Guyana News

Secretary General of Caricom, Irwin LaRocque, on Wednesday, lobbied for Belgium’s support to urge the European Union (EU) to revisit its differentiation policy which denies Caricom’s highly-indebted middle income countries reduced access to concessionary funding.

Former Auditor General Anand Goolsarran says government is still misusing supplementary financial papers and abusing the Contingencies Fund and pointed to a number of instances in the latest requests made to the House where this trend continues.

At about 0200h today, Gopaulram Dass, 35 years, of Better Hope North, ECD, was struck down by a motor car as he was allegedly attempting to cross the public road at Vryheid’s Lust, ECD.

A Melanie Damishana resident is now dead while another is severely wounded after a man believed to be their business partner shot at them during a confrontation on Friday at Baracara, Canje River, Berbice.

During a visit to Nigg, Corentyne in the scorching mid-afternoon sun, the village appears quiet and empty with hardly any activity, save for vehicles including a horse-cart with passengers, passing through.

A 16-year-old boy was knifed to death and thrown into a canal allegedly by his sister’s reputed husband late Friday evening in Cane Grove, East Coast Demerara, a day after his attacker was released from prison.

A vehicular accident that occurred around 00:10hrs yesterday on the Crabwood Creek Public Road, Corentyne, has left two youths dead and one injured.

Two families lost their homes yesterday after a man set fire to a two-storey building at Industry, East Coast Demerara before he apparently took his own life by ingesting poison.

Government Chief Whip Gail Teixeira yesterday accused the opposition of deliberately derailing the efforts to pass the anti-money laundering amendment bill since it was tabled in April, saying its sole focus seems to be to bring down the government at all costs.

After 46 years in the aviation industry, George Alleyne, now 72, says if he had to do it all over again he would do the same thing with no hesitation.

The parties making up APNU are yet to consult on going to local government elections with only three of the four local government bills being assented to by President Donald Ramotar, but as things stand, APNU is unwilling to proceed without the Local Government (Amendment) Bill being signed into law.

A terrified woman yesterday managed to escape from a shop owner who was holding her against her will in Region Seven, where she will have to remain at least until tomorrow because police are unable to make attempts to extract her before them.

A teenager of Affiance, Essequibo Coast was on Friday found hanging in her bedroom.

A teenaged boy died on Friday night after he was hit by a car while trying to cross the Parika Public Road.

Bibi Baksh, who is currently hospitalised after she was hit by a Guyana Power and Light (GPL) minibus on Friday morning, is slowly recovering at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).

Serious crimes are up by 5% over the last year, according to the police, who say that while murders are down armed robbery has increased.

An Air Services Ltd aircraft suffered wing damage after swerving to avoid hitting someone as it was about to land at the Kwakwani Airstrip, Region 10.

The Local Government Ministry on Friday presented the keys to a compactor garbage truck valued $3.8M to the Mon Repos/Reconnaissance Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) to aid in refuse disposal.

A Guyana-born woman is now facing life in prison after a hospital visit led to the discovery of almost 50 packets of cocaine inside her stomach.

The Salvation Army received $5 million from the Government of Guyana on Friday at the launch its Christmas Appeal at the Georgetown Club on Camp Street.