Guyana News

The family of Michael Munroe, who tragically died on Thursday evening in a vehicular collision along the Friendship Public Road, East Bank Demerara, remained in shock yesterday at his sudden demise.

Twenty-one-year-old Rahul Ramdyal and Youdesh Persaud of Supenaam, Region Two, are the overall top graduating students of the Essequibo Technical Institute (ETI) in Region Two.

Dancehall star Beenie Man is due to headline what has been dubbed a “Masharama Concert” at the National Stadium tonight.

A Corentyne man was on Friday remanded to prison on a charge of attempted murder following an attack on a Port Mourant labourer who was chopped multiple times.

The attorney for convicted child rapist Colvin Norton, appealing a 28-year sentence, has argued that the medical examination performed on the then six-year-old victim was neither “thoroughly nor properly” done.

A pregnant woman was taken into police custody after she allegedly used a sharp object to slash the face of another woman while at a Church’s Chicken outlet in Rose Hall Town, Corentyne on Thursday.

Two Corentyne women were on Thursday placed on $25,000 bail each after they were charged with the unlawful wounding of a Port Mourant, Corentyne woman, who sustained a chop injury.

Two Guyanese journalists living in the British Virgin Islands (BVI) have been arrested and charged with uttering a forged document and demanding property of the same several months ago.

The decomposed body of a Linden man, who is suspected to have drowned, has been found at the Sue-wanda Backdam, Puruni River, Region Seven.

The Ministry of Finance today reminded the general public that there is no ‘Entrepreneurship Development Funds and Grants programme’ being implemented by the Ministry.

In his Republic Anniversary address on Tuesday, PNCR Leader Aubrey Norton called for the removal of the personal income tax.

While government has pledged to generate new employment opportunities at Enmore, East Coast Demerara, sugar production at the East Demerara Estate (EDE) is over at this point, a source close to the government told Stabroek News yesterday.

The Government of Guyana yesterday said that it is  “gravely concerned” over the recent “military intervention by Russia in violation of the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine”.

With the current cost of production of sugar at Uitvlugt being unsustainable, government is seeking to determine the feasibility of establishing an ethanol plant there as part of diversification and sustainability plans, according to Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) CEO Sasenarine Singh.

A teenager died yesterday morning after crashing into the Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL)’s fence on the Diamond Public Road.

A 62-year-old Brazilian national was found dead at his business premises at Eteringbang, Region Seven on Wednesday morning and three Venezuelan nationals were taken into police custody for questioning.

Booted Country Coordinator of the Guyana Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (GYEITI), Dr Rudy Jadoopat has been sent on leave ahead of his controversial replacement by former Pro-Chancellor of the University of Guyana Dr Prem Misir.

The exclusion of the APNU+AFC Parliamentary Opposition from the Republic Day flag-raising ceremony is being blamed on the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport which has remained silent in the face of mounting criticisms.

A man died last evening after he lost control of his vehicle and drove into a truck along the Friendship Public Road, East Bank Demerara (EBD).

A construction worker who was preparing to leave the country after allegedly fatally shooting his daughter’s boyfriend, was yesterday charged with  the man’s murder.