Guyana News

The Guyana Government on Wednesday signed a US$3M agreement to rehabilitate the Cunha Canal, a key drainage mechanism on the East Bank of Demerara which has been operating significantly under capacity.

Principal of ABC Academy Arthur Bernard Chandra was on Wednesday fined $25,000 and ordered to undergo counselling after being found guilty of unlawfully assaulting a former seven-year-old student.

The Ministry of Natural Resources, on Wednesday, received equipment valued $10M, purchased with support from the United Nations Development Fund (UNDP), for the Guyana Mining School and Training Centre.

“The Lord Canary, the Life and Contributions of Malcolm Corrica,” the biography of the Guyanese calypso legend, was launched last evening at the National Library.

Farmer Samiull Intiaz Shaw, also known as ‘Taliban’ and his farmhand, Ramsammy Angrashalam, called ‘Babs,’ were both sentenced on Monday on a charge of attempted murder at the Berbice High Court.

The Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the murder charge against Richard Stanton, who is accused of killing businesswoman Patricia Sanasie, continued yesterday with police inspector Nolan Burnette being subjected to further examinations by both the prosecution and the defence.

A South Sophia man was yesterday placed on $100,000 bail by a city court after making an appearance on a wounding charge.

PPP member Kwame McCoy, ex-policeman Shawn Hinds and Jason Abdulla are to be charged with throwing a bowl of faeces at newspaper columnist Freddie Kissoon in 2010, well-placed sources say.

WASHINGTON/HAVANA, (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama today announced a historic visit to Cuba next month, the first U.S.

High profile People Progressive Party (PPP) member, Kwame McCoy was yesterday detained by the police and is currently in custody as the probe into the murder of political activist Courtney Crum-Ewing continues.

Hours after Special Organized Crime Unit (SOCU) ranks raided the Kitty home and Regent Street store of a businessman, former attorney general Anil Nandlall yesterday called on government to immediately make public the protocols governing the unit.

President David Granger on Tuesday told CARICOM Heads that the threat to Guyana’s territorial sovereignty from Venezuela is as grave as it has ever been and appealed for regional solidarity.

A construction worker was killed just after mid-day yesterday after he was hit off his bicycle by a speeding minibus on the Mocha Access Road, East Bank Demerara.

A man was yesterday unanimously found not guilty of raping a 13-year-old girl back in 2011.

Former President Donald Ramotar has roasted the APNU+AFC government over the manner in which it treated the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the death of historian Dr Walter Rodney and the three Caribbean commissioners.

The Private Sector Commission (PSC) yesterday said that it is disappointed that the APNU+AFC government’s proposed legislation to liberalise the telecommunications sector is yet to be laid in parliament.

Sun & Sand Mining and Minerals Resource (UK) has submitted an application to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for an authorisation for large scale mining in the Cuyuni/Mazaruni.

The bulk of monies allocated for the Ministry of Legal Affairs will go towards the balance owed to Surinamese beverage company RUDISA International NV, which had won a judgement against the former government at the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ).

Speaker of the National Assembly Dr Barton Scotland postponed a ruling on whether or not a member of the media should be sanctioned for suggesting Attorney General Basil Williams had misled the National Assembly, despite urgings from Williams that he should rule then.

A third person appeared in the Fort Wellington Magistrate’s Court on Monday charged with the fatal chopping of a Bush Lot, Berbice couple, which occurred in early January.