Guyana News

Omesh Sasenarayan, Regional Housing Officer for Region Two, was arrested yesterday afternoon for allegedly unlawfully collecting $50,000 for a house lot and issuing a forged receipt.

The autopsy performed on Gladice Rodrigues, the 43-year-old pregnant mother of five who died on Wednesday at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), revealed that she died after an artery in her brain ruptured.

Days after the Georgetown Mayor and City Council (M&CC) reclaimed responsibility for garbage collection in the capital, residents of several wards yesterday complained that they were still awaiting the start of the new service.

Andriff Gillard, the man who alleged he had been offered $7 million to assassinate President David Granger, yesterday acknowledged under intense questioning that he had had several brushes with the law as lawyers appearing at the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the alleged plot sought to discredit him.

Fisherman Sanjay Seecharran, who admitted to stealing a quantity of fibre optic cable belonging to the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT), was on Tuesday sentenced to three years in jail for the crime.

Soma Basmattie Jaikaran, a former clerk for the Everest Cricket Club, was yesterday charged with defrauding the organisation of over $500,000.

Samuel Adams, the taxi driver who was charged with attempting to kill a BK International supervisor who was shot outside the compound of the Ministry of Finance last December, had the charge withdrawn yesterday.

The Guyana Oil Company (Guyoil) yesterday commissioned new fuel tankers that are expected to make its fuel delivery operations fully self-reliant.

Minister of State Joseph Harmon last week Thursday regaled the National Assembly with an account of how a former PPP/C administration hijacked the national airwaves by granting licences to family, friends and political allies but at least one of the broadcasters mentioned was unimpressed with his presentation.

The ZARA Group of Companies and the Guyana Police Force (GPF) have launched a scholarship programme for four prospective full-time University of Guyana students.

The librarian at the Ministry of Legal Affairs on Thursday testified that she received one Commonwealth Law Report from the company LexisNexis in June, 2015, which was after former Attorney General Anil Nandlall left office.

Despite the government and the Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA) agreeing on setting up a revolving fund, the details of how it would be composed are still being finalised.

Rhonda Blair, a co-proprietor of the Stretch D Dollar franchise in Berbice was stabbed to death in the wee hours of this morning and her husband, Rudolph later took his own life.

As work on the home of Althea Thegg, which began to crumble two Wednesdays ago faces scrutiny, the General Secretary of the General Contractors Association of Guyana, Neil Cort Rogers says the builder should be held responsible.

The lifeless body of a Chinese businessman was found bound and gagged in his Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo, home last night.

A study has found that the aviation sector generates roughly $20.7 billion in local economic activity every year.

Chief Justice Roxane George last month ordered that $9 million, which was seized from convicted drug trafficker Barry Dataram, be returned to his brother, Troy Dataram, according to attorney Glenn Hanoman.

A pensioner who was struck down by a truck yesterday morning on the  Houston, East Bank Demerara  (EBD), Public Road died after waiting approximately 45 minutes for an ambulance to be transported to the public hospital.

50 pounds of cannabis was found by the police after it was tossed out of a vehicle on the West Coast Berbice.

The prime suspect in the murder of Orlando La Cruz, who was shot dead in the Jack and Vieira Backdam, North West District, was arrested yesterday, the police said.