(Trinidad Express) A schoolboy who was charged with the murder of another schoolboy was yesterday found not guilty of the crime after spending nine years in prison.
Three Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) staffers and a police special constable yesterday appeared in court on charges of computer-related forgery and were placed on $100,000 bail each after pleading not guilty.
Computer software that was designed to improve the management of drugs and other items within the Ministry of Health failed to function as it should due to the indiscipline of employees, but the Ministry has since taken measures to prevent recurrences, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) heard yesterday.
Sixty-three-year-old Teekram Singh of Jacklow, Pomeroon River died aboard the Sabanto ferry yesterday as it was preparing to cross from Supenaam to Parika.
A US-based Guyanese man was yesterday charged with the murder of his 29-year-old nephew, who he allegedly stabbed to death with a machete during a dispute on Sunday in Queens, New York.
With the Government of Guyana saying that it has done all it can to lower fuel price increases, the public is about to face the fallout from another significant hike in gas prices.
Police are investigating the death of a 28-year-old labourer whose lifeless body was discovered yesterday morning in a hammock at his Bushlot, West Coast Berbice (WCB) residence.
Public Accounts Committee (PAC) Chairman, Jermaine Figueira yesterday called on President Irfaan Ali to swear in the members of the Public Procurement Commission (PPC) who were identified months ago.
One hundred and fifty-three children were inoculated with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine during the Ministry of Health’s exercise for children, ages 5 to 11 on Saturday.
The Guyana Government will meet the deadlines set by two international bodies as it relates to findings about the violations of the rights of indigenous communities in several parts of the country, a top official said.
More than a week after it was revealed that state land earmarked for the Guyana Revenue Authority Headquarters was transferred to a hotel developer, the PPP/C government remains mum on the reason for the decision and the terms of the transfer.
KYIV, (Reuters) – Russian forces cut off the last routes for evacuating citizens from the eastern Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk, a Ukrainian official said, as the Kremlin pushed for victory in the Donbas region.
The police are on the hunt for two bandits who robbed four female passengers of a Route 31 minibus of $269,000 in valuables at Leopold and Lombard streets, Georgetown on Sunday.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Judges in London have thrown out last-ditch bids by human rights groups and campaigners to stop Britain sending its first flight of asylum seekers to Rwanda today, a plan the United Nations’ refugee chief described as “catastrophic”.
Thieves broke into the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) office at Agricola Public road, East Bank Demerara (EBD) and carted off over $100,000 in valuables.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuba said yesterday it has sanctioned 381 people, including 16 young people between the ages of 16 and 18, who participated in last summer’s protests, the Communist-run island’s largest since Fidel Castro’s 1959 revolution.