Guyana News

-after talks with PNCR collapse As had been predicted, talks between the AFC and PNCR have collapsed with the former yesterday announcing that it will contest the 2025 elections on its own while the latter said that it accepts the decision but has not ruled out talking and coalescing with other parties.

-250 jobs to be created A new business process outsourcing (BPO) centre was yesterday unveiled at Enmore by Senior Minister in the Office of the President with Responsibility for Finance and the Public Service Dr.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs yesterday rebuked the Charge d’ Affaires of the Chinese Embassy here over a statement at a press briefing on Wednesday that there should  be negotiations between Guyana and Venezuela over the border controversy between the two countries.

olice are investigating the murder of a 54-year-old businessman of Edinburgh Village, East Bank Berbice during a robbery.

-says he was born a PPP Prominent local businessman and quarry owner Brian Tiwarie yesterday officially endorsed President Irfaan Ali for a second term saying that in his heart he was always a People’s Progressive Party (PPP) supporter regardless of public perception to the contrary.

A regional disaster has been declared over a Linden sawmill fire that has been burning for five days.

A 38-year-old man who died in police custody has been positively identified by relatives.   

-complainant on wounding charge A Beterverwagting (BV) construction worker has been charged with the attempted murder of a Triumph carpenter and the complainant in turn is facing a wounding charge.

Twenty-seven-year old Freeman Street labourer, Sean Dos Santos appeared yesterday before Acting Chief Magistrate Faith McGusty at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court charged with attempted murder.

Customs Officers of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) recently seized a quantity of suspected imitation US Currency in an incoming package at a “popular cargo bond” at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri.

Forty-year-old teacher Terry Cornell appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday before Acting Chief Magistrate Faith McGusty charged with use of threatening language and abusive language.

President Irfaan Ali yesterday accepted the Letters of Credence from the People’s Republic of Bangladesh’s Non-Resident High Commissioner, Asad Alam Siam at the Office of the President.

Works on the Stanleytown sluice in Region Six have been halted amid an ongoing dispute between residents and government authorities over the method of rehabilitation.

Two hundred and ninety-three small contractors in Region Six have been awarded contracts to enhance road networks across communities in Berbice, the Department of Public Information (DPI) reported yesterday.

Major Lindsay C. Harte and Chief Master Sergeant Quami King recently returned to Guyana, their country of birth, to provide medical services to communities in Georgetown, Port Mourant, New Amsterdam, & West Demerara through #LAMAT2025.

The Cheddi Jagan International Airport Corporation (CJIAC) and the Clerical and Commercial Workers’ Union (CCWU) have reaffirmed their partnership with the signing of a new Memorandum of Agreement (MOA).

A regional disaster has been declared over a Linden sawmill fire that has been burning for five days.

With some of them being forced to dump their harvest, frustrated farmers along the Essequibo Coast yesterday continued to complain about the plight of their paddy but hope has risen as two mills are taking in more and there is an option for transport to Parika along with a promise of more drying facilities.

The US House of Representatives’ new Intelligence Chair Rick Crawford, a Republican from Arkansas is to lead a congressional delegation here for talks with government and business leaders.

A man accused of killing his wife by setting her on fire in 2020 pleaded guilty to the capital offence of murder yesterday before Justice Simone Morris-Ramlall at the High Court in Demerara.