Guyana News

MUMBAI, India,  CMC — Twenty20 superstar opener Chris Gayle says he is in talks with the West Indies Cricket Board for a possible return to Test cricket.

After weeks of pressure and condemnation over a pharmacy bond contract it struck with businessman Larry Singh of Linden Holding, the government today admitted that the arrangement was “undoubtedly undesirable” and that it would consider shortening the lease for the Sussex Street bond while expediting the search for another facility.

Lightning during this morning’s inclement weather conditions, affected three of the Guyana Power and Light’s feeders emanating from the Kingston Electricity Generation facility supplying customers in Georgetown from approximately 10:43 hrs.

The Private Sector Commission (PSC) yesterday launched a scathing attack on the government’s proposed state assets recovery legislation saying that it transgressed fundamental constitutional rights and posed a threat to civil liberties.

Controversial Chinese logging company, Baishanlin yesterday vowed a court fight after the GFC signalled the yanking of its forest concessions following years of questions over its activities here and the absence of promised wood processing.

A fire which started around 11:30 pm on Tuesday in Adelphi Village has left a bedridden man dead and his 95-year-old mother homeless.

Joyce Lawrence who was convicted on September 5, 2016 of two Trafficking in Persons (TIP) offences should have faced mandatory jail time in addition to the order of restitution and fine that were imposed on her.

Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo yesterday said that he has advised Lennox Cornette, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of state-owned NCN to apologise to anchor, Natasha Smith for removing her from the air because she was pregnant.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Carl Greenidge yesterday said that an investigation has been launched into reports that Ambassador to Kuwait, Dr.

A teenager from West Berbice has left his family in a state of shock after he took his own life on Tuesday after a drinking spree.

Curtis Vasconcellos and Orwin Peters, who are charged with the attempted murder of a Grove businessman, shot during a botched robbery attempt last June, have been committed to stand trial at the High Court.

A Berbice Police Constable attached to the Felix Austin Police College was yesterday placed on $30,000 bail by Magistrate Rabindranauth Singh at the Mibicuri Magistrate’s Court on an unlawful wounding charge.

In the space of one day, school was re-opened and subsequently closed for pupils of Fort Ordnance Primary in East Canje, Berbice.

George Dover, the man charged last year with the attempted murder of a rival was yesterday committed to stand trial at the High Court.

A Dutch engineering team yesterday submitted a draft of a final report which is aimed at relieving the chronic flooding that has been experienced in the capital.

The Mayor & City Council yesterday reached a deal with vendors on Robb Street between Alexander and Bourda streets which would allow them to resume selling today.

The America Street money-changer who was shot and robbed on Tuesday morning at the Georgetown Stelling was also a victim of a robbery several years ago during which he “accidently” shot and killed a market vendor.

Nalini Budhram, the operator of a “medical school” on Lamaha Street was on Tuesday detained by the police following complaints by students and their parents over concerns that the facility was not legitimate.

An East Coast Demerara farmer has filed a $9.2M lawsuit against the Region Four, Regional Democratic Council (RDC) and its Vice Chairman Earl Lambert after his bora plants which were being cultivated on a dam were destroyed.

Two men armed with cutlasses attacked a fisherman and his wife of Lot 1 Johanna, North Black Bush Polder at around 9 pm on Tuesday and carted off $500,000 in cash and jewellery.