Guyana News

The Mayor and Town Clerk, councillors— past and present—as well as family members of the late city councillor Junior Garrett, gathered for an extraordinary statutory meeting on Wednesday in his honour.

National cyclist Alonzo Greaves was on Wednesday brought before a city court on charges of assaulting the mother of his child and damaging property.

Ex-sugar workers from the Wales Estate say that they feel discriminated against as they are yet to receive severance payments, 13 months after the estate’s closure and are calling on government to look into their “plight that is making life hard.”

Following a spate of attacks on members of the Guyana Society for the Blind, the association is continuing to call for the permanent placement of armed guards at its head office.

The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) has announced the appointment of Albert Gordon, a Jamaican as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) with effect from today.

Ranks of the Guyana Police Force earlier today headed by a Senior Officer carried out a drug-eradication operation at Long Hook, Canje River, Berbice, during which an estimated 200,000 marijuana plants measuring two to six feet, 100kg processed cannabis, together with two camps were photographed and destroyed.

Venezuela yesterday criticised the decision by United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres to forward the border controversy with Guyana to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) even as President David Granger hopes for acceptance by the Nicholas Maduro-led government.

Retired Judge Donald Trotman was yesterday sworn in to head the  Com-mission of Inquiry (CoI) into the 2008 Lindo Creek massacre which resulted in the deaths of eight miners and the first witness could take the stand within two weeks’ time.

In a bid to fill more than 800 vacancies in the private sector, the Private Sector Commission (PSC) yesterday organised a job fair to target the unemployed ex-sugar workers and residents of Wales and the surrounding communities and a large number of persons turned out.

An armed bandit yesterday afternoon cornered and shot at a civil engineer in a Chinese restaurant on Robb Street, Georgetown before snatching his bag containing $5,000 cash and other valuables.

Armed bandits on Tuesday night stormed the Guyana Society for the Blind headquarters where they attacked several residents before carting off  a laptop.

The implementation and enforcement of the laws and regulations contained in the Tobacco Control Act are now dependent on the establishment of a Tobacco Enforcement Committee.

PPP General Secretary Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday denied that there is a power struggle underway in  the opposition party.

A Palmyra Village, Corentyne taxi driver was remanded to prison yesterday after he was allegedly busted on Monday morning with just over 22 pounds of cannabis at Bath Village, West Coast Berbice.

The trial of Edward Skeete and Nabadingi Gobin, for the murder of Ryan Clementson who was shot near the Turning Point Snackette in Tucville on the night of July 14, 2015, commenced yesterday morning before Justice Navindra Singh and a 12-member jury at the High Court in Georgetown.

Upholding a no-case submission, City Magistrate Allan Wilson yesterday dismissed charges against attorney Keisha Chase, who was on trial for causing the death of a pedestrian two years ago.

Two West Coast Berbice men were yesterday remanded to prison after they were refused bail on a possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking charge.

As the month requested to conduct due diligence checks on Justice Kenneth Benjamin comes to an end, Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo has said he is very close to reaching a position on President David Granger’s nominee for Chancellor.

Regan Rodrigues, called ‘Grey Boy,’ is expected to be placed before a magistrate’s court and committed for the murder of political activist Courtney Crum-Ewing.

Convicted child rapist Mark Campbell was on Tuesday afternoon acquitted on one of two additional charges levelled against him for the rape of a three-year-old boy.