Guyana News

The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) today announced the appointment of  Bharat Dindyal as Chief Executive Officer (CEO).

The Chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions today served a notice of appeal in the case where former GDF Chief of Staff Gary Best was freed of the charge of causing the death of cyclist Jude Bentley by dangerous driving.

The Ministry of Health today said that one more person who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has died.

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT)  today said that as a result of an internet outage affecting the Region, some of its customers may experience some service interruption.  

With the issuance of two new trawling licences shrouded in secrecy, APNU+AFC Member of Parliament Khemraj Ramjattan yesterday said that he will be seeking answers from the National Assembly.

With no satisfactory plan submitted by China Harbour and Engineering Company Limited (CHEC) on the troubled  US$150 million Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) expansion project,  action will be taken against the contractor if it is still in default after December 31, Minister of Public Works Juan Edghill says.

In the backdrop of the five-month elections standoff earlier this year, the PPP/C government has drafted a list of electoral reforms including having an external agency conducting registration and then handing the data to GECOM near to the polls.

Residents of Pigeon Island on the East Coast of Demerara are incensed at the erecting of a plant shop on the state reserve and the dispute has now drawn in several ministers of government and the chairman of a NDC.

The Ministry of Health yesterday said that two more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

The police force is looking for the person/s who slashed a tyre on a Joint Services vehicle which responded to a report of a curfew-breaking party at Den Amstel, West Coast Demerara yesterday with more than 300 persons in attendance.

Members of the Woodley Park Women’s Cash Crop Farmers’ Group from Woodley Park, West Berbice on Saturday received a quantity of fertilizers and seeds to assist with their cultivation, according to a release from the Ministry of Agriculture.

The Ministry of Health today said that two more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

After witnessing what could have been an overturning of democracy here, Canada has pledged further support to electoral reforms and is awaiting the government’s response, outgoing High Commissioner Lilian Chatterjee yesterday announced as she spoke about the events in the aftermath of the March 2nd polling, including a meeting where former president David Granger was told that Western countries would not accept the now discredited initial declaration that was intended to keep him in power.

A new civil society group that hopes to achieve significant electoral reforms before the next general elections was launched yesterday.

The Ministry of Finance has accused the former government of abusing the Contingencies Fund by withdrawing over $4 billion in the second half of 2019 “to meet a variety of expenditure that had not been budgeted for”, which former minister Winston Jordan has met with incredulity.

The police are investigating the murder of a female toddler, whose mutilated body was found floating in a canal at Crane Squatting Area, West Coast Demerara (WCD) yesterday morning.

An Eccles youth succumbed at a city hospital early yesterday morning, hours after he allegedly lost control of his car and crashed into a utility pole along the La Bonne Intention (LBI) East Coast Demerara (ECD) Railway Embankment.

The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) has stated that it is working to acquire standard equipment to commence the verification of breathalyzers and speed guns in the upcoming year.

Approximately 136,000 households in Region Four are expected to benefit from the government’s $25,000 per household COVID-19 relief cash grant and the distribution is likely to start this week, according to Local Government Minister Nigel Dharamlall.

With almost 1,000 CXC-level students unaccounted for since the start of the new school year, the Ministry of Education has moved to partner with religious organisations across the country to reach them and offer support.