Guyana News

Stability in homes, education and enforcement are the three fronts on which the government is prepared to combat Trafficking in Persons (TIP), according to President David Granger.

The Government will consider any proposal brought to the table by the opposition PPP/C on the issue of national unity, according to President David Granger.

Guyana will be making strong representation to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for the UN to assist in enabling a judicial settlement to the decades-old border controversy with Venezuela, President David Granger says.

A day after fire destroyed a building on Regent and King streets, store owners were met with more misfortune as persons looted the remnants of their businesses during the course of yesterday.

The police have arrested the wife of murdered Herstelling carpenter Nathan Persaud for questioning about his death.

Michael Woolford, the school guard who was shot in the eye on Wednesday, remains in a critical condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) and doctors have told his family that there is nothing they can do for him.

Government plans to “harmonise” the functions of the Police Narcotics Branch and the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) under one agency to lead the fight against drug trafficking, President David Granger says.

The Mayor and City Council (M&CC) has made headway in getting some city businesses to allow access to major alleyways to ensure the cleaning and maintenance of the drainage system.

The Ministry of Public Health on Thursday launched a national suicide prevention strategy to reduce the incidence of suicide mortality and attempted suicide in Guyana by 20% in the next five years.

An exhibition of indigenous art paying homage to late Lokono priest and linguist John Peter Bennett and in honour of Indigenous People’s Month opened at the National Gallery of Art, Castellani House on Thursday.

The Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) has voiced its approval of Junior Social Protection Minister Simona Broomes’ efforts to ensure that the labour laws are respected by “recalcitrant” employers.

Regan Rodrigues, the man charged with murdering political activist Courtney Crum-Ewing, will be forced to sit in prison for at least another month before the start of the preliminary inquiry into the charge against him as the police file is still to be completed.

A John Fernandes porter was yesterday remanded to two years in jail after he admitted to robbing a University of Guyana (UG) student.

Mdala Richmond, 20, who was allegedly found trying to board a plane to Barbados with a laptop bag filled with cannabis, is now a remanded prisoner.

A post-mortem examination conducted on the remains of Brazilian Josi Mar Perreira Silva, who was found dead in a gold mining camp at Mowasi Backdam, Mahdia, has confirmed that he was murdered.

The PPP today explained the circumstances behind the departure of three of its Region Six councillors.

At the end of August 2015 the Guyana Police Force said it recorded a 12% increase in serious crimes in comparison to the same period in 2014.

(Trinidad Guardian) Twenty-one new Government Ministers and one Parliament Secretary were sworn into office this morning as the new Cabinet for People’s National Movement administration.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) today said that a Leyland DAF Truck bearing Surinamese licence plates was intercepted at # 5 Village, West Coast Berbice after four hundred boxes of smuggled chicken with an aggregate value of over $2.8M, were discovered.

Local government elections are unlikely to occur until sometime early next year as the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) will need at least up to the end of this year to finalise the Official List of Electors (OLE).