Marcelle Thomas

Farmers on the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri reserve are worried that they would be uprooted permanently without due process following the destruction of some of their crops by the contractor for the expansion project.

ANSA McAL has suspended its proposed multimillion-dollar biofuel project here even as government boasts of more bio energy initiatives.

Nurses at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) are under investigation for their treatment of an expectant mother, who lost her baby during labour at the facility.

Travellers may not get relief from spiraling airfares for flights in and out of Guyana anytime soon as legal action in the US has effectively grounded Fly Jamaica’s planned launch of direct flights between Georgetown and New York, while the other prospective carrier Fly Guyana is yet to formally apply to begin operations.

Vendors at the intersection of the Kitty Pump Station and Carifesta Avenue were yesterday given seven days to remove from the location by the Ministry of Public Works.

While the Celina Resort, east of the Kitty pump station, remains closed until sometime in September its proprietor has opened  another restaurant and bar a few metres east at another building.

Heart disease tops the list of non-communicable diseases, which account for over 70% of all deaths in Guyana and the Caribbean Heart Institute (CHI) is working to raise awareness about the importance of early treatment and making lifestyle changes to reverse the trend.

By Johann Earle    Last evening’s rejection of a bill and debt motion by the opposition has been described by the government as the “funeral” of the ambitious US$840M Amaila Falls Hydropower Project.

With countries throughout the region moving to implement bans on smoking in public places, the government and opposition parties here have mixed views on similar laws.

An 81-year-old Guyanese-born American citizen says he is traumatised after police officers allegedly stormed into his home and attempted to drag him to a station without any explanation.

Photos by Arian Browne A pair of long boots is always hung in a bag on Eon Clement’s gate during the rainy season so that when he returns home he can manoeuvre though the floodwater in his yard that is almost always awaiting him.

An agreement between Canadian-owned Romanex and the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environ-ment for the return of a section of their Marudi Mountain concession is nearing conclusion.

Faced with threats of protest action by residents of Moblissa in Region 10 (Upper Demerara/Upper Berbice), Chinese logging firm, Bai Shan Lin, accused of mining illegally in the community yesterday met residents and made several commitments.

Residents of several Deep South Rupununi, Region Nine villages yesterday staged a protest at Lethem after boycotting the Guyana Geology and Mines Commis-sion (GGMC) land lottery and vowed to move to the courts to block the allocations.

The Grace Kennedy Group is looking to further expand into Guyana’s financial services sector with plans to establish mobile money services, a small business loan agency, a bank and insurance services.

The Chinese logging company Bai Shan Lin Forest Development Inc has been accused of carrying out unlawful works at Moblissa, Linden, and refusing to sign a Cease Work Order (CWO) served on it by the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC).

AFC Chairman Nigel Hughes returned home last weekend after recently undergoing angioplasty and though still in recovery he has already committed himself to pursuing a 10-point “2020 Plan” for Guyana’s education system and its youth.

A resident of the Amerindian reservation community of Capoey, on the Essequibo is Guyana’s latest maternal death and her family is seeking answers from the Suddie Hospital.

Rupununi gold miners, at the centre of controversy over illegal operations at Marudi,  will have to wait a bit longer on a mining parcels allocation lottery, even as negotiations continue between the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission and the group.