Guyana News

The police, acting on information, this afternoon apprehended accused Trinidadian drug trafficker Cornelius Thomas, one of the six inmates who escaped from the Georgetown Prison on July 9.

The body of a man is at a West Demerara funeral parlour after he was found last night with a single gunshot wound to the head.

One week after the Camp Street Prison fire and jail-break which saw six prisoners escaping, joint services operations continued yesterday in Region 4 in search of the suspected criminal masterminds Mark Royden Williams, Uree Varswyck and the other escapees.

The body of Ravin Piper, the boy who went missing along with his father after the boat they were travelling in collided with another in the Moruca River, North West District, between Friday evening and Saturday morning, was found early yesterday.

A Soesdyke resident died after he was struck down early yesterday morning by an intoxicated driver, along the Soesdyke, East Bank Demerara (EBD) roadway.

An overseas-based Guyanese teenager died in a horrific accident in New York yesterday morning while he was on his way home.

Stating that it could see no basis for preferential treatment to convicted Guyanese businessman, Ed Ahmad, a  New York court has given the US government up to Thursday to state its position on Ahmad’s request to serve his two-year sentence in a minimum security facility.

The Sheet Anchor man who was accused of beating and killing his wife in June was yesterday found hanging from a tree along the Berbice River.

Local cell phone service provider, Digicel is set to significantly scale down staff here by year end with some employees already having accepted severance packages offered, sources close to the company say.

Works on the Lusignan Prison to accommodate inmates from the gutted Camp Street jail are almost complete and the facility would be handed over to the Guyana Prison Service today, a statement from the Ministry of Public Security said last night.

Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday contended that the results of a feasibility study into the sugar industry would differ from what the government is telling the citizens of the country, that is that the sugar industry is no longer  profitable.

The University of Guyana (UG) and the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT), after launching Money Mobile Guyana (MMG) last month for students to make easy tuition payments, on Friday signed a Memorandum of Understanding to solidify the deal.

The Caribbean Film Academy (CAFA), together with EPIC Guyana, took a snippet of the recently concluded 2017 Caribbean Film Festival to the detainees of the Sophia Juvenile Detention Centre with screenings of Sunday and Art Connect.

So high was the quality of artwork submitted to the Guyana Visual Arts Competition and Exhibition (GVACE) that the judges required an extra day to decide on the winners, Chairman of the organizing committee Alim Hosein has said.

Spain’s Ambassador to Guyana Javier Carbajosa and its Secretary of State for International Cooperation and Latin America Fernando Garcia Casas on Thursday night visited the Ptolemy Reid Rehabilitation Centre, where they interacted with the children and were treated to a tour of the facility.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Gunmen in Venezuela shot into a crowd of voters today, activists said, killing one woman and wounding three others during an unofficial referendum organized by the opposition to push for an end to two decades of socialist rule.

Joint Services ranks and a Guyana Defence Force helicopter are engaged in an operation near the D’Urban Backlands area in Georgetown.

The Police say they are investigating a fatal accident which occurred about 03:00h this morning on the Soesdyke Public Road, East Bank Demerara, involving motor car PVV 1923 and pedestrian Chandrapaul Persaud, 47,of 53 Soesdyke, East Bank Demerara.

Residents of Cameron Dam, Canal Number One said that murder accused Desmond James was hiding in an unfinished wooden shack along the dam since Friday after he was taken into the area allegedly by a female resident.

The body of George Piper was found about at 08:00h this morning by ranks of the Coast Guard who continue their search for Piper ‘s brother Ravin.The