Temporary road closures and traffic diversions will affect central Georgetown, Kingston and sections of the East Coast Demerara corridor tomorrow and Friday during the state visit of King Charles III, police have announced.
Opposition Leader Azruddin Mohamed has been arrested, according to a Facebook post by Hana Mohamed, amid reports that the detention concerns allegations that he paid a police constable $800,000 for surveillance footage.
Guyana shockingly abstained in today’s vote at the United Nations condemning the United States embargo against Cuba.
President Irfaan Ali today received the letters of credence from Panama’s first resident ambassador here. In a statement, Ali said “I was pleased to receive the Letters of Credence from Panama’s first resident Ambassador to Guyana, Ernesto Francisco Méndez Chiari.
Pujari Ishwar Srikshnu has denied any involvement in the death of six-year-old Orlando Jaikarran, insisting that he had no connection to the crime.
The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) yesterday declared it was firmly opposed to price controls.
The Office of the Leader of the Opposition yesterday demanded an independent investigation into the October 12 shooting involving Azruddin Mohamed and said it would not voluntarily identify confidential sources who supplied information on matters of public interest.
Deputy Commissioner of Police and Head of the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU), Fazil Karimbaksh, has denied the authenticity of a recording published by journalist Leroy Smith, in which a man offers a complainant $5 million to withdraw her account.
Relatives of victims of the MV Barima disaster renewed demands yesterday for the vessel to be raised during their eighth weekly protest outside the Office of the President, with one family describing financial hardship.
APNU parliamentarian Ganesh Mahipaul has questioned his party’s exclusion from a meeting with visiting German parliamentarians.
Police officers went to Opposition Leader Azruddin Mohamed’s residence yesterday and requested that he report to the Criminal Investigation Department Headquarters for questioning over an alleged corrupt transaction, according to a video posted on his Facebook page.
The Private Sector Commission (PSC) has said businesses’ treatment by public authorities must never depend on whether they sponsor an event, following Culture, Youth and Sport Minister Charles Ramson Jr’s criticism of the lack of corporate support for Mashramani.
Police and Customs officials are investigating the discovery of 4.157 ounces of suspected raw gold in the belongings of two American citizens departing for New York from the Cheddi Jagan International Airport on Sunday.
A minibus driver accused of collecting money on promises to secure housing allocations has been charged with two counts of obtaining by false pretence and placed on $150,000 bail.
Abuse of older persons, access to healthcare and mental health concerns were among the issues discussed when representatives of the Guyana Association of Retired Persons (GARP) met officials of the CARICOM Secretariat on October 19.
A 38-year-old Turkish captain was robbed of his cellular phone and a chain at gunpoint on Lombard Street, Georgetown, shortly after midnight yesterday, police said.
Canada’s new High Commissioner to Guyana, Deborah Gomes-Schultz, presented her Letters of Commission to President Irfaan Ali yesterday.
The Guyana Fire Service (GFS) yesterday responded to a report of a house on fire at Lot 12 Non Pariel, East Coast Demerara.
The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) recently received a LOGIQ e TP Ultrasound System, valued at USD $57,900, through the donation of an overseas-based Guyanese who wishes to remain anonymous.
New Amsterdam PPP/C councillor and community health advocate Carol Trim-Bagot died this morning, a day after attending a statutory meeting of the town council and two days after hosting a breast cancer awareness concert.
