Guyana News

Five lucky students at the Youth Village at D’Urban Park on Saturday won digital tablets courtesy of the Ministry of Public Tele-communications.

Courtney Benn Contracting Services, the company awarded a contract for the re-construction of St Rose’s High School, has begun moving materials onto the site.

Local beverage and food company Banks DIH Limited is diversifying its business to include alternative energy services and automotive sales.

Jan Mangal, former Petroleum Adviser to the President,  says ExxonMobil’s Payara oil well development should not be approved until it yields big changes to the much-criticised 2016 deal including a higher royalty rate than the current 2%.

A New and United Guyana (ANUG), The New Movement (TNM) and the Liberty and Justice Party (LJP) held their first public meeting together yesterday to explain why they decided to combine the votes they will receive on Election Day.

A Bushlot Village, Corentyne woman is now hospitalised after her husband chopped her about her body on Friday evening and then hanged himself.

President David Granger yesterday expressed sadness at the death of Senior Counsel  and National Awardee Brynmor Thornton Inniss Pollard who died on Friday at 92.

Chairperson of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Justice Claudette Singh yesterday said that the March 2nd  general elections will be free, fair and transparent.

The Guyana Government in collaboration with the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) is currently preparing counter-measures to prevent any outbreak of the coronavirus that has killed dozens in China and created international concerns about its spread.

Chief Election Officer (CEO) Keith Lowenfield yesterday announced that there will be approximately 2500 polling stations on Elections Day and he cautioned about the converging of persons around these.

Almost three months after her 8-year-old son Richard Boodram was brutally beaten by five of his former classmates at the Mon Repos Primary School his mother, Devika Persaud, said that the injury he sustained to his left eye is affecting his schoolwork.

A $6.3 Million  regional dialysis centre was officially commissioned yesterday at the New Amsterdam Regional Hospital.

The Guyana Bauxite & General Workers Union (GB&GWU) has strongly denied a Department of Public Information (DPI) release stating that the union had a meeting with Minister Keith Scott on the recent layoffs by BCGI.

President David Granger today expressed condolences on the passing of Senior Counsel Bryn Pollard yesterday.

A Bushlot Village, Corentyne woman is presently battling for her life at the New Amsterdam  Public Hospital after she was chopped about her body last evening by her husband who later committed suicide.

Years of domestic abuse ended on Thursday night when a mother of six was stabbed to death in full view of her 16-year-old daughter and her attacker, who subsequently attempted to take his own life has been arrested.

President David Granger last evening called for an 80% to 85% turnout at the March 2 general elections when he addressed a massive crowd of supporters at the Golden Grove Community Centre. 

Describing the laying off of 142 workers by the Russian bauxite company, BCGI as  legally and morally wrong, Minister within the Ministry of Social Protection Keith Scott yesterday said it never provided the necessary legal and statutory notice to either the labour department or the union as the law requires.

Two female students from the Linden Foundation Secondary School were yesterday arrested in connection with the horrific incident where a 15-year-old girl of the same institution was stabbed on Thursday.

Rickford Jones who was on trial at the High Court in Demerara for shooting and killing a man into whose house he and another had gone, was yesterday sentenced to 23 years behind bars, after pleading guilty to the charge of manslaughter.