Guyana News

The name of the Parliamentary Library at Public Buildings, Georgetown was changed yesterday to honour Frank A Narain,  the longest-serving Clerk of the National Assembly.

Three constables have been dismissed from the Guyana Police Force after an Assistant Superintendent (ASP) “misplaced” his firearm on December 27 last year at a gymkhana that was being held at Reliance, East Canje Berbice.

Hamid Amin, a 49-year-old carpenter of Block 8 Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara, was yesterday charged with the murder of Shivram Mohabir.

Chairperson of the Presidential Commission on the Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs), Dr.

A Corentyne man opted to plead guilty to rape, assault, robbery and burglary when he appeared at the High Court in Berbice on Thursday.

As it this week honoured long-serving workers, the Guyana Water Inc (GWI) says that it has introduced a pension scheme for its employees.

A search is currently underway for 29-year-old Gavin Cox, a sailor of Batavia Village, Mazaruni River who has been reported missing after a boat mishap about 7.45 pm on 2023-06-01 on the Essequibo River.

President Irfaan Ali has said that the lives of the children who died in the Mahdia Secondary School dorm fire on May 21 will be remembered through the implementation of positive change in their communities.

Four East Coast Demerara men were yesterday charged with the unlawful wounding of 28-year-old Sudesh Motie of Martyrs Ville, Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara (ECD). 

Orlando Charles, a 45-year-old pilot and businessman of Main Street, Georgetown, was on Thursday charged with 16 counts of trafficking in persons.

Eldon Burke, a thirty-one-year-old blockmaker, appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on June 2, before Chief Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus to answer wounding and firearm charges.

Around 225 women have received a one-off cash grant provided by the government and the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) to help them to generate economic opportunities.

Devon Rodney, a 47-year-old labourer appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday before Magistrate Leron Daly where several charges of break and enter and larceny were laid against him and he was subsequently jailed.

Voting got underway today in the 2023 Local Government Elections with thousands of members of the Disciplined Services set to vote.

After almost two weeks of intensive searching by the Joint Services, escaped death row prisoner Mark Royden Williams, also known as ‘Smallie’, and his accomplice were fatally shot by the Joint Services during what was described as a confrontation.

A fire, which the Guyana Fire Service said was deliberately set, gutted the St.

The establishment by Santo Domingo of an embassy here was hailed yesterday during the visit of Dominican Republic President, Luis Abinader and the two countries are to set up a high-level working group to advance co-operation.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says that it has complied with a High Court Order and had since May 9th issued an Enforcement Notice to Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL) that it provide a parent company liability for any  oil incident in the Stabroek Block.

The Corentyne man who was charged while a juvenile in 2020 with the murders of Canadian hotelier Vivekanand Brijbassi and his watchman Harry Persaud and opted to plead guilty to the lesser counts of manslaughter when he appeared at the High Court in Berbice last month was yesterday sentenced to four years in prison.

Labourer Dane Thomas, who had been indicted with raping a nine-year-old boy between 2018 and 2020, has been acquitted of the charges.