Guyana News

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) yesterday swore in nine of 10 Returning Officers from nine administrative regions in preparation for the March 2nd general elections.

Minister of State,  Dawn Hastings-Williams yesterday received a courtesy call from the United States Ambassador to Guyana,  Sarah-Ann Lynch at her office at the Ministry of the Presidency during which elections-related matters were discussed.

People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) presidential candidate and former housing minister Irfaan Ali’s application for a stay of the Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the 19 fraud charges brought against him over the sale of state lands in the ‘Pradoville 2’ Housing Scheme is expected to be heard by the Court of Appeal later this month.

The National Insurance Scheme (NIS) yesterday announced the following increases in pensions and the contributions ceiling. 

Revenue uncollected due to exemptions from duties and taxes in the year 2018 was more than double the amount exempted in 2017 with companies and businesses ‘Conditional Tax Exemption’ equal to 20 times that of the taxes paid.

A Corriverton Market labourer was yesterday charged with murdering Lochan Persaud Kamaldeo over a sleeping spot on one of the market’s stalls last Friday evening.

Preparatory works for upgrading the Vreed-en-Hoop and Stabroek ferry stellings began last year and will continue this year with the projects expected to be completed within three years, Minister of Public Infrastructure David Patterson has said.

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’.