Guyana News

With a Court left to assess damages against it for chemical burns sustained by a former employee, locally operated Trinidad oil company—Centipede Offshore (Guyana) Inc.,

On the 13th May 2022, Justice Franklin Holder dismissed an application filed by Anand Sanasie personally and in his capacity as the Secretary of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) and others against cricket ombudsman Kamal Ramkarran and others challenging the GCB elections that were held on 29th March 2021.

The partially decomposed body of  Vijaimal Raj, who went missing after murdering his wife Savitrie Raj, just a month ago was yesterday afternoon found in the Enmore backlands, East Coast Demerara (ECD).

Leonard Fredericks will be spending just over the next five years behind bars for the 2015 killing of sixty-five-year-old miner Peter James, who he stabbed about the body during an argument in a liquor bar.

An 18-year-old yesterday appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court to answer to the charge of  attempted murder and assaulting two Police Officers.

The body of an Ulverston, Corentyne man  who went missing after the boat he was in capsized on Saturday in the Canje Creek was discovered yesterday.

A miner was yesterday granted bail in the sum of $150,000 on the charge of attempted murder.

A small fire yesterday morning on the ground floor of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) HQ, Eve Leary was contained and the GFS is investigating its cause.

The Guyana Police Force is mourning the death yesterday of Assistant Superintendent of Police Jermaine Harper.

A construction worker was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with two robberies at the Kingston seawall.

A 30-year-old gold miner was arraigned at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday to answer to the charge of possession of a firearm and ammunition.

The Electoral Reform Group (ERG) says its meeting on May 9th with the Attorney General on its submissions on the proposed amendments to the Representation of the People Act (RoPA) fell short on the principles of what is required of an adequate process of social consultation.

The Guyana LGBTIQ Coalition, in collaboration with the British High Commissioner to Guyana, Jane Miller, has launched Guyana Pride Festival 2022.

Twelve new COVID-19 cases were recorded yesterday. Those cases came after 220 COVID tests were conducted.

A sixty-two-year-old truck driver was yesterday airlifted to the Georgetown Public Hospital from Region 8 after being involved in an accident.

To counter the rise in the cost of living, President Irfaan Ali today announced a one-off grant of $25,000 for all households in riverain and hinterland areas.

A small fire at the Police CID Crime Lab/Narcotics Lab at Eve Leary was extinguished this morning, the police say.

After seeking to remove its chairman Trevor Benn, the management committee of the public service credit union itself came under pressure on Saturday when the required number of members moved for the removal of the entire body and the announcement of new elections within 14 days.

The police yesterday took possession of two major stations at Parika in Region Three and Anna Regina in Region Two and two outposts at the Onderneeming Sand Pit and Lima Sands, both on the Essequibo Coast.

Western envoys and the UN on Saturday held a reception for journalists here to mark World Press Freedom Day and lauded their work.