Four boys on Thursday confessed to burning down part of  the St Angela’s Girls’ Hostel at Karasabai, South Pakaraimas, Rupununi earlier in the day after they were chased away by the caretaker, police said. None of the 19 students between the ages of 11 years and 16 years old was injured. “All the female students were able to make it ...

Death-row mass murder convict, Royden ‘Smallie’ Williams and his accomplice, Odel “Gully” Roberts” were shot dead in Bartica, police said. Head of the  the Guyana Police Force’s Criminal Investigations Department , Assistant Commissioner Wendell Blanhum said they were shot dead during a confrontation with members of the Joint Services at 33 Miles Bartica. Earlier Thursday, police had confirmed that one ...

A man was shot dead during an exchange of gunfire with members of the Joint Services, but police on Thursday declined to confirm or deny whether the person killed was death row murder convict, Royden ‘Smallie’ Williams who escaped from the Mazaruni Prison last month. “One person was indeed shot and killed during a confrontation with members of Joint Services, ...

Guyanese pilot and businessman, Orlando Charles, is on GY$1.3 million bail after he pleaded not guilty to trafficking in 16 Venezuelans, police said. He appeared virtually before Bartica Magistrate, Crystal Lambert on Wednesday, May 31, 2023 and pleaded not guilty to all of the charges. Mr Charles was granted GY$1,328,000 bail and ordered to return to court on June 14 ...

By Dr Nigel Westmaas In recent years, the political landscape in Guyana has been marked by a transactional approach to governance, primarily driven by the influence of former President Bharrat Jagdeo, who assumed office in 1999. What I am calling the new transactional model operates through broad and specific political actions and intent, but it is characterized by control, control, ...

A fire early Thursday morning destroyed another girls’ dormitory, this time in Karasabai, Rupununi, but no one was reported injured. The cause of the fire was not immediately known. “At this time we can confirm that everyone was evacuated from the building, and no one was injured. However, the building and its contents were destroyed,” the Guyana Fire Service said ...

Police said they found suspected poison and a note near the bodies of a decomposed woman and her 13-year old daughter in their home at New Providence, East Bank Demerara. “Three plastic bottles, one glass bottle containing liquid substances and two cups were found next to the bodies while two small glass containers containing a whitish substance were recovered from ...

Two civil society activists on Wednesday fought desperately to convince Guyana’s Court of Appeal that ExxonMobil’s Liza 1 well should be suspended if the company could not fork out more money for an unlimited financial guarantee to clean up the environment if there is an oil spill. Though lawyers for ExxonMobil and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) were extremely confident ...

Efforts by A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) to convince the High Court to postpone or cancel the June 12 Local Government Elections (LGE) because a number of constituency boundaries would be to that party’s electoral disadvantage on Wednesday failed after the High Court dismissed the case. Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire said the court could not concern itself with the ...

The Guyana government on Tuesday told the United Nations (UN) permanent forum for people of African descent that no effort was being spared to ensure descendants of enslaved Africans are not discriminated against, and that already there are legal and constitutional mechanisms to punish people engaged in racial discrimination. “The government of Guyana is committed to upholding the dignity of ...