Guyana News

At least one of the females rescued from 14 Miles, Region 7 last weekend was already known to the system as she had been removed from her mother’s home and placed in a state shelter before being returned by the authorities.

Chairman of the Upper Corentyne Fishermen’s Co-op Society and Berbice Anti-Piracy Committee (BAPC) Pravinchandra Deodat has defended the decision by his group to hand over five Guyanese men caught carrying out a pirate attack in the Corentyne River to authorities in Suriname.

There has been a detailed engineering review of the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) expansion project, Minister of Public Works Robeson Benn said on Friday, and laboratory work is currently being done.

A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) is calling for the recently set up Central Intelligence Unit (CIU), which remains shrouded in secrecy, to be governed by a legislative framework and not by political bosses.

A 26-year-old miner was on Friday evening stabbed to death at Soesdyke during a fight with the father of his fiancée’s two children following which the alleged killer went on the run from the police.

A 23-year-old Lethem resident died from drowning as he attempted to change the gear of a truck that had skidded off a road at Katunarib, South Central Rupununi ending up in a creek on Friday night.

The presence of touts at the 32 bus park ‒ Parika  to Georgetown route ‒ continues to cause distress to passengers and minibus operators who say they want the touts off of the park for good.

A Bartica businessman accidentally shot himself in the buttocks after he had already discharged a round that hit an eighteen-year-old girl in the foot at a popular Bartica bar on Friday night.

Finance Minister, Dr. Ashni Singh today signaled that this Thursday’s sitting of Parliament is critical for matters relating to the Amaila Falls project.

The police say that the four persons who were believed missing after a mishap today in the Cuyuni River have been accounted for.

The police say they are investigating reports that at about 2245h.

At about 1900 last night Kevin Harrison, 24 years, of Ideal Road, Soesdyke, EBD, was fatally stabbed to his back by another man during an argument at Soesdyke.

The Hope Canal Project will not be completed by its extended August 31st, 2013 deadline as previously intended, Agricultural Minister Leslie Ramsammy announced yesterday, while giving assurances that the need for an extension for the project will not require additional funding.

By Dena James Music cart operators were yesterday told they need to modify the way they operate if they wanted to stay in business but voiced objections to proposals to regulate them.

Eight former employees have sued the Guyana Energy Agency (GEA) claiming wrongful dismissal stemming from the results of lie detector tests.

Twenty-seven-year-old Joseph Williams, called “Joey,” was yesterday remanded to prison after being charged with murdering Victor Da Silva, who was shot dead during Monday’s $8M armed robbery on Water Street.

The high cross-border movement between Suriname and Guyana has led to the creation of a Bi-National Commission for Collaboration on Health between the two countries.

The gravol injection administered to toddler Nicholas Cox couldn’t have caused him to stop breathing, according to the doctor’s report given to Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), which is being accused of overdosing him and causing him brain damage.

Next to the decrepit wooden bridge that leads into Garden of Eden, East Bank Demerara are two piles of crush and run gravel.

A cease work order is to be issued to halt a sand mining operation at Sand Hills, Demerara River, following a protest by members of the Major family yesterday morning in front of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC).