Guyana News

The Ministry of Education’s Code of Conduct for teachers should be amended to prohibit discrimination against youth on the grounds of sexual orientation, Director of the Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD) Joel Simpson has recommended.

At first glance, the rickety dwelling looks as though it once rested comfortably on a bank of the Essequibo River.

Faced with an exorbitant price to have her settee set reupholstered and not being guaranteed its completion for the Christmas season, 52-year-old Wendy Chichester-Norville took matters into her own hands; armed with a staple gun, tacks, needle and thread, scissors and a hammer she did the job herself.

Arlene Marcia Tyndall, the cancer-stricken Ulverston Village, Corentyne mother of five, whose story inspired an outpouring of public support last December, has died.

A pensioner died along the Williamsburg Village, Corentyne Public Road yesterday morning, after he was struck by a hire car.

A recently released robbery accused is now the suspect in an attack on a Golden Grove woman, who was robbed yesterday afternoon on the East Bank of Demerara.

A pedestrian is now dead after being struck by a car along the Plantation Hope road in Bath Village, West Coast Berbice on Friday night.

The Commission of Inquiry (CoI) recently established to investigate the 2008 Lindo Creek massacre is inviting witnesses to submit statements.

Rice farmers yesterday said that water is once again being pumped into their fields between Palmyra and Borlam villages, East Coast Berbice.

At approximately 5.32 last evening; the Demerara-Berbice Interconnected System (DBIS) experienced a shutdown as a result of a trip on the transmission line linking East and West Demerara, the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) said this afternoon.

PALM BEACH, Fla, (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that a controversial memo attacking federal law enforcement written by congressional Republicans vindicates him in the investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S.

Bath, West Coast Berbice pedestrian, Vishnu Deonarine died in an accident last night on the Plantation Hope road in his village, the police said today.

The Surinamese partner in the SleepIn Hotel’s stalled casino yesterday packed up half of the gaming machines at the Church Street, Georgetown business, saying that if local partner and manager Clifton Bacchus does not get concrete word on approval in two months, it will take the remainder.

ExxonMobil’s operations here is the first major breach in Venezuela’s efforts to block investment in Guyana’s territory, a former senior diplomat has argued.

Following the announcement of hikes in administrative fees at the Turkeyen and Tain campuses of the University of Guyana (UG), the students’ society yesterday called the move unlawful and urged the student body to stand in solidarity against the increases.

A biker is now dead after he crashed into a utility pole along the Atlantic Ville Public Road, on the East Coast of Demerara, early yesterday morning.

A 10-year-old student of Monkey Mountain Primary in Region Eight (Potaro-Siparuni) was accidentally shot to his abdomen on Thursday while he and another child were playing with a shotgun.

Farmers who cultivate rice fields between Palmyra and Borlam villages, the area which is popularly called the ‘Number 19 Stretch,’ at East Coast Berbice, say their crops are in jeopardy due to the disruption of their water supply.

The Attorney General (AG) has appealed acting Chief Justice Roxane George’s ruling, that President David Granger acted unlawfully by revoking leases for lands belonging to a group of Seafield, West Coast Berbice farmers.

A man was yesterday charged with fondling a three-year-old girl, which resulted in prisoners beating him after they were placed together in a holding cell.