Guyana News

Newly-appointed Ministers of Housing & Water (MoH&W), Collin Croal and Susan Rodrigues, have assured Sophia squatters that their homes will not be demolished.

The Ministry of Education (MoE) yesterday announced a deadline for the release of the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) results and hinted at actions that might be taken to continue educating as the coronavirus continues to spread around the country.

The Ministry of Public Works yesterday said that 21 Traffic Lights Solar Panels have been stolen over a period of two days.

Investigators yesterday re-arrested three police officers as they continue to probe the chase which occurred in the city more than two weeks ago and which led to one civilian succumbing to his injuries and another paralysed for life.

The Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) expects the re-instituted Ministry of Labour to adopt the declarations and conventions of the United Nations (UN) and International Labour Organisations (ILO), and uphold the Constitution and Laws of Guyana in the best interests of the Guyanese workers.

British High Commissioner to Guyana, Greg Quinn said today that Guyana’s five-month wait for an elections declaration and the blatant attempt to fix the results was one he had never seen in his 25-year career as a diplomat.

A West Bank Berbice man succumbed at the New Amsterdam Public Hospital this morning after he sustained a gunshot injury on Monday evening in a domestic dispute involving a couple.

Authorities in the German port city of Hamburg have found over €300 million worth of cocaine in a cargo ship container from Guyana containing rice.

Hundreds of millions of dollars were paid out to more than 50 contract workers of the Ministry of Communities under the previous APNU+AFC administration over the past five years with no record or evidence of their performance, newly appointed Minister of Local Government and Regional Development Nigel Dharamlall has said.

The contract of Guyana Water Inc Managing Director Richard Van West-Charles has been terminated.

The People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) yesterday announced the co-opting of former government ministers Joseph Harmon and Simona Broomes to the Central Executive Committee (CEC) of the party.

Attorney General Anil Nandlall yesterday expressed dissatisfaction with the manner in which an IDB-funded project to reduce the prison population in Guyana is proceeding and urged that unused sentencing guidelines be upgraded.

A fatal accident early yesterday morning at Soesdyke, East Bank Demerara (EBD) has claimed the life of a Timehri bus conductor and left four others injured.

The United States Agency for International Development’s  (USAID) support for transparency and good governance in the extractive sector has been boosted with an additional $500,000 grant.

Holding local government elections and an increase in subventions being provided to municipalities and Neighbourhood Democratic Councils (NDCs) have been announced as being among the top priorities of the Ministry of Local Government under the new government.

The Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) has announced the introduction of its digital internal customer funds transfer as well as the expansion of its online bill payment platform.

The Central Corentyne Chamber of Commerce last week called for a Commission of Inquiry (CoI) to be conducted into the 2020 general and regional elections.

Twenty-seven-year-old Winston Fraser, one of the two men allegedly shot by police either during or after a car chase on the morning of July 25th, is currently paralysed as a result of it and his doctors have advised that there is a 50% probability that he will die if surgery is attempted to remove the fragments of a warhead lodged near his spine.

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.