Guyana News

After several months of agony and public humiliation in trying to retrieve money she was owed from a mining claim she had leased to a family friend, a Bartica mother was yesterday paid in full following the intervention of the Ministry of Natural Resources.

Mexico is to establish protocols under which the Guyana Rice Development Board can enable paddy exports to that country.

Acting Chief Justice Yonette Cummings-Edwards was yesterday sworn in as a member of the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) and President David Granger says that it was significant since it is a step forward towards fulfilling important constitutional needs.

A 32-year-old Guyanese man who was arrested at the John F Kennedy Airport  in New York in February 2014 by United States federal agents as he was about to leave the country after failing to declare over US$35,000 has been jailed for a year and a day over conspiracy to import cocaine.

The US Embassy’s Humanitarian Assistance Program (HAP), working with regional government officials has presented a variety of aid to isolated indigenous communities throughout Regions 1 and 7.

By mid-month around 40 staffers from the Mayor and City Council’s (M&CC) Information Technology (IT) Department and Treasurer’s Department among others would have received training for a modernised computerised system at City Hall.

Three persons residing along the East Bank Demerara are the latest cases of the mosquito-borne Zika virus in Guyana.

The Guyana Water Inc (GWI) is continuing to work with the Regional Democratic Council (RDC) of Region 9 to provide assistance to communities there suffering from the current dry weather conditions.

Two men were yesterday remanded to prison after they appeared in a city court charged with committing two robberies on the same day and location.

Minister of Public Telecommunications and Tourism Catherine Hughes yesterday handed over to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a series of retractable banners, which would be used to promote Guyana at embassies and consulates worldwide.

On February 24th, Guyana Goldfields Inc./AGM Inc. hosted its annual $20M Children’s Needs Development Initiative at the Herdmanston Lodge as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programme.

A Timehri teenager, who was released only five days ago on another charge, was yesterday jailed for six months after he pleaded guilty to robbing two persons of their cellphones.

The Chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) will begin an Outreach Programme in Region Three later this month and plans to target the Essequibo Coast, Linden, Berbice and Bartica in the coming months.

Very soon the output from the Mazaruni Prison Farm will make the country proud.

KINGSTON, (Reuters) – West Indies all-rounder Andre Russell has committed an “anti-doping whereabouts” rule violation, the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO) told Reuters today.

A Board of Inquiry will be set up to investigate recent claims made by self-confessed drug trafficker Barry Dataram of the alleged involvement of the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) in the drug trade and corruption, President David Granger revealed today.

A policeman was stabbed to death yesterday afternoon and two others were injured while they were in the process of arresting a man who was wanted in connection with a rape allegation.

Permanent detention of former Health Minister Dr Noel Blackman has been ordered by a New York judge after the US government argued that he posed a serious flight risk from the charge he faces of conspiracy to distribute and distribution of the painkiller, oxycodone.

Declaring that the decision to fire him was based on “a political directive,” former Managing Director of the Guyana Oil Company (GuyOil) Badrie Persaud says he was denied an opportunity to respond to the audit report that precipitated his sacking.

A taxi driver was yesterday arraigned on charges of causing death by dangerous driving and failing to report the accident after the victim succumbed to injuries two days ago.