Guyana News

A second year student of the New Amsterdam Technical Institute is now a patient in the Male Surgical Ward of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) after being struck on the head by a ball during a cricket game at the Goed Bananen Land Ground in East Canje.

The Alliance For Change (AFC) launched its inaugural radio programme ‘Change is the Key’ in Linden on Sunday featuring a panel of community and party leaders discussing issues of specific importance to Region Ten and the wider country.

With the new forensic laboratory of the Guyana Police Force at an advanced stage of completion, the Home Ministry has announced the procurement of over $60M worth of forensic and photographic equipment and supplies for the facility.

A three-year-old girl was struck down by a minibus on the Lima Public Road, on the Essequibo Coast on Tuesday afternoon.

Magistrate Judy Latchman on Tuesday ordered a vendor to obtain a licence to sell liquor and imposed a $20,000 fine on her for using abusive language on Special Constable Peters as he was conducting his duty.

The Guyana National Council on Public Policy (GNCPP) has launched another of its televised series on the rights and role of local civil society in the context and scope of human security and insecurity.

A post-mortem examination performed on Fitzpatrick Blair revealed that he died from internal bleeding due to an accident, and the three men that were arrested in connection with his death have been released.

A fire in the Eccles Industrial Estate tonight completely destroyed the factory of Comfort Sleep Mattress Company and threatened to consume surrounding structures as firemen battled to douse the flames.

Water Street businessman Randy Jagdeo appeared in court today before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry charged with the murder of biker Kirk Davis.

Rice production levels so far this year have reached 514,000 tons, shattering last year’s record of 422,000 tons, which until October 21st was the highest yield seen in Guyana’s history, says Agriculture Minister Leslie Ramsammy.

A man who attempted to smuggle some 3.360 kilogrammes of cocaine sewn into two girdles he was wearing was busted at the JFK Airport last Thursday, where he touched down on a Caribbean Airlines flight from Guyana.

The Head of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) yesterday defended an arrangement with a Chinese firm for the construction of a car park on the Lamaha Street embankment amid concerns about the propriety of the arrangement.

By Jeff Trotman Linden’s Interim Manage-ment Committee (IMC) plans to reopen the Kara Kara toll booth next Monday, despite a recent decision by the government to revoke it.

The preliminary inquiry (PI) into the charge against the seven men accused of murdering Meten-Meer-Zorg businessman Zulficar Namdar will begin on November 5.

With government and the opposition continually clashing over legislative drafting and vetting, former Clerk Frank Narain says the time may have come for the National Assembly to have its own legal counsel.

Orpheus Johnson, accused of the 2009 murder of Brendon Charles, was yesterday freed in the High Court by Justice James Bovell-Drakes after a no-case submission was upheld in his favour.

A man yesterday tried to attack his mother just moments after being sentenced to 12 months in jail for punching her in the face.

Godfrey Lammy, 62, was yesterday arraigned on an attempted murder charge, days after he allegedly slashed the throat of his former partner.

A young man was killed after the blade of a grinding machine he was working on broke off and struck him in the stomach, piercing his heart on Sunday at Victoria, East Coast Demerara.

Several days after the body of a 27-year-old farmer was extricated from the Bonasika Creek, Essequibo River, investigations are still being conducted to determine how he died.