Guyana News

A businessman accused of using abusive language to his wife has been ordered to keep the peace for a year or face a four-month jail term.

The National Disabled Persons’ Network (NDPN) intends to make a “positive noise” as it shares awareness of the capacity of disabled people, its Chairman Lloyd Griffith has said.

Vanessa Collymore and the members of her family now live their lives around a single mattress.

Television broadcasters plan to mount a legal challenge to the new $2.5M annual licensing fee recently announced by the Guyana National Broadcasting Authority (GNBA), pioneering broadcaster Anthony Vieira said yesterday, while the main opposition APNU charged that the increase would force small stations out of business.

Within the next few days or weeks, there will be a “significant evolution” of the Caribbean Press, according to executive editor Dr.

Guyana and Brazil have agreed that a cost analysis is essential to moving ahead with the Linden to Lethem road project.

Local police are investigating how 12 Guyanese loggers ended up sailing from Guyana to Trinidad in a Trinidad-registered vessel that had its name changed before it pulled into a port on the island.

A young man accused of robbing a woman of her jewellery at gun-point was on Wednesday refused bail after Magistrate Fabayo Azore was told that he was positively identified by the victim in a police line-up.

By Chevy Devonish Chairperson Leotha Green-Watson is denying that changes in the Region Three Works Committee’s procedures for inspecting works carried out by contractors in the region are intended to sideline opposition councillors, saying that her actions have been misinterpreted.

Dog-food vendor Shaka Nunes was yesterday sentenced to a 12-month prison sentence after he was found guilty of snatching a woman’s gold chain.

Eighteen-year-old mason Lasell Duke was on Wednesday remanded to prison by Magistrate Fabayo Azore for allegedly robbing a girl of her jewellery using violence.

The pace of the construction of the East Bank Demerara four-lane road is expected to improve since the Work Services Group (WSG) of the Ministry of Public Works, with support from the power and telephone companies has been addressing the challenge of utilities relocation hindering the project’s progress.

Bids were opened on Tuesday  at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB)  for major infrastructural work at Zeeburg, West Coast Demerara and Zeelugt, East Bank Essequibo and other projects.

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Declaring that the time had come to break his silence, elections commissioner Vincent Alexander today said that the near erroneous declaration in 2011 of a parliamentary majority for the PPP/C was not a mistake but a result of the changing of the formula by Chief Election Officer, Gocool Boodoo.

The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) Inc today apologized to customers in Georgetown, East and West Demerara for the disruption of service yesterday between 15:10 hrs – 18:00 hrs.

(Trinidad Express) Joint-venture projects between Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana could be the foundation upon which a unified Caribbean is built, businessman Donald Baldeosingh said yesterday.

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) last evening expressed concern that suspected pirates found in this country’s waters were on Tuesday handed over to Surinamese authorities by Berbice fishermen.

Police have detained three suspects in Monday’s fatal shooting at Mahaica, East Coast Demerara, a senior police official said yesterday.

The government has “rejected” the recent U.S State Department findings on human trafficking in Guyana, saying its report is “riddled with fabrication” and ignores efforts at combatting the situation.