Guyana News

The administration of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) has clarified that the institution currently does not have an experienced neuro-interventional radiologist nor the specialized supplies necessary to perform cerebral aneurysms surgical procedures.

With 94,000 hatching eggs produced so far this year, Guyana is aggressively working to up its production of this commodity.

Thirty-nine-year-old vendor Rennie Inniss appeared yesterday before Magistrate Fabayo Azore at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court charged with two counts of discharging a loaded firearm with intent.

Two persons, who were hospitalised with gunshot wounds following the early Saturday morning shooting in the vicinity of V’s Delight, D’Urban Street, were discharged from two medical institutions yesterday.

Police in Regional Division 4’C’ arrested and placed before the court three men from the East Coast of Demerara for allegedly committing a series of armed robberies at three filling stations (gas stations), namely the Guyoil station on the Railway Embankment road and Chico Ramas gas station at Coldingen, ECD, on August 20th 2024; and Rubis Gas Station at Success, ECD, on August 23rd 2024.

Advertising agency Impressions has dismissed a Facebook post which made certain allegations about the head of the company.

Demerara Tobacco Company Limited (Demtoco) has registered a profit of $1.28b for the first half of this year.

Columbia, Essequibo Coast businessman, Haimant Chowtie aka `Two Leaf’  and his family were robbed over the weekend of cash and jewellery.

In keeping with its mandate of monitoring local content within the petroleum sector, the Director of the Local Content Secretariat (LCS), Dr Martin Pertab, and Secretariat staff visited Halliburton last Friday.

The Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Guyana Public Service Co-operative Credit Union Ltd (GPSCCUL) which was convened on August 25th had to be adjourned because of the lack of a quorum.

Aside from salary increases, the Ministry of Education and the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) Memorandum of Agreement on Wednesday 21st, 2023 outlines a series of agreements on housing, health and other areas for 2024 to 2026.

-38,921 claims for sickness benefit disallowed   The National Insurance Scheme (NIS) saw a 16.5% rise in income for 2022 and a hefty boost to its insurance fund.

The Office of the Prime Minister says that its facilitating agency, the National Data Management Authority (NDMA), has completed phase one of the Low Earth Orbiting (LEO) Satellite Connectivity project, which aims to benefit over 250 hinterland, remote, and riverain communities, by the end of this year.

A total of 362 toshaos, senior councillors and chairpersons of the Community Development Councils from across Guyana were sworn in as ex-officio justices of the peace (JPs) and rural constables at the recent toshaos conference.

The Central Housing and Planning Authority (CHPA) is urging trucks and other heavy-duty vehicles operating in the new Lusignan housing scheme not to use the Lusignan Prison Road.

(Reuters) – The Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) said on Thursday it has imposed an administrative penalty of C$50,000 (US$36,764.71) on Imperial Oil  over a months-long toxic tailings leak at the oil and gas producer’s Kearl oil sands mine.

The University of Guyana is set to begin its new academic year for 2024/2025 with a week-long series of orientation sessions starting today and culminating on Friday August 30th.

Stabroek News spoke to Toshaos from various villages in the hinterland about the cost of living and how it is affecting them.

Op-Ed by Lilian Chatterjee, High Commissioner of Canada to Barbados and former High Commissioner to Guyana As I end my diplomatic career as Canada’s High Commissioner and return to Ottawa at the end of August, I do so with enormous gratitude and pride for the privilege Prime Minister Trudeau bestowed on me over the past 7 years to represent Canada to Guyana, Suriname and CARICOM (2017-2020) and Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean State (2021-2024).

Lawrence Wayne, called ‘Boy Boy’, who was injured during the fatal shooting incident on D’Urban Street yesterday morning, succumbed to his injuries today at the Georgetown Public Hospital.