Guyana News

More than 100 Soesdyke-Linden Highway residents were yesterday allocated lands in the Village of Swan on the Soesdyke-Linden Highway by the Guyana Lands and Survey Commission (GLSC).

Vendors at the Charity Market in Region Two have voiced concerns regarding various features of new stalls, as they compared them to their previous 12 x14 stalls. 

The Ministry of Labour’s Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Department has begun a probe into the  workplace fatality that occurred at the Springhall sluice located at Farm/Woodlands, West Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara (E.C.D).

In support of preparations for the third United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3), the United Nations (UN) System in Georgetown collaborated with the French Diplomatic Office in Guyana to organise an edition of ‘Blue Talks’, a multi-stakeholder discussion and debate, a UN Guyana release said yesterday.

Oil and gas support facility, Guyana Shore Base Inc (GYSBI), yesterday announced the expansion of its Technical Scholarship programme at the Georgetown and Leonora technical institutes for ten persons from Region Three, a release from the company stated.

As part of its efforts to extend its outreach to other regions, the Public Pro-curement Commission (PPC) conducted a training session at the Watooka Guest House in Linden, Region Ten.

Cabinet has decided that the descriptor `Negro’ is no longer to be used in the operational manuals of state agencies.

Police in Regional Division 4C conducted ‘Cordon and Search’ operations on Thursday in the Sparendaam and Beterverwagting Police Station Districts, where several locations were searched.

The Ministry of Education announced in a release on Thursday that its Unit of Allied Arts and the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Guyana have formalised their partnership by signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to initiate the 2024 Guyana-China Friend-ship Youth Leadership Development Competition. 

An East Bank Berbice businesswoman and a construction worker were both on Thursday arrested in connection with an unlicensed firearm at Islington Village, Greater New Amsterdam.

Cabinet today announced that the descriptor `Negro’ is no longer to be used in the operational manuals of state agencies.

Detectives are investigating the murder of Navar George Barton, a 29-year-old Jamaican national and singer who resided at Lot 125 Section’ A’ South Sophia, Greater Georgetown.

-granted $600,000 bail each The three persons who earlier this week allegedly attempted to smuggle over 240 ounces of gold to the United States  pleaded not guilty to the joint charge when they appeared before the court yesterday, and have each been placed on $600,000 bail.

Government last week asked for the Bank of Guyana’s intervention to address a foreign exchange shortage here following complaints from local commercial banks at a meeting, and as a result, over US$80 million was released into the monetary system.

A Corentyne motorcyclist died after he reportedly swerved into an incoming lorry along the Corentyne Highway yesterday afternoon. 

The Russian warships which are headed to the Caribbean soon pose no direct threat to Guyana, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo said yesterday at this weekly press conference.

 Police are investigating a fatal accident which occurred at about 7.12 am yesterday on the public road at Mc Doom, East Bank Demerara (EBD) which resulted in the death of pedestrian Munaisar Sewcharan, a 66-year-old from Houston Housing Scheme.

The Guyana Office for Investment (G-Invest) and the Suriname Investment and Trade Agency yesterday signed an agreement to enhance trade and Foreign Direct Investment between the two countries.

Shaquille Leacock, 24,  died yesterday after he was stabbed  on Wednesday at Turkeyen, Georgetown by one of two male attackers.

-floodwater down by 10 inches By Bebi Oosman Almost 80% of the intended rice crop has been sown in Black Bush Polder and the floodwater as of yesterday had dropped by ten inches, Regional Chairman, David Armogan reported yesterday.