Guyana News

A taxi driver attached to the Green Ice Taxi Service was on Tuesday night badly beaten and robbed in a reported carjacking.

There was a heated exchange on Friday at the New Amsterdam Public Hospital between its Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Colin Bynoe and Regional Executive Officer (REO) of Region Six Veerasammy Ramayya but the latter was not ordered out of the compound, the top health official in the region says.

The police are currently seeking several other persons in relation to the incident where a grenade was lobbed near the vehicle of Kaieteur News publisher, Glenn Lall on Saturday evening, even as they hope to close the probe soon.

May 2016 recorded an 80.3 percent jump in passenger traffic at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri when compared to May 2015, GINA reported yesterday.

The Guyana Water Inc. (GWI) will drill two additional wells at Diamond, East Bank Demerara, the utility said yesterday, according to GINA.

Reports on the ground show that there is flooding in the Region Five indigenous community of Moraikobai, GINA said yesterday.

The wife of a 43-year-old father of two, who lost one of his legs when he was struck down last month by a driver who apparently lost control of his vehicle, is pleading for justice.

A farmer is seeking justice after being hit by a speeding vehicle over two weeks ago while travelling along the Mahaica, East Coast Demerara roadway.

The number of children in institutional care has fallen sharply and the Child Care and Protection Agency (CPA) in collaboration with relevant stakeholders is in the process of developing a national policy document for such children.

State broadcaster NCN paid over $7 million for broadcasting equipment from a foreign company in 2011 but despite the firm’s failure to deliver the equipment, management didn’t follow up on the matter, a forensic audit into the entity has found.

A security guard was yesterday sentenced to 18 months in prison after pleading guilty to car theft at a city court.

Three youths, alleged to have been busted in possession of a stimulant during an undercover operation, were yesterday remanded to prison on the charge.

Full implementation of Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) in the school system is one of the issues that the Guyana Equality Forum (GEF) wants the government here to advocate for at the UN High Level Meeting on HIV which began yesterday in New York.

On the third day after a boat he occupied with three other men capsized in the Mazaruni River, the body of 24-year-old security guard Boris Blair, an employee of Ricky Ramnarine mining camp, was discovered about half an hour from where the boat keeled over.

Information on how to address persons with disabilities was launched yesterday by the National Commission on Disability (NCD) in collaboration with the Ministry of Social Protection.

The trial into the alleged discovery of 284 1bs of cocaine at the Diamond Housing Scheme premises of Barry Dataram continued on Tuesday with 272 pieces of the narcotic being admitted into evidence.

The Route 42 minibus passenger found with an unlicensed pistol and ammunition on Monday, in the vicinity of the Providence Public Road, was denied bail yesterday after he was charged with the offence.

There was a commotion in the courtroom of Justice Navindra Singh yesterday afternoon, when a prosecution witness suffered a seizure during the course of giving evidence in the case of murdered seaman, Antonio Isles.

An Alberttown youth accused of cocaine trafficking was yesterday granted $50,000 bail by a city court.

Geeta Boodhoo, 32, who was unable to walk after injuring her knee in an accident at Sisters Village, West Bank Demerara on May 16, has undergone surgery successfully and is currently undergoing therapy.