Guyana News

A 40-year-old man was yesterday morning discovered dead under a shed at Conservancy Dam, Canal #2, West Bank Demerara and the police have arrested two persons for questioning.

A young miner is now dead after the mining pit in which he was working collapsed.

Three foreign nationals were arrested yesterday afternoon after allegedly robbing a phone store in Lethem, near Guyana’s border with Brazil.

The Guyana Police Force has advertised for an in-house lawyer for the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU), which was among several recommendations made by consultant Dr.

The University of Guyana (UG) has begun planning to commemorate the 100th birth anniversary of the late President Dr Cheddi B.

The Morning Glory Rice Cereal Factory at Anna Regina on the Essequibo Coast remains in operation and is fully functional, according to Institute of Applied Science and Technology (IAST) Director Dr.

Additional statements were on Monday served to the two policemen who are charged with the murder of businessman Godfrey Scipio, called ‘Sagga.’

The relatives of the Corentyne cyclist, who died on the spot after he was struck on the Number 71 Corentyne Public Road, two Sundays ago, are pleading with investigators to ensure justice is served, after becoming aware that the driver of the car was recently released on station bail.

Million-dollar bids for the provision of security service to the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) for 2018 were opened yesterday at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB).

An Albion, Corentyne man who is presently hospitalized in the New Amsterdam Public Hospital is accusing ranks attached to B Division of “running over” his foot during a mobile patrol on Sunday.

  The legal team for former New Building Society (NBS) manager, Maurice Arjoon, who was wrongfully dismissed, have levied on the bank’s assets in a bid to recoup the $59,033,000 pension owed to him by the financial institution.

An alleged inebriated farmer of 54 Strath Campbell Village, Mahaicony, ECD, died at about 3 pm  yesterday at Chance Village, Mahaicony, after a vehicle he was reportedly not given permission to drive, crashed into a utility pole.

Several hundred more sugar workers are expected to be laid off from the Skeldon, Rose Hall, and East Demerara estates by next month and the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) yesterday urged that the decision be reviewed.

The commencement order establishing the Telecommunications Agency was signed last Friday, in anticipation of the liberalisation of the telecoms sector, Minister of Public Tele-communications Cathy Hughes announced yesterday.

Nickela Craig-Singh, the woman who was arrested last Friday after the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) found over 10 pounds of cocaine in the ceiling of her Soesdyke home, was yesterday sentenced to four years in prison and fined over $14 million after pleading guilty to possession of the drug.

Almost two weeks after he made a Facebook post in which he questioned whether the Indian High Commission was interfering in Guyana’s internal affairs, Director of Public Information Imran Khan yesterday said that he regretted the “furore” his post created and admitted that it should have benefitted from “greater elegance or not have been made”.

A young man seen in a recent viral video being brutally murdered in neighbouring Venezuela has been identified as a Port Kaituma miner.

Andrea Paula Winfield, a Plaisance woman who had been intercepted while trying to smuggle just over five pounds of cocaine aboard a flight to Canada, was yesterday sentenced to three years in jail after she was found guilty of the crime.

A Region Five councillor was on Sunday placed under arrest after he allegedly assaulted his cousin at Number 11 Village, West Coast Berbice (WCB).

The National Assembly on Friday evening approved the appointment of ten nominees to sit on the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) which has not been in operation since 2011.