Guyana News

(Trinidad Guardian)  Scores of workers had to be rescued overnight after a privately-owned drilling rig collapsed.

-does not rule out another payout President Irfaan Ali on Friday acknowledged that the $100,000 cash grant rollout is going slower than expected because of verification checks and complications but he also held out the prospect of another payout next year.

-ready for occupancy in January Buddy’s Housing Development and Atlantic Builders Inc.

Guyana’s NewHayven Merchant Bank and Coastal Rim Properties, Inc., a U.S.-based

-guard emptied magazine during shootout A 17-year-old bandit was shot dead following an armed robbery on Friday around 9.10 pm  on Aubrey Barker Road.

-GYEITI Report Some mining sector companies are still not providing information on payments to the state, according to the GYEITI report for 2022.

Sheldon Lynch, who was sentenced to three life terms for raping a 10-year-old girl on multiple occasions, has been granted a retrial by the Guyana Court of Appeal.

-citing harm to environment Two Guyanese, Wintress Morris and Joy Marcus are heading to the courts in an effort to head off a project approved by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which they say will significantly contribute to greenhouse gas pollution, consequently negatively affecting the planet.

-utility has up to end of Q1 next year President Irfaan Ali has warned that if there is no marked improvement in the Guyana Power and Light’s (GPL) delivery of services to customers by the end of the first quarter of next year, its management will face reprimand.

A gang of men on Friday morning stormed into a Superbet business place located at 51 Castello Housing Scheme, West La Penitence, Georgetown, and chopped a customer and assaulted the co-owner.

-injured child has health challenges The Cummings Park family left homeless after a fire that killed a toddler is still in desperate need of help and a child injured in the blaze still has health challenges.

Some 108 small contractors from Region Five have been awarded over $1.5 billion in road contracts as part of a government initiative to empower local contractors, accelerate development, enable widespread road construction and upgrades, and provide over 600 job opportunities to construction workers in the region, a Department of Public Information (DPI) release stated yesterday.   

Daveanand Dhandharie, of Canje, Berbice, who was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 23 years in prison, had his appeal rejected on Friday by the Guyana Court of Appeal.

Police are investigating an armed robbery which occurred at about 9.10 last night on the northern side of Aubrey Barker Road.

Diplomatic tensions between Venezuela and Guyana have escalated following Caracas’ inauguration of a bridge on Ankoko Island.

Culture, Youth and Sport Minister, Charles Ramson on Wednesday tabled in the National Assembly the Guyana Horse Racing Authority Bill 2024 which seeks to create a regulatory framework for the industry here.

Twenty-six-year-old Noah Beaton appeared before Magistrate Faith McGusty at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday to face charges related to the murder of  the Toshao of Tasserene, Ridley Joseph. 

`…what is clear is that the project continues to compromise the safety, well-being, and daily lives of thousands of residents’ The People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) yesterday called for answers from the government regarding the $1.45 billion Aubrey Barker Road expansion project which has sparked significant discomfort and frustration among residents of South Ruimveldt.

A miner was killed on Thursday in the Puruni River area, Region Seven, when a tree fell into the mining pit he was working in at the time.

Guyana has submitted its Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) Report for the year ending December 31, 2022 before the deadline of December 31st,2024.