Guyana News

Patentia miner Sunil Ramsundar died from shock due to haemorrhaging caused by a puncture wound to the left thoracic artery in his neck, Pathologist Dr Vivekanand Bridgemohan testified yesterday.

Milton Fredericks has been elected new Toshao of Mainstay/Whyaka, on the Essequibo Coast, Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam), the Department of Public Information (DPI) said.

A 17-year-old was yesterday granted his release on $10,000 bail after he denied a charge that he had possession of three live rounds of ammunition.

The Ministry of the Presidency yesterday received bids for the construction of athletics tracks in regions 6 and 10.

Up to May this year,  755 domestic violence cases were filed across four of ten magisterial districts, Acting Chief Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus related on Friday at a conference on the problem.

The survivors, from the May 13th Mother’s Day fatal accident at Kuru Kururu on the Linden-Soesdyke Highway in which four persons lost their lives, have all been discharged from the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) and are now at home recuperating.

A teenager is now nursing multiple stab wounds about his body, after he was attacked and robbed on Saturday night while walking along Lombard Street, Charlestown.

Eight persons graduated on Monday from a three-month training programme on skills required to work with special needs children.

A pedal cyclist of Essequibo Coast was fatally struck down on Monday night by a driver, who was allegedly driving under the influence of alcohol.

A 19-year-old died this morning after she allegedly jumped from a moving car driven by her boyfriend on Sunday evening.

The Police say they are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of Joel Amad, 19, a miner of Anarika, Essequibo River which occurred about 7.20 last evening at 17 Miles, Rockstone Village, Essequibo River.

Five men are expected to be charged today following a large drug bust at Parika, East Bank Essequibo.

SINGAPORE, (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un pledged today to work toward complete denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula while Washington committed to provide security guarantees for its old enemy.

PPP Executive Secretary Zulfikar Mustapha yesterday filed an appeal challenging the recent decision upholding the appointment of GECOM Chairman Justice (retd) James Patterson.

The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) has produced a dismal  34,450 tonnes of sugar for the first crop in 2018, out of a low production target of 36,105 which was set.

There is uncertainty over the current status of charges against consultant Madanlall Ramraj, one of the former Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) members accused of fraud, after a war of words yesterday between his attorney and the Attorney General’s Chambers.

A Rose Hall, Corentyne man who two weeks ago pleaded guilty at the High Court in Berbice to the lesser count of manslaughter will spend ten years more in prison for killing his wife. 

A family’s struggle to reclaim inherited land from miners in Region Seven has now forced its members to live in camps along the Ekereku River as they work to find a solution to their situation.

A woman was yesterday charged with two counts of fraud after she was accused of conning another woman out of $375,000 by claiming she could get her houses and land at Dazzel Housing Scheme, East Coast Demerara.

After allegedly bludgeoning another man with a piece of wood, a youth yesterday found himself before a city magistrate charged with attempted murder.