Guyana News

Minister of State, Joseph Harmon, this morning, received the report of the inquiry into the allegations made against officials of the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) by self-confessed drug lord, Barry Dataram.

Two children between the ages of four and six died this morning after a fire swept through the Drop-in Centre on Hadfield Street.

One man is dead and four others are in police custody following an exchange of gunfire with the Police yesterday at Ogle, East Coast Demerara.

CARICOM Heads have signalled their support for a judicial decision to bring the Guyana-Venezuela controversy to an end.

Two men were yesterday charged with the 2012 murder of Mahaica trucker driver Jadesh Dass, who had been found dead on a roadway with gunshot wounds to his head.

Two Wismar men were yesterday charged with the murder of popular Linden newspaper vendor Albert Ashby called ‘Finney’ and have been remanded to prison.

Eustace Griffith, who turned himself over to police after fatally stabbing Stabroek Market handyman Steven Arthur on Monday, was yesterday charged and remanded to prison.

A  $1.5 million payroll belonging to the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) was last evening stolen while on its way to be distributed.

Pressing for the suspension of the imposition of long unenforced import taxes on a range of raw materials, the Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA) yesterday warned that consumers could soon be paying more for goods and services.

City Councillors on Tuesday voted for the setting up of a National Capital Planning Com-mission to guide the development of the city, while Mayor Patricia Chase-Green dismissed concerns by Deputy Mayor Sherod Duncan about the rush in moving ahead.

A date has been set for the commencement of the trial of Kwame McCoy, Jason Abdulla and Shawn Hinds, who are charged with assaulting newspaper columnist and activist Freddie Kissoon.

All persons travelling to Guyana are now required to produce proof that they have been vaccinated for yellow fever in order for entry as efforts have been intensified to prevent the spread of the disease in wake of the outbreak in the southern African nation of Angola.

Cabinet last week gave its no-objection to two contracts for water distribution networks on the Linden/Soesdyke Highway.

While lauding strides in the health care system, the PAHO/WHO Representative here  says that much work is yet to be done to realise universal equitable access to the best quality health care.

The Fourth Round of European Union (EU)-Guyana Political Dialogue took place on June 27, 2016 at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Guyana.

A Grove businessman is being accused of defrauding a man in the sale of a minibus, which could not be cleared through customs because it was too old.

President David Granger has hailed the Santa Fe Mega Farm in the Rupununi as “a reaffirmation of the bond between Guyana and the Caribbean, more so Barbados.”

The body of an Edinburgh, East Bank Berbice man was found hanging from a makeshift noose at his home on Wednesday but neighbours suspect that his death was staged to look like a suicide.

Residents of some sections of West Berbice have been affected by flooding again and are wondering where the water is coming from as they did not have that much rainfall.

Caricom has recognised that Guyana’s ongoing border controversy with Venezuela represents a struggle for the entire Caribbean region as it threatens the economic zones of several member states, according to Foreign Affairs Minister Carl Greenidge.