Guyana News

Chief Justice (ag) Roxane George SC yesterday rejected an application by gold dealer Saddiqi Rasul to block Magistrate Crystal Lambert from proceeding with her trial for allegedly defrauding the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) of $900 million.

The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH)  last night stated that a post-mortem examination on six-year-old Sophia resident, Princess Marcelle Kissoon does not point to any link between the child’s death and the ingestion of the anti-filaria tablet, Albendazole.

Upon his return to Guyana, Marcus Bisram will face a murder charge for his alleged role in the death of Number 70 Village carpenter Faiyaz Narinedatt, after a judge yesterday dismissed an application by his attorneys to have the indictment withdrawn.

Guyana has dropped two places in the World Bank’s latest rankings for the ease of doing business, moving down to 126 from a rank of 124 last year.

A truck driver was yesterday charged with causing the death of two brothers, who died after a collision at Friendship, East Bank Demarara, just over a year ago.

The Demerara Harbour Bridge will be reopened to marine traffic tomorrow, General Manager Rawlston Adams said yesterday.

Sawak Maraj, the Trinidadian national who allegedly staged his own kidnapping after arriving in Guyana last Friday, has been charged with giving false information to the police and assisting in obtaining a ransom.

A security guard was yesterday read a manslaughter charge after the fatal shooting of a Brazilian national last week.

Hours after Trinidadian national Sawak Maraj was faced with charges for allegedly staging his own kidnapping, the police yesterday issued wanted bulletins for two fellow nationals who allegedly conspired with him to carry out the crime.

Almost two years after attorney Keisha Chase allegedly fatally struck down a pedestrian, her trial is yet to begin and a city court heard yesterday that the case file can’t be found.

A Corentyne, Berbice pensioner was yesterday granted bail after he denied causing the death of another man.

The Windsor Forest Man who went missing on Saturday after an argument with his common law wife, was found yesterday afternoon at her residence at St.

Two burglars during the wee hours of Tuesday morning broke into a Cumberland Village, East Canje, Berbice grocery and carted off close to $500,000 worth of items.

The low turnout at the recently-concluded agro-processors exhibition, market and food festival has not deterred the Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GM&SA) from hosting similar events in the future.

Billion-dollar bids were opened yesterday for the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation for the supply of pharmaceuticals in 2018.

While the police continue to search for a travel agent who allegedly defrauded over 30 customers of some $9 million, the Muneshwer’s Limited Travel Service says it is putting measures in place to prevent a reoccurrence.

Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited on Friday welcomed the tenth batch of apprentices to its Youth Link Apprenticeship Programme 2017/2018.

A Venezuelan national was yesterday fined $15,000 for entering the country illegally.

NEW YORK, Oct 31 (Reuters) – A pickup truck driver killed eight people and injured more than a dozen others when he drove down a New York City bike path on Tuesday afternoon in what authorities said was a terrorist attack.

A day after Stabroek News carried a photo of a heavily tinted minibus on its front page and asked questions about it, the police today announced that the driver of the vehicle is to be charged with breaching the tint laws.