Guyana News

In keeping with a promise made at the start of its campaign, The Citizenship Initiative (TCI) has disclosed its financing and expenditure for the upcoming general and regional elections, while calling on other parties to do the same in the interest of public accountability.

As part of the continuing celebrations to mark Guyana’s 50th anniversary as a republic, children of all ages took to the city streets yesterday for the annual Children’s Mashramani Costume and Float Parade.

At least seven of the nine political parties contesting the March 2nd general and regional elections have agreed to participate in a non-partisan candidates’ forum being held by the Amerindian Peoples Association (APA) in collaboration with the National Toshaos’ Council (NTC).

Fifteen educational institutions received monetary awards from Banks DIH last Thursday evening to continue fostering educational opportunities to the nation.

A 38-year-old woman was admitted to the Georgetown Public Hospital yesterday after being shot in the buttocks by an acquaintance at Puruni Landing, in Region Seven.

A New Amsterdam woman, who was on the run after allegedly burning her husband with a pan of hot oil on the morning of January 30th, surrendered to police last Thursday.

Captain John Bart, the pilot who was hospitalised after his S2R-T34 Turbine Thrush aircraft flipped over during an attempted landing at the Mahaica Abary Rice Development Scheme (MARDS) on Wednesday, has been discharged.

A group of businessmen in the Caribbean Marketing Enterprise Inc (CMEI) are building two branded hotels on 20 acres of land at Ogle and a sod-turning ceremony will be held on Wednesday.

Seeking re-election after almost five years in office, the governing APNU+AFC yesterday presented its 2020 elections manifesto, which President David Granger called a “contract” with the people for the next five years and beyond.

Assuring voters that they would never join APNU+AFC or the PPP/C  for government positions but will work for unity, the three small parties which have joined their lists in a ground-breaking move yesterday set out how they would share any seats won at the March 2nd general elections.

Co-Chair of the APNU+AFC campaign Joseph Harmon yesterday denied that the incumbent is using state resources as part of its re-election efforts.

Nearly two years after it was first proposed by the Working People’s Alliance (WPA), a system of Direct Cash Transfers has found favour with the incumbent A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance for Change (APNU+AFC). 

A chainsaw operator died on Thursday afternoon after he was crushed to death by a tractor while it was descending a hill along the Malali Backdam trail, at Region Ten.

A teen has succumbed after she and two other minors were accidentally struck by a car along the Bush Lot Village, Corentyne, Berbice public road.

A 12-year-old grade seven student of the West Demerara Secondary School was left hospitalised with a fractured skull last Monday after being beaten and robbed.

Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday welcomed the investment represented by the new AC Marriott Hotel but criticized the secrecy with which the arrangement was negotiated.

After over one year on the run, the accused in the murder of Darren Edwards, who was fatally stabbed in December 2018, was remanded to prison yesterday after he was charged with the crime.

The woman who struck by a taxi along the Linden-Soesdyke Highway on Wednesday night has been identified as resident of Yarrowkabra.

The investigation into the one-week old accident which claimed the life of former national cyclist Jude Bentley is “almost” complete and the police are expected to seek legal advice in the new week, Traffic Chief Linden Isles said yesterday.

The Competition and Consumer Affairs Commission (CCAC) has enjoyed some measure of success in its efforts to advocate for consumers’ rights and in encouraging suppliers to comply with the Consumer Affairs and Competition and Fair Trade laws.