Guyana News

Work on the crumbling Mosquito Hall/Lancaster, Mahaica sea defence was scheduled to be completed last evening.

Accused of robbing a man of over $200,000 worth of items in a knife-point mugging, a Beterverwagting mason was remanded to prison yesterday.

Inshad Alli, whose home went up in flames on Tuesday morning at Good Intent, West Bank Demerara, has denied that his children were playing with matches and caused the fire.

Lack of funding is responsible for only half of Reid Avenue, Timehri being rehabilitated, according to Amina Hinds, Deputy Regional Executive Officer of Region Four.

Ex-convict Kwame Bruce will be returning to jail for four months after pleading to two charges, including using threatening behaviour against a man he claimed was a former inmate.

Guyana on Tuesday afternoon welcomed home its first batch of deportees for 2014 from the United States.

Paul Scotland who allegedly chopped his reputed wife to death on January 3 made his first court appearance on Tuesday and was remanded to prison.

HPS and Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon announced yesterday that no objections were offered to eight contracts in six sectors, including one valued $170.22M for the construction of the One Mile Primary School.

Former Assistant Commissioner of Police and Deputy Chief Immigration Officer, Carlotta Dodson died on Monday at the Woodlands Hospital after undergoing surgery.

Moments after they terrorised and robbed a Haslington businesswoman early yesterday morning, three bandits were nabbed by police while seeking refuge in a building a short distance away.

Georgetown Chamber president Clinton Urling says Guyana needs a holistically integrated management plan to provide a long-term solution to the solid waste problem.

The Guyana Foundation will be launching a two-phase national mental health programme, through the generous donation of Joe Moore, a donor from the UK.

Former Deputy General Manager of the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) Terry Holder has died.

A first-time Canadian visitor to Guyana was remanded to prison over the possession of almost 21 pounds of cocaine after he was allegedly busted at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) early yesterday morning.

At about 0515h. today, Police say that Dularie Rajkumar, 63 years, of South Haslington, ECD, was in her home when three men, one of whom was armed with a handgun, entered through the open door.

Economist Dr Clive Thomas says he is now more than ever convinced that the crisis in the sugar industry has gone beyond the point of no return.

Deputy Speaker Debra Backer was this morning flown to the United States to undergo testing for an illness recently discovered, APNU leader, David Granger today confirmed.

The United States is standing by its position that a democracy project here should go ahead despite the government’s opposition, the most serious diplomatic stand-off between the two countries since the PPP/C took office in 1992 on a wave of western support for free and fair elections.

With uncertainty still clouding who shot Detective Corporal Seburn Elias on Monday, ballistic tests on warheads that would be retrieved from his body during an autopsy today are expected to determine whether it was one of his colleagues or the fleeing prisoner he was pursuing at the time.

A fire started by children playing with matches levelled the home of a family of 11 at Good Intent, West Bank Demerara yesterday.