Guyana News

President Irfaan Ali yesterday paid homage to the men and women who died in service to the Commonwealth during World Wars I and II.

The 290 students set to return to President’s College for classes from today will be housed in the school’s dormitories under strict guidelines to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

Labour and Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Officers are to be trained in foreign languages to ensure proper communication with all segments of the workforce. 

Dear Editor, There are myriad issues which have been revealed as sub-optimal in this 2020 CXC Exam Crisis: the 2020 CSEC and CAPE Results, the core output of CXC, which have disadvantaged hundreds of our nation’s children, and thousands regionally; deficiencies in CXC’s grading methodology and SBA moderation process; the use of questions previously in the public arena which represented the bulk of Paper 1; an over-ambitious revised exam structure which required thousands more SBAs to be moderated, which probably overwhelmed the technological and human resource capabilities of the ‘regional educational eco-system’ already challenged by the pandemic; the role of the likely  algorithm used to assign (some) grades. 

Sanitation worker Kevin Smith, age 29,  of Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara died this afternoon following an accident at the Infectious Diseases Hospital, Liliendaal, the police said in a statement.

President Irfaan Ali yesterday congratulated US President-elect Joe Biden on his victory at the November 3rd general elections.

A Caribbean joint-venture for a chemical storage facility has been shelved amid controversy over the disposal of state lands on the East Bank Demerara (EBD) and a near US$1 million payment to a well-known PNCR figure.

The PPP/C government will continue with the China-funded US$37.6 million National Broadband Expansion Project to be implemented by Chinese firm Huawei and Prime Minister Mark Phillips said that national security considerations will be taken into consideration.

The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) has announced that it has reached out to the ministries of Home Affairs and Human Services to partner with it in financing a visit by a team of forensic pathologists from Argentina to assist the Guyana Police Force in resolving the recent murders of West Berbice youth Joel and Isaiah Henry and Haresh Singh. 

The main parliamentary opposition yesterday maintained its call on Minister of Tourism, Industry and Commerce Oneidge Walrond to resign her posts as minister and Member of Parliament.

Four persons, including a broker, are currently being questioned by the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) as part of its probe of the recent discovery of a huge quantity of cocaine concealed in a shipment of scrap metal that was intercepted in Belgium, while the shipper is still being sought.

Minister of Health Dr Frank Anthony on Friday commissioned a $30 million health centre at Bamia, Soesdyke-Linden High-way.

A farmer was chopped to death on Friday afternoon at Cassie Creek, Baramita, North West District (NWD) and the police are on the hunt for his assailant.

Tulsie Maniram, the Hampton Court resident who was struck down by a speeding funeral van almost a month ago along the Devonshire Castle Public Road, Essequibo Coast, succumbed to his injuries yesterday morning at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

Opposition Leader Joseph Harmon has stated that his government never approached the US State Department to purchase four Bell helicopters and equipment for the Guyana Defence Force (GDF).

The Integrity Commission will meet this week to begin compiling lists of those public officers who have failed to submit the required financial declaration mere days before the November 15th extended deadline.

Saying that he did not want to be a source of delays, attorney Sanjeev Datadin has withdrawn from serving as a prosecutor in the criminal proceedings against Chief Election Officer Keith Lowenfield.

The best practices to ensure safety during teaching is the biggest concern of the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU), Education Minister Priya Manickchand believes following a recent engagement ahead of tomorrow’s reopening of public schools.

Noting how quickly her elderly mother developed severe symptoms of COVID-19 before dying, Moblissa resident Coleen Williams is hoping that authorities move swiftly to isolate her father, who has also tested positive and has pre-existing conditions, so that he can be properly monitored.