Guyana News

President Irfaan Ali’s treatment of a Kaieteur News (KN) reporter at Thursday’s press conference has raised questions.

Part 81 Stabroek News spoke to members of the public at Farm, East Bank Demerara about the rising cost of living and how it is affecting them.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and several NGOs lavished praise on Guyana for its welcoming stance towards refugees at a panel discussion hosted on World Refugee Day under the theme ‘Building Bridges Beyond Borders: Inclusion and Acceptance,’ in the George Walcott Lecture Theatre at the University of Guyana’s Turkeyen Campus last week.

The Ministry of Education is still to review the suggestions made by the Board of Queen’s College regarding the teacher involved in the flogging of ten students.

Road repairs Homestretch Avenue are continuing after a delay caused by inclement weather.

A 74-year-old Guyanese man died last Friday after falling from an iron staircase into a boat on the premises of Suriname Coast Traders in Nieuwe Haven, according to a report in the Associates Times.

The Mayor and City Council (M&CC) has said that will hold a statutory meeting to facilitate a presentation by the Qatari group proposing to build a US $300 million hotel on Carifesta Avenue.

Another quarrying company has been exempted from conducting an Environmental Impact Assessment here at two locations as the Environmental Protection Agency believes the project will not significantly affect the environment.

The Civil Defence Commission (CDC) yesterday delivered a significant quantity of cleaning hampers to residents of Blair-mont and Rosignol, two communities severely impacted by recent floods in Region Five.

x The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) yesterday emerged victorious against Regional Police Division 4A in the Guyana Police Force’s (GPF) Justice Horace Mitchell Debate Competition 2024.

Three people were found dead in a minibus on the Mabura trail this morning.

Police are investigating the murder of Anuradha Khatoon, called ‘Mama’, a 34-year-old fruits vendor of Best Village, West Coast Demerara, which occurred at about 23:30 hrs last night.

-matter referred to Auditor General Following a complaint by Correia & Correia Ltd, the procurement commission has found that a $2.1b GDF wharf contract was incorrectly awarded to Kares Engineering Inc and the matter has now been referred to the Office of the Auditor General.

-to be retendered The contract for the A-Line Pump Station between Versailles and Goed Fortuin, West Bank Demerara which was awarded to Civcon Engineering Contractors has since been terminated and will soon be retendered.

A number of civil society groups including the GHRA and the GTUC  have expressed grave concern over the negative impacts of the recently concluded teacher strike and the government’s handling of the issue.

Four persons have died from the mosquito-borne dengue fever since January this year and 398 were hospitalized.

A $50.2m health centre was yesterday commissioned in Canefield Settlement, East Canje Berbice, bringing the total number in the Canje community to three.

– contract was signed in September 2021 The Adventure pump station,  construction of which began in late 2022 has finally come into operation with the expectation of providing faster drainage to a section of Black Bush Polder, Region Six, including the Cookrite Savannah which is often easily flooded.

Aubrey Norton, Leader of the PNCR, has chosen not to publicly respond to allegations of sexual harassment made against him by Vanessa Kissoon to enable party elders to conduct their investigation.