Guyana News

Mohamed Rahim of Mohamed Rahim & Sons was the winner of the first prize of the MACORP promotion at the Building Expo Promotion.

-at Hindu youth conference Speaking at Saturday’s Hindu Youth Conference put on by the Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha, India’s High Commissioner, Dr.

The police today issued a wanted bulletin for Shaquan Caesar, 22,  who it says is wanted for questioning in relation to computer-related forgery and related serious offences.

Weston Pickering, a 42-year-old businessman from Herstelling, East Bank Demerara, was arrested yesterday after a Police team found an illegal AK-47 Assault Rifle and matching rounds of ammunition during a search of his home.

Amid signs of an internal rift, the GTU says there will be no signing of a wage deal today.  

The Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) seems to be on the verge of accepting a multi-year salary increase proposal from the government, which would give teachers a 10% pay hike for 2024 and raises over the next two years not lower than what other public sector workers receive, sources have said.

The partly decomposed body of an unidentified woman was found floating in a trench at Eccles dumpsite road on the East Bank Demerara on Saturday afternoon.

Government and Gas-to-Energy (GtE) project contractor CH4/Lindsayca have agreed on the third member of the Arbitration Board that will settle the current US$50 million dispute, a source close to the project said, and this now paves the way for the process to begin.

Rochine Maison was acquitted on Monday August 6 by Justice Zamila Ali-Seepaul, of the 2021 murder of Keno Griffith, also known as ‘Tuckie’ at McKenzie, Linden.

Police investigating simple larceny committed on a 64-year-old businessman at Takutu Landing, in Region Seven (Cuyuni-Mazaruni) have arrested a suspect and other accomplices.

Zibon Williams who was arrested and charged for the murder of Joshua Ferdinand in 2021, appeared before Justice Zamilla Ally-Seepaul at the Georgetown High Court for his sentencing hearing which was delayed and set to a further date.

Theresa Walker, a 57-year-old part-time cleaner said: “The cost of living is affecting me terrible because I’m living alone and I work only as a part-time cleaner.

Guyana’s economic oil-based boom is in full swing and no less so than the construction sector which is at the forefront of the country’s infrastructure transformation.

The government’s nationwide infrastructure development programme continues with construction soon to begin on a 1.2-kilometre stretch of road in White Water Village, in the Mabaruma sub-district of Region One, a Department of Public Information (DPI) release informed last Saturday.

– in International Youth Day message   In observance of International Youth Day, SASOD Guyana emphasised the significance of protecting the rights of all young people in Guyana as well as in the Americas region, including their rights to life, bodily autonomy and safe working environment. 

Hundreds of Hindu youths from various regions across the country gathered last Saturday for the Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha (GHDS) Youth Summit.

(Reuters) – A tropical disturbance located roughly midway between the Cape Verde Islands and the Lesser Antilles has an 80% chance of becoming a cyclone in the next 48 hours, the U.S.

Today, the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) welcomed the colossal Antonov AN-124 Russian aircraft.

-says no word yet on added costs Public Works Minister Juan Edghill says that CEMCO Inc has acknowledged design flaws in the ongoing $1.4b Port Kaituma Stelling project where fissures occurred, necessitating remedial work.

APNU+AFC  MP Vinceroy Jordan is calling for a Commission of Inquiry into the $600 million spent by the Ministry of Agriculture to rehabilitate the powerhouse damaged at the Albion Sugar Estate factory in February of this year.