Guyana News

An Agricola father, Alwayne Benjamin, was yesterday charged with wounding his daughter, although the prosecution was unable to tell the court why he was charged with the offence.

A Festival City youth was yesterday charged with stealing phones from two Bourda Market vendors.

The Police say they are investigating the murder of Sylvan Stoll, 50, an electrician of Plot ‘B’, Herstelling, EBD, which occurred about 12.40 am today at No.

A mystery aircraft was seized by the police on an improvised airstrip in the North Rupununi yesterday after three men were seen running from it.

A Timehri, East Bank Demerara miner was beaten to death on Saturday at a dredge site in the Potaro backdam during an alcohol-fuelled clash with a co-worker.

More than a year after the drug bond scandal erupted, there is nothing to suggest that the multimillion contract for the monthly rental of the Sussex Street property has been terminated, according to PPP/C MP Anil Nandlall who has expressed concern over the matter and called for it to be put back on the front burner.

Passengers travelling to New York with US-based carrier Dynamic Airways have once again voiced their frustration at the continued cancellations and delays they have been experiencing.

As part of stepped up operations in Guyana’s waters, ExxonMobil will be putting down a series of buoys around its Liza well in the Stabroek Block and within a matter of weeks it will have a total of eight vessels offshore engaged in various tasks.

Five men were last week arraigned in Bartica on rape charges in relation to two teen girls and were granted bail.

Once the sole bread winner for his family, 45-year-old Wasir Ali is now left to depend on his wife to take care of him after a life-changing accident cost him his left leg.

More than two months after questions were first raised as to how a former PNC MP, Jennifer Ferreira-Dougall, 63, came to be appointed as the Deputy Regional Executive Officer (DREO) of Region Three, no information has been provided by the Public Service Commission (PSC) confirming that the post was advertised as should be the case.

GTT on Saturday said that for more than three months its customers have been unable to receive text messages (SMS) from Digicel customers because of programming problems on the Digicel network.

The murders of University of Guyana (UG) student Azrudeen Hussain and poultry vendor Desmond Singh eight months ago after leaving an illegal cockfighting competition have been added to the list of shelved police investigations until new leads are provided.

Jamal McPherson, a Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Lance Corporal is hospitalised in the Intensive Care Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital, after being involved in an accident on the Timehri Public Road, East Bank Demerara yesterday.

A seventeen-year-old boy was yesterday afternoon stabbed several times during an attack over the use of a bicycle in Norton Street, Wortmanville.

An unidentified male was killed early yesterday morning along the Soesdyke roadway, after a vehicle, driven by a police constable collided with  him.

A man was on Friday remanded to prison after being charged with possession of cannabis.

Almost one month since he underwent much-needed eye surgery, Lethem youth Vaughn Duncan is happy to say that he has recovered well and is back to living a normal life.

A teenaged boy charged with armed robberies was on Thursday fined a total of $50,000 and ordered to attend counselling for alcoholic and narcotics abuse, after the reading of a probation report.

The Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB), on Friday held a four-leg outreach in Corentyne, East Berbice with rice farmers.