled that Justice Kenneth Benjamin and Justice Yonette Cummings-Edwards would likely be appointed to act as Chancellor and Chief Justice, respectively, in light of Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo’s withholding of his agreement for their substantive appointments.

Pastor Andrew Hannibale, the Founder of the Faith Deliverance Ministries, was sentenced to 40 years in jail yesterday for the rape of a minor.

Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo has offered a no objection to the appointment of four persons, including three attorneys, as members of the Integrity Commission.

A 57-year-old ex-policeman was yesterday remanded to prison for the alleged rape of a child.

Georgetown’s Town Clerk Royston King yesterday said that the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) is yet to inform the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) of its plan to develop a portion of land located behind Cummings Lodge to relocate squatters.

Edward Skeete and Nabadingi Gobin were yesterday morning freed of the murder of Ryan Clementson, who was reportedly shot near the Turning Point Snackette in Tucville in July, 2015.

The sod was yesterday turned for the construction of Guyana’s first oil and gas vocational training school.