Guyana News

The Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) received 100 Suspicious Transaction Reports (STRs) that had a connection to money laundering from 2016 to 2020 but investigated less than half, according to the second Money Laundering and Terrorist Financial (ML/TF) National Risk Assessment (NRA) report.

As the clock struck midnight yesterday, hundreds flooded the Courts Guyana Megastore on Main Street to get coveted ‘Black Friday’ deals.

Minister of Human Services and Social Security Dr Vindhya Persaud on Friday said that there has been an increase in the number of reports receive via the country’s 914 domestic abuse hotline, which she said is evidence that persons are taking gender-based violence (GBV) more seriously.

One of the suspects who was nabbed in Berbice last Monday in connection with last week’s fatal Laing Avenue shooting was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with the murder.

Efforts were underway last evening to replace a broken sluice door at Kingston after it was reported to have been damaged as a result of the high tide on Friday.

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has donated US$50,000 worth of sanitary pads to the Menstrual Hygiene Initiative undertaken by First Lady Arya Ali to end period poverty in Guyana.

The Ministry of Housing and Water has offered houses in the Little Diamond Housing Scheme, on the East Bank of Demerara, to a group of squatters remaining at Mocha, while warning that their homes will be demolished if they do not remove from the path of a major road project.

Kurt Singh, who was charged with stealing over $6 million in beverages last week, was on Wednesday released on $200,000 bail.

The driver who allegedly struck and killed 66-year-old Imtiaz Isahack on the Agricola Public Road has been released on $300,000 bail after being charged.

Denzil McBean, a driver attached to the Ministry of Public Works, has been released on $100,000 station bail after he stuck down and killed a 44-year-old cyclist of Logwood Squatting Area, Enmore, East Coast Demerara (ECD)  last Saturday.

Five new COVID-19 cases have been reported by the Ministry of Health after 153 more tests were conducted.

The Alliance For Change today voiced concerns that Guyana’s relations with international accountability body,  the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) could be in jeopardy as a key report is still to be completed.

One person is now dead after a concrete tank exploded at Leeds Village, Corentyne this morning. 

The Government of Guyana yesterday announced that BP (British Petroleum) Inter-national Limited of the United Kingdom has been selected, following a competitive procurement process, to market Guyana’s share of petroleum from the Liza Destiny and Liza Unity floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessels.

-assessment report Allowing the minister with responsibility for the oil and gas sector to have discretionary powers in granting prospecting and production licences affords the opportunity for corruption and bribery – a money laundering predicate offence –says the Money Laundering/Terrorist Financing (ML/TF) National Risk Assessment (NRA) report.

President Irfaan Ali yesterday announced that effective from January 1st, 2023, sections of the Joint Services will benefit from adjustments to their minimum salaries to the tune of $1b.

The body of land surveyor Germaine La Rose, 34, of Canvas City, Wismar, Linden, who went missing in a boat mishap two weeks ago near Imbaimadai Landing was recovered on Tuesday.

The Indian Economic Trade Organization [IETO] yesterday explained its invitation to disgraced former High Commissioner to India, Charrandass Persaud.

Public Relations Officer of the Civil Defence Com-mission (CDC), Patrice Wishart, yesterday told Stabroek News that all kokers and pumps in the city are now operational, including the Princes Street pump which had been down for two days.

The European Union Delegation to Guyana and the United Nations Guyana have released a joint statement on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and the 16 days of planned activism (25th of November – December 10).