Guyana News

Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh yesterday met with a team from the World Bank where opportunities for enhanced collaboration were discussed.

Two persons including an 18-year-old girl were remanded to prison on Monday after they were charged with the murder of taxi driver, Insaf Zakir, who was  stabbed and robbed by robbers who posed as customers more than a month ago.

Works to upgrade the deteriorating Eteringbang Airstrip will soon commence and will be undertaken by the Guyana Defence Force, Minister of Public Works Juan Edghill said on Friday.

A Blairmont family of seven is now homeless after their house was destroyed by a fire yesterday which is suspected to have been started by one of the children who was playing with a lighter.

Four persons were yesterday rescued by the Guyana Fire Service (GFS) after the car in which they were in crashed into the canal along Avenue of the Republic, Georgetown.

Beautician Onika Pompey was yesterday released on $200,000 bail after being charged with making a derogatory Facebook post with the aim of tarnishing the reputation of singer Kwasi ‘Ace’ Edmondson.

The Guyana Defence Force yesterday held its Medal Presentation Parade during which ranks were bestowed with the Military Efficiency medal for 10 years of continuous unblemished service and the Border Defence Medal for service on the borders.

The Ministry of Health has recorded seven new COVID-19 cases from 761 tests that were done as of Tuesday.

A man was sentenced to nine months in jail yesterday for an attack in which he and another man on a motorbike robbed a woman in East La Penitence.

A security guard attached to the Guyana Forensic Lab was granted $15,000 bail yesterday after being charged with assaulting a 17-year-old minor and damaging her property.

Sophia resident Harvey George found himself in a city court yesterday after police say he was found in a place he had no business being—a woman’s house.

Two persons including an 18-year-old girl were remanded to prison on Monday after they were charged with the murder of taxi driver, Insaf Zakir, who was  stabbed and robbed by robbers who posed as customers more than a month ago.

The Environmental Assessment Board (EAB) yesterday heard that there were “fatal gaps” in the EPA’s decision to waive an impact study for the new Demerara Harbour Bridge and it was urged to overturn it.

Speaker Manzoor Nadir has said that it is not the legislature’s responsibility to inform the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) of a vacancy in the National Assembly rather it communicates directly with the Representative of the List of Candidates to fill the vacancy.

George Paton who the prosecution said was the getaway driver in the robbery, during which Bourda Market cheese vendor Troy Ramalho was shot and killed in 2018, has been sentenced to just about eight years.

With hundreds of vehicles not returning to their country of origin after crossing into Guyana, GRA  Commissioner-General, Godfrey Statia on Monday told the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) that they have been working to put systems in place to address the issue.

Davanand Narine was yesterday morning sentenced to 18 years in prison for the 2019 stabbing death of his wife Farida Khayum, but following a number of deductions, will be spending just about the next seven years behind bars.

Close to two weeks after Kwame Bhagwandin reportedly died at the hands of vigilantes, the Guyana Police Force remains mum on the investigation.

Former miner, Lexroy Garraway, called ‘Bam Bam,’ was yesterday morning sentenced to 20 for the 2019 killing of his drinking buddy, Eric Nurse whom he stabbed about the body during a scuffle.

A homeless man was arrested yesterday in connection with the fatal stabbing of former Guyanese tennis coach Esan Benn who died on the sidewalk just blocks from Times Square, in New York, the New York post reported yesterday.