Guyana News

Sources at the dorms of the Anna Regina Multilateral School in Essequibo are angry over a report in yesterday’s Guyana Times about the students being affected because the kitchen was out of “essential food items.”

Cabinet has taken note of a series of contract awards by procurement agencies which include $215.1m and $208.5m for police divisional headquarters at Anna Regina and Mabaruma respectively and $137m for the rehabilitation of the Lethem aerodrome.

The trial of Lolita Callendar, known as ‘Lola Doll,’ for the alleged assault of fellow cosmetologist Onika Pompey, is expected to restart in December in a city court after she made the decision against compensating the woman for the injuries she suffered during a fight.

Upgraded to the tune of $21m, the Soesdyke Post Office was yesterday recommissioned, according to the Department of Public Information (DPI).

Shellon Barrow, who is accused of plotting to smuggle almost four pounds of cocaine out of the country last year, on Wednesday denied having knowledge of the narcotic and implicated her alleged co-conspirator, Latoya Griffith, during sworn testimony.

Following flooding due to spring tides and sea defence breaches, parts of some Mahaicony villages remain inundated with stagnant salt water as a result of the blocking of a drainage canal by a farmer seeking to protect his own rice crops from being flooded.

The construction of the second cell at the Haags Bosch Sanitary Landfill is expected to be completed by next January, according to Site Manager Lloyd Stanton.

A Goed Bananen Land, East Canje Berbice security guard lost his life yesterday after he was involved in a collision along the Canefield Village, East Canje Berbice Public Road.

The Guyana Court of Appeal on Wednesday dismissed an appeal by Alvin Raghubeer, who was convicted in 2016 for severing a man’s hand.

Levar Moore, a 20-year-old electrician who is accused of robbing a policeman of his motorcycle at gunpoint, was yesterday remanded to prison.

Public servants, including teachers, nurses and doctors,  and members of the defence, police and security services, will receive permanent, tax-free increases in wages – 8.5% to 9% – and hefty allowances this year all of which will be retroactive to January 1st 2019, President David Granger announced during an address to the nation yesterday.

Two persons including a taxi driver are now dead following a head-on collision between a car and a truck yesterday afternoon at Port Kaituma, North West District.

Three taxi drivers and a mechanic who were charged with stealing three vehicles were yesterday remanded to prison after the court heard that more charges for similar offences will soon be brought against them.

While underscoring that its two finds so far offshore Guyana were heavy crude oil and it will now have to assess the viability of the project, the United Kingdom-based Tullow Oil has assured that it is not thinking of leaving.

More than half of Guyana’s women (55%) have experienced at least one form of intimate partner violence (IPV) in their lifetime, according to the first comprehensive national survey on gender-based violence in Guyana.

The closure to traffic of a third lane along the East Bank of Demerara roadway during  peak hours has caused major chaos over the past two days and Traffic Chief Linden Isles said that the situation will be reviewed today.

The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) believes Guyana must review its place in CARICOM and decide whether it is beneficial to remain part of the block, and that the country should leverage the looming opportunities in the petroleum sector to secure better trade arrangements with sister States.

A 12-member jury yesterday found Rajen Dindial guilty of manslaughter in relation to the killing of a man at a Grove wedding house two years ago.

The four suspects, including a cop, who were arrested by the police in relation to the Matthews Ridge Airstrip robbery on Monday during which a quantity of raw gold was stolen will be escorted to the city today for further questioning.

Although he ended union representation at his Pegasus Hotel back in 2010 following a bitter fallout with the Clerical and Commercial Workers Union (CCWU), Change Guyana presidential candidate and hotelier, Robert Badal says that he wants to make clear that he is not anti-union.