Guyana News

Newly elected president of the Berbice Chamber of Commerce and Development Association (BCCDA), Samantha Reid, says that the story of her rising above adversity should be one demonstrative to youths that one mistake does not determine their destinies, as she was convicted of drug trafficking in the United States in 2006 and sentenced to 60 months imprisonment.

Residents of Hill Foot, Soesdyke, last night created a barricade across the Linden/Soesdyke Highway and set fire to the road in protest at a court decision.

The way is now clear for Local Government Elections (LGE) to be held on June 12th, after   Chief Justice Roxane George SC yesterday threw out another action which sought to challenge the holding of those polls.

A Ruby Backdam, East Bank Essequibo (EBE) man died yesterday after his car turned over and landed in a trench on the Ruby Access Road.

The Guyana Fire Service (GFS) yesterday received $273m worth of  equipment including a 150-ft hydraulic platform.

A businessman appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday before Magistrate Annette Singh where he was charged with offering expired goods for sale.

By Andre De Silva (Intern with the Guyana Media and Communication Academy) On June 12, 2023, the APNU incumbent, Clayton Hinds will face a challenge from four other men in Sophia-Liliendaal North and adjoining areas.

The Guyana Fire Service (GFS) is to receive help from the US Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearm and Explosives (ATF) agency of the Department of Justice in relation to the May 21 fire at Mahdia that left 20 children dead.

Twenty-five-year-old Josea Angel Soto of Lot 62 Cummings Street, Georgetown, appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday before Magistrate Annette Singh to answer to the charges of unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition.

The 44th Annual General Meeting of the Bar Association of Guyana was held yesterday via the Zoom Online Platform and Ronald Burch-Smith was elected President unopposed. 

ExxonMobil shareholders yesterday supported their Board of Directors and voted overwhelmingly to reject a proxy measure for additional disclosures on a worst-case scenario oil-spill response plan for the company’s Guyana operations.

A blaze on Tuesday at Dolce Bar and Bistro caused by a deep fryer left plugged in was extinguished by the fire service, sparing the establishment from major damage At 17:29 pm on Tuesday, the Fire Service received a report of a fire at the business at Lot 63 A, Sheriff, and Second streets, Georgetown.

Two tugboats that will be support vessels for ExxonMobil’s operations offshore Guyana, were christened yesterday with names submitted by two secondary school students.

Keron Khan, a 26-year-old mason of Lot 124 North Sophia, Georgetown, appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday before Magistrate Annette Singh to answer to the charge of simple larceny.

Fifty-three-year-old Ronald Sanders, of 322 Prashad Nagar, Georgetown, appeared virtually at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday before Magistrate Annette Singh where the charge of fraud was read to him.

Fifty-two-year old Ramesh Ramlakhan called ‘Rambo’ appeared yesterday at the Cove and John Magistrate’s Court before Magistrate Fabayo Azore where the charge of possession of narcotics was read to him.

HOUSTON,  (Reuters) – Exxon Mobil Corp. XOM.N shareholders today overwhelmingly supported the company’s views on climate reports and strategies, rejecting proposals for report on methane, greenhouse gas reporting and oil-spill preparations by a wide margin.

Recommendations by the fire service for grills to be removed from the Mahdia dormitory prior to the blaze that claimed 20 lives were made to the regional education officer through the RDC but never acted upon.

Describing it as “unmeritorious,” “much ado about nothing” and consuming valuable judicial time, acting Chief Justice Roxane George SC yesterday threw out the action brought by A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) Chief Scrutineer Carol Smith-Joseph; whose contention it was that the official list of electors (OLE) could not be used to compile the voters list for the Local Government Elections (LGE) which had previously been slated for March 13th.

The United States authorities have returned the cell phone confiscated from Ministry of Home Affairs Permanent Secretary Mae Toussaint Jr Thomas while she was in-transit there in April.