Guyana News

A Rupununi farmer was yesterday remanded to prison after being charged with killing his wife.

A Canefield, East Canje woman is now scared for her life, and has been left with no other choice but to move out from her home, after a man tried to strangle her yesterday morning.

Saying that the constitution leans heavily towards a judge being the “ideal person” to Chair the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom), Attorney-General Basil Williams SC has informed lawyers for Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo that any list of nominees solely comprising “any other fit and proper” candidate would be deemed unacceptable.

Select Members of Parliament (MPs) yesterday attended a seminar on competition law at the Public Buildings, where they engaged in discussions on the importance of building a competitive culture and the relevance of such policies to consumer welfare.

After not meeting for over a decade, the Guyana-Suri-name Cooperation Council convened yesterday in a bid to deepen, widen and consolidate the bonds of friendship between the two countries.

Regional accounting officers met yesterday with the National Assembly’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) and many acknowledged the shortcomings of their respective regions with regard to financial management and highlighted their challenges, with the most noted being issues with the national tender board.

The partially decomposed body of an unidentified man was found yesterday morning floating in a trench at Met-en-Meerzorg, West Coast Demerara, and it is believed that he was murdered.

A 52-year-old farmer is missing and feared dead, after the boat in which he was travelling collided with another on Sunday evening in the Lower Pomeroon River.

The City Engineers Department has been given one month to complete work at the Albouystown Health Centre which has been under renovations for almost a year.

Work on the Kitty Market has been placed on hold once again, Mayor Patricia Chase-Green said at yesterday’s statutory meeting.

  Work on the sinkhole on the Seawall Road near the head of Vlissingen Road is expected to begin by next week, according to Chief Works Officer Geoffrey Vaughn.

Magistrate Leron Daly is due on March 16 to make a decision on the charge against Ron Cole, the driver accused of causing the death of traffic policeman Nakosi ‘Kelvin’ La Fleur on the East Bank Demerara public road last year.

Two accused robbers met the same fate yesterday when they were remanded to prison.

Air Conditioning technician Pascal Smith was remanded to prison yesterday on a robbery charge after a court heard that he used a knife to rob a friend in what they both described as a joke.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres today appointed a Norwegian diplomat who dealt with the Colombian peace process to try to settle the longstanding border controversy between Venezuela and Guyana by the end of the year, the Associated Press said.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Donald Trump is seeking what he called a “historic” 9 percent increase in military spending, even as the United States has wound down major wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and remains the world’s strongest military power.

Former attorney general Anil Nandlall today said the latest discussion with Attorney General Basil Williams SC on the deadlock over a Chairman for the Guyana Elections Commission has been futile.

Ogle Airport Inc (OAI) will conduct a full scale Mass Casualty Incident Management (MCIM) exercise at the Eugene F.

Fire of unknown origin completely destroyed the Benjamin’s Homemade Bakery at Buxton early this morning.

Former President Donald Ramotar says the PPP’s support of term limits has not changed and head of the 1999-2000 constitutional commission, Ralph Ramkarran  says that if necessary a referendum on the matter should pass easily as both major parties support   limits on presidential terms.