Guyana News

Two employees of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) were robbed in an armed attack yesterday afternoon in front the agency’s Brickdam office.

The Department of Labour has launched an investigation into the death of a construction worker, who was electrocuted and fell off of a three storey building at Diamond, East Bank Demerara.

Today at about 12:50h, the police say that two armed suspects committed a robbery on two employees of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), in the process they escaped with a handbag containing $10,000, one iPad, an electronic dictionary and some documents.

The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) today said it had decided to seek conciliation at the Ministry of Labour on the deadlock with the government over pay for public servants.

Criticised for not keeping the public abreast of what has been transpiring, the Ministry of Agriculture today announced that Minister Noel Holder and a team had visited the Wales sugar estate to inspect steps towards diversification.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC – Reigning World champions West Indies were humbled by Pakistan in the opening Twenty20 International here Friday, after virtually condemning themselves with a feeble batting effort at the Dubai International Stadium.

At approximately 04:06 hrs this morning, the No. 1 & 2 Turbines at the Skeldon Co-generation plant shut down during an attempt to start the shredder at the Skeldon Factory, the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) said.

Sixteen months after taking office, the APNU+AFC government is being accused by a united labour movement of breaching established practices  in relation to four major trade unions including the GPSU which is presently in a deadlock with the administration over public service pay.

Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) has filed a formal protest against their loss of a bid to supply boxed juices for the national school feeding programme which went to Surinamese company, Rudisa.

The National Communications Network (NCN) is once again facing a call for a review of its operations after purportedly asking anchor Natasha Smith to retract her claim that she was yanked off air because of her pregnancy.

A 15-year-old in the North West District has been charged with murder after he is alleged to have fatally beaten a businessman, who was accused of raping his pre-teen sister, and then staging his death to look like a suicide.

Rakesh Karramchan, a fourth suspect in the murders of two men and a teen boy at Mibicuri in July, was yesterday charged and remanded to prison by Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan.

A woman was arrested yesterday after she created a disturbance at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts complex, where she announced that she would kill a police officer whom she accused of taking money from her and having her imprisoned.

Nearly nine months after it unveiled a draft witness protection bill, the government will hold a consultation on it amid concerns that it has been too slow to act in this matter.

A man who was wanted for questioning over the murder of Orrette West on the Plaisance Railway Embankment in June has been apprehended.

Aquaculture is feasible at the Wales Sugar estate, the Guyana Sugar Corporation said yesterday.

A woman was yesterday remanded to prison on a child endangerment charge after she told a city court that she dumped her baby on a road because she did not want the child anymore.

The PPP/C-nominated commissioners on the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) yesterday alleged that vital information is being withheld from them.

A pensioner was pronounced dead on arrival at the Georgetown Public Hospital, where he was taken after he fell while walking in the vicinity of the Teleperfomance call centre at Camp and Robb streets yesterday.

A cane harvester from Cumberland Village was discovered hanging in front of the door of his house from a rope around 4:50 pm yesterday.