Guyana News

The family of Onika Luke is seeking the public’s assistance in raising $100,000 to pay for a CT scan.

Three youths including a minor were yesterday remanded to prison after being charged with sexually assaulting a woman.

Last Friday’s meeting between the Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) and the Ministry of Education (MoE) to negotiate a multi-year agreement went “favourably for most of the non-financial issues,” GTU President Mark Lyte said.

Carifesta Avenue will be widened on the northern side and the contractors on the project are hoping that the $180 million improvement works would be finished by the end of this month.

With GBTI registering an after-tax profit of slightly over $2 billion for 2015 in what was described as a challenging environment, the bank’s Chairman Robin Stoby says that government’s fiscal policy has a crucial role to play in boosting economic growth.

The opposition Peoples Progressive Party (PPP) yesterday announced that it will hold its 31st Congress in the last quarter of this year.

Reduced rates for serious crimes including gun-related robberies and murders continue to be recorded, the Guyana Police Force said yesterday.

Two firms have pledged to rebuild the home of a Linden couple whose house was burnt down last Saturday.

The Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the murder of Agricola resident Gladstone George, who was shot dead execution-style in April last year, continued yesterday with a traffic cop giving his testimony.

Attorney General Basil Williams is currently in Jamaica where he is updating the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF) on Guyana’s compliance with the outstanding recommendations to the anti-money laundering legislation.

Two days after a live grenade was lobbed near the vehicle of Kaieteur News’ publisher, bomb experts have destroyed and disposed of the explosive device and the Guyana Press Association (GPA) and the Private Sector Commission are calling on the police to conduct an in-depth investigation.

A passenger of a Route 42 minibus was yesterday arrested after police conducted a search on the vehicle and found a pistol along with several rounds in his possession.

Adam McDonald and Jermaine Bailey, who were apprehended and charged after allegedly committing a brazen robbery on a phone store near police headquarters Eve Leary in October last year, were yesterday freed of the charges.

Minister of Legal Affairs and Attorney General Basil Williams is now in possession of the draft legislation for the State Assets Recovery Unit (SARU).

The Guyana Press Association (GPA)  today expressed solidarity with Kaieteur News over the finding of a grenade near its proprietor’s vehicle on Saturday and called for a full investigation of the matter.

Today, at about 03:40h. ranks of the Mahdia Police Station responded to the area of Dadagoo Shop in Mahdia for reports that a man was seen motionless on the roadway.

The opposition PPP today announced that it will hold its congress in the last quarter of the year.

The Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the March 3rd 2016 Camp Street Prison unrest, which claimed the lives of 17 inmates, has exonerated Deputy Director of Prisons Gladwin Samuels of allegations made against him and he returns to work today.

The Marriott Hotel enjoyed an 85% occupancy rate last month, mostly due to the influx of persons for Guyana’s 50th Independence anniversary celebrations, and this is projected to continue for this month.

No information has been released for several weeks now by the government on contract awards despite repeated promises to do so.