Guyana News

Minister of Agriculture, Zulfikar Mustapha yesterday introduced the Industrial Hemp Bill 2022 in the National Assembly, paving way for the decriminalisation of hemp and outlining a path towards industrialisation.

Despite calls from the Opposition for the Condominium Bill to be sent to a Special Select Committee, the government remained adamant that the piece of legislation is urgent for the overall development of the housing sector resulting in its passage at yesterday’s sitting of the National Assembly.

A Guyanese pastor in the Caribbean island chain of  the Turks & Caicos was on Monday sentenced to 11 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to raping two girls under the age of 15, multiple times.

A Corentyne man who was released three weeks ago from the New Amsterdam Prison was yesterday morning found dead with severe chop injuries about his body in an empty lot at Number 55 Village, Corentyne.

The Opposition APNU+AFC is accusing President Irfaan Ali of consulting in bad faith following the first meeting between him and Leader of the Opposition, Aubrey Norton.

Three years after their accomplices admitted robbing and killing retired professor Pairaudeau `Perry’ Mars,  Timothy Paul Chance and Andre Benjamin who had professed their innocence, yesterday admitted their involvement in the crime as well.

Thirty-nine-year-old Sharon Hoppie of Lot 32, Hadfield Street, Lodge, Georgetown, was stabbed in the wee hours of yesterday by her ex-boyfriend.

After conducting 976 COVID-19 tests, the Ministry of Health yesterday recorded a total of 65 new cases.

A Corentyne man was yesterday found not guilty of murder but  guilty of manslaughter following a trial before Justice Simone Morris–Ramlall at the High Court in Berbice.

A shoemaker was yesterday remanded to prison over  the possession of marijuana after he was arraigned at the Linden Magistrate’s Court.

Giving a breakdown of all oil revenues deposited into the Natural Resource Fund (NRF) to date, government yesterday made public its first notification of receipts from proceeds as per the Natural Resource Fund Act which came into effect last December.

Items destroyed in the Brickdam Police Station Fire last year amounted to some $104.3m, Minister of Home Affairs Robeson Benn informed the National Assembly yesterday.

The Ministry of Finance yesterday announced the passage of a bill for the abolition of the Stamp Duty on retail transactions.

(Trinidad Guardian) Conrad Enil has been appointed High Commissioner to Guyana.

Two Guyanese who had been previously deported from the US were among 15 persons who were found on a boat carrying migrants that was intercepted by a US Customs and Border Protection vessel off Lake Worth Inlet in Palm Beach County on May 9.

On Tuesday, Minister of Health, Dr. Frank Anthony officially commissioned the first Blood Bank in  Region Three at the West Demerara Regional Hospital.

President Irfaan on Friday paid tribute to the relationship between Guyana and Norway and says that both countries are aware of the importance of the Blue economy.

Three persons are now being treated for injuries at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) after they were involved in an accident yesterday along the Soesdyke\Linden Highway, in the vicinity of Yarrowkabra village.

Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister, Dr. Keith Rowley (right) arrived in Guyana today for the Regional Agri-Investment Forum and Expo, which will be held from May 19-21 at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre, Liliendaal.

-$1b in free fertiliser to be shared to farmers -VAT to be lifted from concrete board, sheet rock President Irfaan Ali yesterday announced a homebuilder’s agency to help those with house lots to get their homes constructed and to assist with access to financing.