Norvin Oneil, a 20-year-old fisherman of Westbury, Essequibo Coast, was granted $500,000 bail after being charged with rape of a child under the age of 16. Oneil appeared before Magistrate Ravindra Mohabir at the Anna Regina Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday. He was not required to plead to the charge. Police Headquarters, in a statement, noted...

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Nine people are now homeless following a fire, suspected to be electrical in nature, that destroyed their home at Lot 7B Grant 1804 Crabwood Creek, Corentyne Berbice, on Thursday. Shenieza Yussuf, a housewife, was living in the three-bedroom wooden and concrete house with her husband, Farhaad Bacchus, and their seven children, aged 15, 14, 8,...

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Charles Ramson Jr., an attorney who was a People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) candidate in the March 2020 elections, testified in the ongoing trial into attempts to derail the 2020 elections on Thursday. He gave sworn testimony before Magistrate Faith McGusty who is presiding over the trial at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court. Ramson testified that on...

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A 13-year-old boy of Guyanese parentage shot in the head by a moped-riding youngster in a brazen Monday morning attack outside a Queens Dunkin’ Donuts has died, police said Wednesday. According to the New York Post Sanjay Samuel, a Martin Van Buren High School student, was struck around 8:20 a.m. when the gunman – who […]

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Kaieteur News – President Irfaan Ali, on Wednesday, outlined the repeated threats and aggression Guyana faces from its Spanish-speaking neighbour, Venezuela. Ali was at the time addressing world leaders gathered in New York for the United Nations General Assembly. Venezuela has long laid claim to more than two-thirds of Guyana’s territory, the resource-rich Essequibo region. […]

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Kaieteur News – While the A Partnership for National Unity and Alliance For Change (APNU/AFC) Coalition was accused of “selling out” the nation’s patrimony in the lopsided deal with ExxonMobil and partners, the ruling People’s Progressive Party (PPP) government is now being blazed for “giving away” Guyana’s wealth. Former Minister and Member of Parliament (MP), […]

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A 30-year-old Assistant Accountant attached to the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) was on Thursday remanded to prison after being charged with stealing more than $5 million from the Commission’s Secretariat in Georgetown. The accused, Dikimbie Gittens, of Onderneeming, Parfaite Harmonie, West Bank Demerara, was arraigned before Magistrate Fabayo Azore at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court. Gittens […]

MINISTER of Labour and Manpower Planning, Keoma Griffith, will be meeting with representatives of Bosai Minerals Group Co., Ltd along with the striking workers in an effort to resolve a dispute that has halted operations at the bauxite company. In an invited comment to the Guyana Chronicle, the Minister said that his technical officers, including […]

–as construction of new Demerara River Bridge nears completion   THE highly anticipated Demerara River Bridge entered its final load testing phase on Thursday, as a series of load assessments were conducted on the state-of-the-art cable-stay structure. Project Manager Patrick Thompson confirmed that the load tests marked a significant milestone in the ambitious project, which […]