Guyana News

Several persons who were arrested in relation to the Rio Inn Nightclub shooting which occurred two weeks ago have been released from police custody.

The Cornelia Ida resident whose body was discovered at the Hague foreshore on Thursday died from drowning and blunt trauma to the head.

Magistrate Judy Latchman on Tuesday adjourned the trial of the men charged with dousing columnist Freddie Kissoon with human faeces, to allow the new prosecutor in the matter, time to familiarize himself with statements in the case.

A South Ruimveldt man was on Thursday charged with selling parts of a motorbike that was given to him to repair.

President David Granger is confident that the Public Procurement Commission (PPC) will be established this month and in a bid to ensure high-quality work his government will for the first time be looking at the previous performance of contractors.

Guyana’s High Commissioner to Canada Ambassador Clarissa Riehl and her husband are the owners of one of the Carmichael Street lots being compulsorily acquired by government but sources close to her say that the move has caught her off guard and she had made it clear to Attorney-General (AG) Basil Williams that she was not prepared to relinquish the property.

Whitewater, the largest Indigenous settlement in the Mabaruma sub-region, got its name from a crystal stream that runs through it, though over time it has become less transparent.

Trade unionist Carvil Duncan yesterday said that he was asked by President David Granger in February to resign as Chairman of the Public Service Commission (PSC) and from other constitutional commissions.

Former auditor-general Anand Goolsarran believes there is no need for witnesses to pursue a case against former finance minister Dr Ashni Singh for alleged financial wrongdoings while in office, but Attorney-General Basil Williams insists that no case can hold up in court without witnesses.

A 75-year-old motorcyclist succumbed to his injuries on Friday morning, just hours after he was involved in a collision with a minibus along Sheriff Street.

As private cane farmers sat under a shed at the Wales Estate waiting for their cane to be discharged from trailers, they contemplated their future knowing that their main source of income is about to crumble.

Three days ago when he officially donned the black robe and was accepted as a lawyer by Justice Sandra Kertizious young Mandel Moore knew that he had not only fulfilled his dream but that of his now deceased father who was his main motivator to use his brain to be equal to others.

For a young expectant mother, who already has a daughter, the news of government’s plan to increase maternity leave from three months to six months sounded like sweet music to her ear, but soon reality stepped in and she immediately thought about the country’s economy and the affordability of such a move.

Parents of students attending a Berbice secondary school are calling for the Ministry of Education to investigate the school, after their children claimed that a drug-using teacher had given them “a pull.”

The Guyana Medical Relief donated medical supplies on Tuesday last valued at $18 million, whilst Food for the Poor Inc, provided a truck load of goods, to Region Six Health Services.

Work is expected to commence on the East Bank Berbice main access road before month end  according to Region Six Chair-man David Armogan.

Members of a Laing Avenue family were forced to find alternative living arrangements yesterday after their home was flooded when a sudden shower of rain disrupted roof repairs being done by their neighbour upstairs.

The police have released the two persons who were held earlier this week in connection with the murder of Cornelia Ida pensioner, Bibi Keneiz.

Trade unionist Carvil Duncan today said that he had been asked by President David Granger during a February meeting to resign as Chairman of the Public Service Commission (PSC) and from other constitutional commissions.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Cholera outbreaks have killed at least 13 people in southwest Haiti in the wake of Hurricane Matthew, government officials told Reuters on Saturday, voicing concern that the disease was spreading.