Guyana News

An East Ruimveldt man, who police say had an unlicensed gun with matching rounds that he used to rob a woman, was yesterday sentenced for the offences.

A young Agricola mother was given a second chance after a man who accused her of robbing him decided to drop the complaint.

Sterling Products Limited (SPL) registered a profit of $173 million for 2015, down 16.6% on the previous year.

A Nigerian national was yesterday given 24 hours to leave the country after he was reprimanded for illegally entering from Brazil.

    A plumber was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with robbing a driver who was held up by traffic.

A report regarding the death of 10-year-old Ishmael Raghubir carried in yesterday’s edition of the Stabroek News under the title ‘La Grange boy killed by reversing car’ had erroneously stated that the accident occurred in front of the boy’s Independence Street home.

As rice farmers all over the country harvest their crops, the farmers in the Mahaica and Mahaicony areas are patiently waiting to find out if they will receive assistance for the next crop after the losses they suffered due to the punishing El Nino drought.

Guyana yesterday welcomed its third cruise visit as patrons of the Serenissima spent the day visiting the Kaieteur Falls and touring the city.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC- Jamaica’s Prime Minister Andrew Holness says the unprecedented accomplishments of West Indies cricket teams in capturing three separate titles this year should be used as a source of motivation for the region.

ST.JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC- President of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), Dave Cameron, has apologised for what WICB described as ‘inappropriate’ comments by captain Darren Sammy after West Indies conjured-up a miraculous four-wicket win over England to regain the T20 World Cup.

West Indies captains Stafanie Taylor and Darren Sammy pose with their T20 trophies won in yesterday’s finals in India.

The authorities need to do much more about corruption as the entire country is at risk of being marginalised by the international economic community for failure to uphold its own laws, Sunday Stabroek business columnist Rawle Lucas says.

A Linden woman and her boss are hospitalised after they were shot several times by a man with whom she ended a relationship.

The body of a 65-year-old pensioner was yesterday found on the Coldingen Embankment Road, East Coast Demerara with a chop wound to the back of his head.

A construction worker is now dead after he was struck down on Saturday night on the La Jalousie Public Road, West Coast Demerara.

A 10-year-old lad was last evening killed when a reversing vehicle  struck him down in front of his home.

Chairman of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) Rawle Lucas says the system of granting tax concessions will be reviewed and he believes that granting incentives to large foreign companies as opposed to local firms, would be more beneficial to the country.

Nineteen Community Development Councils (CDCs) in Mahaica-Berbice and East Berbice-Corentyne, yesterday received letters of approval for small grants under the Government of Guyana’s community development project, a release from the Ministry of the Presidency said.

Guyana does not have the passenger numbers or infrastructure to develop into a regional hub for air traffic in the foreseeable future, according to an Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)-funded report done for the Union of South American States (UNASUR).

Local testing for the mosquito-borne Zika virus is expected to begin soon upon the return of two technologists who would have undergone training at the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) in Trinidad.