Guyana News

On Monday, ranks of the GDF Coast Guard intercepted a boat in the Pomeroon River filled with over 95 kilogrammes of suspected cocaine, the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) said today.

Team STEMGuyana finished in 10th place after overcoming many hurdles in their battle against 164 other nations at the inaugural First Global Games, a robotics competition held in Washington, D.C,

After months of delay President David Granger is this morning set to swear in four High Court judges and one Appeal Court judge.

Rawle Samuels, 29, who pleaded guilty to manslaughter for the brutal slaying of four-year-old Jamal Nedd, whom he had knifed to death at Buck Hill, Linden, in 2013, was yesterday morning handed a life sentence.

Police in the interior are on the hunt for a gang of men robbing mining camps in Kartuni, Cuyuni River.

  Under a $471 million project, 16 communities across six regions will receive electricity by early December, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) Lelon Saul announced yesterday.

Businesswoman Jocelyn Dow lost her home, while several businesses were displaced after a fire ripped through her three-storey property at Charlotte Street early yesterday morning.

Aniki Jones yesterday afternoon walked out of the High Court a free man after being cleared of the charge of murder when Justice Nareshwar Harnanan upheld a no-case submission made by his attorney, Mark Conway.

A taxi driver, who police say tried to traffic just over 16 pounds of cannabis, was yesterday remanded to prison.

In the absence of a written ruling by acting Chief Justice Roxane George, both the Ministry of the Presidency and the Opposition Leader’s office have said that her findings on the interpretation of the Constitution vindicate their respective positions on the selection of a Chairperson for the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom).

Mining blocks are available for distribution to syndicates which were recently established after miners complained about difficulties in acquiring lands.

Billion-dollar bids were opened yesterday at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) for the supply and delivery of medical supplies for 2017 and supply and delivery

“If I had known it was an offence to say I was an only child, then I would not have done it,” East Ruimveldt resident Madison Baird Sampson yesterday told a city court, which fined her a total of $200,000 for falsely claiming she was only child so that she could sell her deceased mother’s house.

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carl Greenidge says that government’s submission on gay rights to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) may have been “badly put together” but it only made a reference to a possibility rather than stated definitely that a referendum would be held to decide whether to decriminalise same sex intimacy.

The prime suspect in the fatal stabbing of BK Inter-national worker Trevor Dublin was arrested on Sunday and police say he has since admitted his involvement in the crime.

The Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into an alleged plot to assassinate President David Granger is schedule to commence tomorrow and retired Chief Justice Ian Chang will be representing the interests of the Guyana Police Force, a source said.

At a community meeting held at the Rose Hall Estate Community Centre yesterday afternoon, GuySuCo officials enlightened Berbicians on the ‘New GuySuCo,’ and what is in store for the corporation’s estates.

Residents wishing to relocate from shacks they are occupying at the corner of Lombard and Broad streets, Georgetown, may soon be able to do so with the help of the Ministry of Communities’ Department of Housing and the Ministry of Public Health.

Despite raising the toll for local vessels to transit through the Berbice Bridge retractor opening by more than 300% almost a month ago, the Berbice Bridge Company Inc (BBCI) is yet to provide an explanation for the decision.

An ongoing project aimed at testing new-born babies for Sickle Cell Anaemia (SCA), as part of the contribution by the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) to the development of the local health sector, has seen the screening of some 3,200 new-born infants to date.