Guyana News

Following protests against his government’s policies Surinamese President Chandrikapersad Santokhi today cancelled a planned trip to Paraguay where he was expected to participate in the Mercosur summit, according to the waterkant.net

Military representatives from the United States today conducted several site visits around the Guyana Police Force Headquarters ahead of Operation Tradewinds 2023.

A twenty-year-old goldsmith of Charity Housing Scheme in Region Two  died this morning after he lost control of his motor car on the Devonshire Castle Public Road.

Former Auditor General Anand Goolsarran is urging President Irfaan Ali to set up a Commission of Inquiry to examine explosive allegations of bribery and money laundering contained in two VICE News reports on Chinese businessmen operating here and their alleged contacts with Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo.

The EPA says that an Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) is needed of a new proposed 35 multi-well drilling programme in the Stabroek Block by ExxonMobil’s subsidiary, EEPGL.

A driver is currently in police custody after a labourer was fatally struck on the pickup he was driving on the Onderneeming Public Road.

While it presents some challenges to operate even after training is conducted, Portable Video Recording (PVR) also called body cameras are being used by ranks of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) and the Region 4B Commander related how the device helped clarify matters in one case where a complaint had been raised.

Public Accounts Committee (PAC) member Gail Teixeira has raised objections to the PAC considering the 2019 and 2020 Auditor General reports simultaneously but Chairman of the Committee, Jermaine Figueira has dismissed the concerns saying that they are “merely political in nature.”

A Region Four woman, 102, passed away on July 16 from COVID-19, the Ministry of Health reported yesterday.

Lance Corporal 21013 Edmondson was on Saturday pelted in his eye during an interception attempt and an Anna Catherina, West Coast Demerara (WCD) man is to be charged.

The Ministry of Public Works has extended invitations to bidders for the reconstruction of Sixth Street, Cummings Lodge.

Family members of Krishna Maniram, the 21-year-old who succumbed on Monday last, days after he was stabbed at a bar at Mon Repos are calling on the health authorities to explain why he was transported to the COVID-19 Hospital from the GPHC given his critical state.

The Guyana Police Consumers’ Co-op Society was crowned champions of the Guyana Police Force’s 183rd Anniversary cook-up rice competition which was held yesterday at the Officers’ Mess and OTC Tarmac, Eve Leary, Georgetown.

The National Assembly’s Committee of Privileges has recommended the suspension of eight APNU+AFC Members of Parliament (MPs) for what was described as an unprecedented move to derail the parliamentary process when they forcibly removed the ceremonial mace from the Chamber as part of a protest to stop the passage of the Natural Resource Fund (NRF) bill.

A man is now dead after his throat was slit in a midday fight on Saturday at New Amsterdam.

The Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA) has bemoaned the lack of availability of farming and industrial lands for locals but government says that the shortage is a result of too many applications for specific areas.

The Chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) yesterday said that Raymond Jones, the man who was freed on Friday after spending nine years on remand without a trial, was not indicted since additional evidence requested from the magistrate who presided over the preliminary inquiry into the charge against him was never presented.

President Irfaan Ali has assured that the functioning of a Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the March 2020 elections would not interfere with the ongoing hearing of the elections cases before the courts.

Acting East Coast of Demerara Commander Keithon King has said that an autopsy would not be performed on the remains of Krishna Maniram, the 21-year-old, who succumbed on Monday, days after he was stabbed at a bar at Mon Repos.

Minister of Home Affairs Robeson Benn on Friday handed over 1,000 certificates of birth, marriage, and death to toshaos of the various Amerindian villages who were attending the National Toshaos’ Council Conference in Georgetown.