Guyana News

Accrediting Australia’s new non-resident High Commissioner to Guyana yesterday, President David Granger stressed the need for immediate and decisive global responses to protect the environment and humanity.

A senator of the US state of Virginia, Richard Black, paid a courtesy call on Public Telecommunications Minister, Catherine Hughes on Tuesday. 

The Ministry of Public Infrastructure (MPI) yesterday said that the Auditor General’s 2018 report on the public accounts was misleading as it didn’t incorporate several of the explanations that the ministry had given.

Floodwaters once again invaded the homes of residents living close to an Endeavour, Leguan koker after farmers, with the permission of the Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC), removed the stop-log door that was recently installed in order to irrigate their farming lands.

Government has identified the Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) as the agency that will be present when petroleum produced by ExxonMobil and its partners is measured and it will also be responsible for testing the measuring appliance.

Yesterday  several stakeholders representing government and non-government agencies met at the Ministry of Brickdam for the first coordinating meeting on the soon to be launched Violence, Injury and Indiscipline Prevention Initiative.

Zeleena Ally is the winner of Lucky Dollar’s Nissan Juke. A release from the company yesterday said that with the Drive Fa De Christmas promotion customers simply had to shop $49,999 and over from November 12th to December 20th to enter to win.

Currently serving a 25-year sentence for raping a child on four different occasions, Jegede Hodge has filed an appeal, contending that his sentence was “unfair, too severe and excessive.”

A Cuban chef who said he entered Guyana as a result of the humanitarian crisis in Venezuela was granted bail when he appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court yesterday charged with falsifying an immigration stamp.

Calvin King and Alvin Kissoon who were given life sentences just under a month ago for murdering a security guard during a 2013 multi-million dollar heist in Lethem have both appealed their conviction and sentence.

The man accused of fatally stabbing Plaisance shopkeeper Sharon Burnett on Monday morning is presently hospitalised but is expected to be charged in connection with the crime today.

Bids were received at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) on Tuesday for the remodeling of the Wismar and Mahdia police stations.

A barber accused of wounding his girlfriend was granted bail after pleading guilty ‘with explanation’.

The Guyana Police Force yesterday said that in order to facilitate Nomination Day which will be held at Umana Yana, High Street, Kingston tomorrow, the following traffic arrangements will be put in place.

A man who hit the mother of his child in the head with an icicle yesterday apologised to her moments before being fined at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

Autopsies performed on the couple found dead in a bathtub at the Aracari Hotel and Resort on Sunday revealed that Sabrina Nandram was beaten and strangled.

In the aftermath of comments attributed today to President David Granger, the Alliance For Change today said that there is a fundamental agreement with APNU that the AFC names the Prime Ministerial candidate and it has named its Leader, Khemraj Ramjattan as the candidate.

Every Guyanese would own shares in a national oil company established to manage revenue from the sale of Guyana’s oil under a Change Guyana government, the party’s Presidential Candidate, hotelier Robert Badal, has said.  

In excess of 630,000 ounces of gold have been declared for the year 2019 according to the Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR).

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) continues to rely heavily on public scrutiny to fulfil aspects of its mandate Stabroek News has reached out to members of the Commission to ask what systems have been put in place to verify statements made on each candidate’s Statutory declaration ahead of the March 2 General and Regional Elections (GRE).