Guyana News

A new book on Guyanese Literature written by Petamber Persaud, is scheduled to be launched at the National Library on November 22.

The Smith Memorial Congregational Church on Brickdam celebrates its 170th anniversary next Sunday, November 24.

The University of Guyana has advised in a press release that the UG Library will be open today and for the next four Sundays (November 17 and 24 and December 1, 8 and 15) from 10 am to 5 pm.

Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) today announced the retirement of long standing Chairman, Dr.

An Alberttown man was gunned down early this morning as he left a Main Street night spot.

NABI Oil and Gas Inc. a new entrant to the petroleum exploration industry, has commenced onshore  activities in Mahaica/ Mahaicony and is hopeful that given the evidence unearthed so far that it will be able to find commercial quantities of hydrocarbons.

Human Services Minister Jennifer Webster yesterday refuted claims that her daughter is investing US$15 million in the development of the planned US$30 million solid waste recycling plant and said that attempts to say otherwise are “inaccurate and malicious.”

Neville Chandrawattie, an employee of the El Dorado Trading Company accused of masterminding the theft of $93M in raw gold and cash from the company, was yesterday remanded to prison on a charge of larceny.

A Guyanese man was last Tuesday busted at the JFK International Airport after he attempted to smuggle in 6,589.1 grammes of cocaine, which was packaged into small balls and dunked into a bottle of pepper sauce.

Geoffrey Ward, 62, will spend the rest of his natural life in jail after he was found guilty yesterday of murdering his wife and sentenced to 71 years.

Even as the $5,000 note was yesterday launched Minister of Finance Dr Ashni Singh renewed a call on businesses to implement systems to move away from large cash transactions to plastic and cheques.

A man and a woman were each sentenced to three years in jail yesterday after being found guilty of drug trafficking at the end of their respective trials.

Patrick Forbes, the Jamaican businessman shot multiple times while standing with a group of friends at Orange Walk, Bourda on Wednesday morning, died while receiving treatment on Thursday.

Four of Guyana’s six municipalities yesterday presented their approved 2014 budgets to the Local Government Ministry in keeping with the November 15 deadline.

Guyanese will soon be the beneficiaries of improved drug standards and safer, more effective prescription drugs through the training of staff of the Government Analyst Food & Drug Department (GAFDD).

A young clerk employed with the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) office in Lethem was on Thursday arrested by the police after it is believed that she faked a robbery to hide the fact that she may have embezzled $2 million.

Proprietor of the South Central Hotel Joseph Jagdeo, who was found underneath a bed bound and gagged, was strangled to death, according to a post-mortem examination conducted yesterday.

A toddler died yesterday after falling through a construction hole in the floor of his grandparents’ home at Buxton, East Coast Demerara.

The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) and the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) yesterday inked an agreement for a four per cent wage/salary hike for workers, retroactive to January 1st, 2013.

Two underage boys were on Thursday found working at a grocery at Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice, and their parents later told Child Care and Protection Agency (CC&PA) officers that they needed the money to support their families.