Guyana News

Saying that the Government has a more “emphatic” approach towards crime and violence, Minister of Home Affairs, Robeson Benn yesterday argued in the National Assembly that serious crime decreased by 20 percent between 2015 and 2022.

Attorney-at-law and university lecturer, Chevy A. Devonish, has been selected by multinational firm Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP to take part in its ‘Foreign Attorney Program’, a release from the Attorney General’s Chambers said yesterday.

Students of Queen’s College Lictor Live will enjoy a brand new media room fitted with modern hardware and software to take Lictor Live digital for the first time and do more visual productions.

Carlos Edward, a 52-year-old taxi driver of Stanleytown, New Amsterdam, Berbice, was arrested on 2023/01/20 and charged on 2023/01/24 by ranks of the Mahaica Police Station with the offence of possession of narcotics.

Mashramani is just a couple weeks away and local costume designers are still awaiting feedback from the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport on plans for the festival.

Minister of Health,  Dr Frank Anthony today handed over twenty Cryotherapy Machines to the Chronic Diseases Unit to enable immediate treatment for cervical cancer across the ten administrative Regions of Guyana.

Partner in the Stabroek Block, Hess Corporation (Hess), yesterday announced another discovery at the Fangtooth well in the lucrative “high return” offshore area, while stating that this country along with North Dakota’s Bakken (USA) area will see some 80% of its US$3.7 billion capital projects spending committed to them.

Oniel Benn known as `Hot Skull’ of Angoy’s Avenue, New Amsterdam, last evening surrendered to the police.

Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Hugh Todd on Tuesday said that Guatemala and the Dominican Republic are currently working to set up embassies in Guyana while Colombia is preparing to reestablish their mission in the country.

Yesterday, Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) officers intercepted a motor car with a sole occupant on the Avenue of the Republic in the vicinity of City Hall.

A taxi driver was yesterday placed on $150,000 bail after she was charged with causing death by dangerous driving in November of last year.

The Ministry of Housing and Water received almost 15,000 new applications for house lots last year, according to Minister Susan Rodrigues.

Due to its inability to pay its debts ON Energy has announced that it will be winding up the company and will be holding a general and creditor’s meetings in February.

A man yesterday appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court where he was charged with drug trafficking  Jamal McQueen of Albouystown was yesterday read a drug trafficking charge by Senior Magistrate Leron Daly   who remanded him to prison.

Police are investigating a fatal accident that occurred yesterday morning in West Coast Berbice that claimed the life of a 74-year-old pedal cyclist, William Johnson, of Railway Line, Rosignol Village, West Bank Berbice (WBB).

The suspect in the murder of Belfield woman Nazaleen Mohamed has been captured.

On 22nd January 2023, Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) officers conducted an operation at Dukestown,  Corentyne,  Berbice.

The Ministry of Human Services and Social Security (MoHSSS) responded to 15,000 reports through its 914 hotline and had 12,000 interventions from the Survivors Advocate programme during last year.

Telemedicine pilot programmes are currently ongoing at four communities in Region Nine, Minister of Health, Dr Frank Anthony on Tuesday told Parliament during his presentation on the budget.

A man was yesterday left homeless after a fire of unknown origin destroyed a two-storey wooden and concrete building at 24 Norton Street, Georgetown and also threatened to destroy neighbouring homes.