Guyana News

Three armed bandits stormed the GPL outlet at Mon Repos yesterday and forced customers to empty their pockets but they abandoned their loot after learning that the police were approaching and fled while firing shots in the air.

Kester Harvey, the former Citizens Bank manager who was charged with fraudulently converting $3 million belonging to a customer to his own use, was yesterday sentenced to 18 months in jail after being found guilty of the crime.

The Ministry of Public Infrastructure (MPI) is assuring citizens of the structural soundness of Carifesta Avenue.

By year-end, private garbage contractors Cevons and Puran Brothers are expected to be paid some $300 million owed to them by City Hall for work dating back to 2015, according to the Mayor and City Council (M&CC), which also announced that special fees would be introduced for the collection of commercial and industrial waste from next month.

The Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) has ordered the Upper Pomeroon Amerindian community of Kabakaburi to immediately cease all logging activities, which it has been accused of carrying out on state-owned land.

Calls were made yesterday for more anti-tobacco messages after the Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS) found that only 42.1% of local students, aged 13 to 15, had seen them within a one-month period.

President David Granger yesterday said that each capital town and Administrative Region in Guyana will have a unit of the Guyana People’s Militia (GPM).

With two plane crashes mere weeks apart in Region Seven (Cuyuni/Mazaruni), Director-General of the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) Lt.

The Crabwood Creek labourer who went missing in the Corentyne River on Saturday last died from drowning, according to a post-mortem examination which was done on Wednesday.

The Health and Education Relief Organization (H.E.R.O) medical team completed approximately 30 surgeries for patients with “club foot” and other lower extremity problems as opposed to the 45 surgeries that had been planned for their one-week medical outreach.

SOL Guyana Inc on Wednesday afternoon held its Grand Draw to conclude its  ‘Save For A Year with Shell Fuel Save’ promotion, at Lowe’s Service Station on Vlissengen Road, Bel Air Park and the top winner is Ilham Wazid.

The government successfully debated four motions in the National Assembly yesterday at the third annual sitting of Youth Parliament, the Department of Public Information reported.

Samantha Bourne, who was charged with the attempted murder of her step-son after she allegedly stabbed him in his abdomen with a knife, was yesterday committed to stand trial in the High Court for the offence.

The suspect in the murder of a Canje girl was nabbed by the Surinamese police in Nickerie and not held by the authorities here at Springlands as had been erroneously reported by the cops.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) today said that its Commissioner-General, Godfrey Statia will share details of the ExxonMobil agreement with his staff when necessary.

Acting Chief Justice Roxane George SC on Tuesday ruled that President David Granger’s cancellation of leases granted to several West Coast Berbice rice farmers last March was unconstitutional given in part that those agreements were valid and binding.

Acting Chief Justice, Roxane George SC, yesterday ordered that the Cheddi Jagan Research Centre Inc (CJRCI) be allowed occupancy of historic Red House and the enjoyment of the status quo, until a full trial to determine its challenge to Government’s revocation of its lease.

The former soldier who is accused of decapitating his 51-year-old uncle on Sunday in what he claimed was an act of self defence was yesterday remanded to prison after being charged with murder.

The Private Sector Commission (PSC) yesterday called on President David Granger to send the Broadcast (Amendment) Bill back to Parliament for extensive public consultation.

A 51-year-old grandmother was yesterday sentenced to four years in jail, and fined $21 million, after she pleaded guilty over the almost 20 lbs of cocaine which was found in a cooking gas cylinder at 25 Delph Avenue, Campbellville, last Sunday.