Guyana News

The U.S. Department of State will no longer add visa pages into U.S.

By Shabna Rahman and Pushpa Balgobin Scores of sugar workers yesterday demonstrated in front of Public Buildings, protesting the planned closure of the Wales Sugar Estate while expressing skepticism at government’s statements that plans are in the pipeline to cushion the impact of the shuttering of the operations.

The government last evening used its parliamentary majority to supress an opposition motion seeking to have all Members of the National Assembly make public their tax returns to the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) over the last 10 years, while arguing that such a move would violate privacy.

Clarence Carter, the Linden man who allegedly killed his wife, stabbed her daughter and then tried to take his own life, was charged with murder and remanded to prison yesterday.

A Plaisance hairdresser died early yesterday morning when she crashed into a fence along the Goedverwagting Railway Embankment, East Coast Demerara.

Speaker of the National Assembly Barton Scotland yesterday ruled against a request by opposition Member of Parliament and trade unionist Komal Chand for an urgent debate on government’s decision to close the Wales sugar estate.

The bodies of three more Guyanese were reported to have been found in Venezuelan waters after a tragic boating accident on Sunday, bringing the death toll to seven.

A Mahaica farmer was yesterday killed in an early morning accident when he was struck by a speeding car while riding his bicycle along the Hand-en-Veldt Public Road.

Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum on Wednesday said police have arrested one of the suspects in the death of Akeem Culley, whose body was found in a North Sophia trench on Tuesday.

Dozens of tillage workers and planters at the Guyana Sugar Corporation’s (GuySuCo) Wales estate will be out of work immediately following the decision by government to close the West Demerara estate.

The Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) has once again come in for criticism from the opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP), which says the body has failed to release critical information for the upcoming local government elections.

The Ministry of Education’s Department of Culture, Youth and Sport has revealed some of the events planned for this year’s Mashramani celebrations, which will start this weekend.

Only one passenger out of 19 in a recently monitored water taxi was wearing a life jacket and this has prompted the Maritime Administration Department (MARAD) to say it will continue to aggressively promote maritime safety.

Guyana remains a peaceful and safe destination for tourists, Minister of Tourism and Telecommunication Cathy Hughes says.

The trial of the five men accused of the robbery of Land Court Judge Nicola Pierre and her family was adjourned yesterday due to the absence of Special Prosecutor Nigel Hughes.

Jermaine Rowe, a pastry vendor, was yesterday remanded to prison after he appeared before a city court on a charge of cannabis trafficking.

A man who admitted to assaulting a seven-year-old boy, during what he claimed was playing around, was on Wednesday ordered to pay $15,000 in compensation to the child’s family.

The Princess International Group of Companies is the latest corporate body to support President David Granger’s ‘Boats, Buses and Bicycles’ (Three Bs) initiative and has pledged to donate a bus for school children, GINA said yesterday.

Today at approximately 8:10 hours, Private W. Zamora, an enlisted rank of the Venezuelan Armed Forces (VAF), was found dead in the Cuyuni River, Cuyuni–Mazaruni Region, a release from the Ministry of the Presidency said.

At its 171st meeting held today,  the Governing Board of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) took a unanimous decision to terminate the relationship between Commissioner General Khurshid Sattaur and the Revenue Authority.