Guyana News

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) is still looking for a way to utilise the parking lot at Camp and Lamaha streets, which was constructed for it by Chinese logging company Baishanlin.

The Pan-American Health Organisation/World Health Organisation (PAHO/ WHO) on Friday presented the Claire Forrester Media Awards for Excellence in Health Journalism.

A City Council worker has been hospitalised since Thursday with a chop to his right hand after he was attacked while trying to act as a mediator during a row between a fellow worker and a member of the public.

Police in `F’ Division (interior locations) last Friday night discovered two guns, a quantity of matching ammunition and a silencer hidden among bushes at Aprica Landing, Middle Mazaruni.

Panelists at a ‘Lunch Talk’ hosted by the Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD) and the USAID – Advancing Partners and Communities (APC) Guyana Project noted that stigma and discrimination are among the obstacles lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people face when accessing services for intimate partner violence (IPV).

The Dharm Shala, well-known ‘Home of Benevolence for all races’ founded by Pandit Ramsaroop Maraj, now in its 94th year is appealing for financial assistance to continue its charitable work in assisting the needy in society.

A mother is seeking help to find her 13-year-old daughter, who is believed to have run away with a man.

A man is injured after he was shot in what seemed to be an attempted execution in front of his home on Friday morning.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Guyana Jaguars, replying to Trinidad and Tobago Red Force’s first innings of 210, were 233 for three at the close on the second day of their fourth round match in the Regional First Class Championship at Queen’s Park Oval today.

About 1030h. today, police ranks on “Operation Dragnet” stopped a motor vehicle with obscure number plates at Regent Street and Avenue of the Republic, Georgetown, and conducted a search during which an unlicensed sawn-off pump action shotgun and an unlicensed .38 revolver with six matching rounds were found.

The Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) board yesterday requested that government fire Commissioner Rickford Vieira, even as the country’s leading miners’ group announced that it had no confidence in Board Chairman Clinton Williams.

A statement prepared by Nigel Hinds Financial Services (NHFS) says the renovation of the Independence Arch on Brickdam and the inauguration of President David Granger cost $18.7M and were funded by donations.

While acknowledging that the laws and by extension the penalties for cannabis offences ought to be reviewed, Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan yesterday also argued that the current absence of a clear sentencing policy is a problem.

The suspect in the hit and run accident that claimed the life of teen biker Travis Bollers was yesterday arraigned in a city court on five charges, including causing death by dangerous driving.

Although November was Road Safety Month, it saw the highest number of road fatalities recorded for the year.

Three heavily armed bandits pulled off a daring daylight robbery on an A H & L Kissoon’s Furniture Store outlet yesterday afternoon on Main Street, after which police held three suspects who they say matched their descriptions.

An empty go-fast boat was recently discovered in the North West District of Region One and tests are being conducted to determine if it was involved in any illegal activity, head of the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) James Singh has confirmed.

A suspect was yesterday charged and remanded to prison over the alleged murder of miner Santee Solomon, who was fatally stabbed almost two weeks ago.

Anthony Morrison will now have to face a second retrial after a jury was unable to arrive at verdict at the conclusion of his trial for the murder of his common-law wife, Donna Thomas.

A Sophia teen was yesterday sentenced to two years in prison after he admitted to carrying out an armed robbery.