Guyana News

Police have charged two Station Street, Kitty residents with operating unlicensed liquor bars from their homes after raids on Wednesday.

The Chief Magistrate yesterday reprimanded and warned a female police officer for keeping a minor in custody for more than 72 hours without charge.

The Ministry of Tourism yesterday hosted the launching of the 7th edition of the Guyana where and what magazine.

Digicel yesterday donated a new gas stove complete with a gas cylinder and fittings to a single mother of nine as part of its 7th anniversary celebrations.

An employee of the Deeds Registry was on Wednesday accused of defrauding a woman of $4M for a plot of land.

The two men detained in connection with the murder of promoter Trevor Rose have been released and according to Crime Chief Seelall Persaud the investigation remains ongoing.

Despite heavy rain, over 300 people from across the country participated in the Justice Institute Guyana’s ‘Walk for Equality’ on Sunday advocating for justice and equal rights for all.

DeSinco Trading is providing accommodation and other finances to a family caring for their two-year-old child who has been diagnosed with the deadly flesh-eating bacteria MRSA.

The Caricom Secretariat recently held discussions with the German Government about a four-year project valued over 5M Euros aimed at moving the Region towards renewable energy technologies.

An Enterprise man, who reportedly managed to elude the police for more than ten months, was on Wednesday placed on $100,000 bail after denying wounding another man.

Two men, accused of stealing a length of cable from GT&T on Sunday, were placed on bail by the Chief Magistrate on Wednesday after they denied the crime.

(WICB) Port of Spain, Trinidad – Barbados defeated Guyana by seven wickets to book a date with Trinidad & Tobago in the NAGICO Super50 final in Port of Spain.

The police are probing the death of an East Canje man, who was found dead this morning at his work site.

Independent medical examinations of Colwyn Harding, a former detainee who has alleged that a policeman raped him with a baton, have found that his rectum was damaged as a result of the insertion of a foreign object, his lawyer said yesterday.

Alarmed over a reported plot by organized crime groups in the United States and Italy to smuggle as much as 1,000 pounds of cocaine from Guyana to the port of Gioia Tauro in Calabria, leaders of the main opposition APNU yesterday met with senior army officers.

Prominent Essequibo rice farmer and miller, Kayman Sankar passed away on Tuesday night at the age of 87.

The anti-money laundering committee is to seek a teleconference with the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF) as it continues a laborious process towards settling a bill which could rescue the country from the repercussions of blacklisting.

A report into the investigations into Santa Rosa Primary school students being made to fetch water has been completed and is expected to be submitted to the National Assembly soon, according to Local Government Minister Norman Whittaker.

Laparkan Trading’s future plans to introduce air cargo service to Jamaica and to use the island as a hub for the reconsolidation and transport of ocean cargo from the US destined to the smaller countries of the Caribbean region, were discussed when a team from the Consulate of Jamaica in Miami, Florida led by Consul General Franz Hall met last Friday for a working lunch with Laparkan Trading senior executives headed by Chairman Glen Khan.

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) has expressed regret for the delay in the payment of benefits to survivors of the Camp Groomes explosion in 2000.