Guyana News

Following  concerns raised by a number of rice farmers along the Essequibo Coast about severe paddy bug infestations, recently appointed Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha held a meeting yesterday with officials from the Guyana Rice Development Board and instructed that help be provided to the growers.

Members of the Disabled People’s Network (DPN) of Region Five will finally have their own multipurpose building through a project undertaken by the Food for the Poor (FFP) organisation and are to establish a special needs school for the first time. 

After 113 persons were tested in the last 24 hours, Guyana recorded no new COVID-19 case according to the Ministry of Health’s daily dashboard update yesterday.

The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on July 20th provided reasons for denying special leave on June 30th to two Guyanese men who were seeking to appeal their drug convictions in Barbados.

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has provided $5.6 million worth of food items in COVID-19 relief to Persons Living with HIV (PLHIV) and members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual and Transgender plus (LGBT+) community in Guyana.

The challenge mounted for the disclosure of Irfaan Ali’s academic credentials ahead of his becoming president is still pending although counsel for the applicants has said that they are not likely to proceed.

Recently appointed Minister within the Ministry of Public Works Deodat Indar has bemoaned delays in sealing breaches along the Mahaicony shoreline, which one of the contractors, BK International, claims is partly due to a defect in the design provided to it.

RadioShack Guyana on Friday opened its central store in the Fogarty’s building, in Georgetown, thereby establishing its third location since the electronics retailer first launched operations here in 2017.

The Minister of Local Government and Regional Development Nigel Dharamlall and Minister within the Ministry Anand Persaud yesterday met with Mayor Ubraj Narine during a courtesy visit to City Hall.

Rocky Profitt, also known as ‘Satan,’ is wanted by police for questioning over the death of Marlon Fordyce, who was fatally shot last Friday at Corriverton, Berbice.

In response to several queries, the media corps and, by extension, the general public, is being advised that the Office of the President will have oversight for the areas of Finance and Natural Resources.

Minister of Public Works, Bishop Juan Edghill  has instructed the Hinterland Electrification Company Inc (HECI) to take immediate steps to restore power to Matthews Ridge  in the north west after he was told by regional officials that the community had had no electricity since March of this year.

Director of Sports Christopher Jones was today relieved of his position and sent on his annual leave but the APNU+AFC candidate says that once he receives the benefits that come with the termination of contract, he will have no difficulties with the termination but if not he would have to fight it Jones told Stabroek News that he received the letter earlier today and it was headed ‘Termination of Contract’ and “essentially sending me off on leave as of today August 10th to September 13th”.

Bilateral co-operation between Georgetown and Paramaribo was over the weekend agreed when two recently-elected presidents – Guyana’s Irfaan Ali and Suriname’s Chandrika-persad Santokhi  – held discussions on oil and gas and a bridge across the Corentyne among other areas.

The salaries of political appointees have come under the spotlight as it has been revealed that PNCR Executive Larry London was being paid a huge salary and other benefits in the position of Director of Public Parks under the Department of Environment when he hardly even lived in the country. 

Four excavators are to be deployed in Upper Corentyne villages stricken by flooding following heavy rain on Friday and Saturday even as questions are being raised as to why the local government authority was unable to clear clogged drains.

The Irfaan Ali-led PPP/C government will retain the services of former Minister of Foreign Affairs and People’s National Congress Reform executive Carl Greenidge until the Guyana-Venezuela border case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ended.

The Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) has granted permission to US-based Eastern Airlines to operate six repatriation flights from Miami and New York over the next three weeks.

The majority of Canje residents who were laid off due to the closure of the Rose Hall Estate in 2017, are hopeful that the estate will be reopened as soon as possible under the new PPP/C administration, in keeping with the party’s manifesto promise. 

While the opposition APNU+AFC has condemned recent comments made by new Minister of Natural Resources Vickram Bharrat of gross mismanagement of the sector—the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) in particular, Minister of Parliamentary Affairs Gail Teixeira has said that the GFC is in fact bankrupt.