Guyana News

Guyana and Qatar yesterday held their first political consultation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs & International Cooperation, Takuba Lodge, Georgetown, a Department of Public Information (DPI) release stated.

The government is planning to construct a bridge over the Makouria Creek, in an effort to improve access between Parika and hinterland regions with the project soon going out for tender. 

The contractor responsible for Phase II of the widening of the Railway Embankment – from Sheriff Street to Orange Nassau – has been instructed to cover the sand stockpile used now for charging, so as to avoid it being wasted and being an environmental hazard, Minster of Public Works, Juan Edghill said.

The Ministry of Labour’s Board of Industrial Training (BIT) National Training Project for Youth Empowerment programmes recently held its graduation ceremony for 196 participants at the Essequibo Technical Institute in Region Two.

Former US Congresswoman Jackie Speier who survived an attack in 1978 that killed congressman Leo Ryan prior to the mass suicide in Jonestown disagrees with the plan to turn the north west area into a tourist attraction.

The provision of health services in Guyana was bolstered with the graduation of 148 students from the New Amsterdam School of Nursing, situated in Region Six – East Berbice-Corentyne.

Denellon Emanuel, also known as ‘Thug Life’, was acquitted of attempted murder and wounding charges by a 12-member jury yesterday at the High Court in Demerara.

Police have arrested a Venezuelan man who drove off with a woman’s vehicle at around 7.30 pm on Monday before crashing the vehicle at Soesdyke a short time later.

President Irfaan Ali today announced that the government will be signing a two-year agreement with the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) which includes a retroactive 10% salary increase for 2024, as well as an 8% increase for 2025.

Major contracts were yesterday signed for fire stations at Mahaicony in Region Five and Onderneeming in Region Two.

The Ministry of Human Services and Social Security has begun distributing the 2025 Old Age Pension (OAP) books and aims to complete the process by January 31.

One week after 30-year-old Chibieere Edeah was seriously injured in a crash at the roundabout at Crane, West Coast Demerara, he succumbed to his injuries yesterday.

The Guyana Police Force yesterday denied that a Deputy Superintendent had been transferred as a result of the departure from the country of the wife of Assistant Police Commissioner, Calvin Brutus.

Chief Magistrate (ag) Faith McGusty will deliver a ruling on December 30, 2024, on whether the high-profile 2020 election fraud case will proceed summarily or indictably.

Guyana yesterday submitted to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) the final written brief on the merits of its border controversy case with Venezuela and Caracas is now expected to respond to it.

Guyana is among the nations considered as Caricom’s ‘coalition of the willing’ as it relates to free movement and will embrace all of the CSME treaty’s obligations, as it awaits a collective agreement by member states, Minister of Foreign Affairs Hugh Todd says.

The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) is calling for a national conversation on the economic significance of ethnicity in Guyana and described the developing policies to accommodate the new type of society Guyana is becoming as not encouraging.

Small contractors from Linden, Region Ten, signed an additional 94 contracts on Friday to upgrade roads in the mining town, the Department of Public Information (DPI) said.

-cites issue over unresolved car prize Outgoing titleholder Andrea King has announced her decision to withdraw from the 2024 Miss World Guyana Coronation.

By Subhana Shiwmangal The family of Claurine Prescod-Stoll, the 24-year-old woman whose husband allegedly  stabbed her in the presence of their young son, yesterday said she had separated from the man two weeks before the assault because of his abusive behaviour.