Guyana News

Even as the police are yet to make an arrest, the second victim in the Number 63 Village hotel murders was yesterday identified by relatives as Harry Persaud, 59, of Number 68 Village, Corentyne.

The first ten months of 2019 saw some 3,752 reported cases of child abuse and while there is much more to be done, the country has come a far way in relation to the response to the scourge, Director of the Child Care & Protection Agency (CC&PA) Ann Greene says.

Former APNU+AFC parliamentarian Charrandass Persaud on Friday endorsed the People’s Progressive Party’s presidential candidate Irfaan Ali, saying that he believes that Ali will do “well as president.”

The $227 million solar power farm built in Mabaruma, Region One should be up and running before Republic Day, Minister of Public Infrastructure David Patterson told Stabroek News yesterday.

The Region One Health Officer (RHO), Dr Latchmie Lall has disclosed that the Region has recorded a significant increase in teenage pregnancy.

The Ministry of Public Infrastructure has submitted an application to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for an Environmental Authorisation to construct a new ferry stelling at Parika.

A pork knocker of Tabatinga, Lethem, was found dead on a trail in Region Eight with stab wounds about his body and two persons are currently in police custody assisting with investigations.

A 49-year-old woman, who responded to the Cancer Institute of Guyana’s (CIG) recent two-day cervical cancer campaign in Essequibo, ended up being led to a huge suspicious breast mass through an ultrasound after she took the opportunity to seek advice from the team. 

A Partnership for National Unity and the Alliance For Change Coalition will officially launch their election campaign on January 3rd,2020 and among the performers will be Trinidadian soca star Farmer Nappy.

The Ministry of Public Infrastructure has submitted an application to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for an Environmental Authorisation, for the proposed upgrade of the Lethem Aerodrome.

Loreta Hilliman-Sullivan is living her dream of transforming her huge yard space at Den Amstel, West Coast Demerara into an attractive garden, adorned with arches and pergolas and even though it is not yet complete it is still an eye-catcher. 

Toolsie Persaud Limited has applied to the Environmental Protection Agency for Environmental Authorisation to construct a wharf at its Sussex and Lombard streets location. 

In an event that is an annual occurrence during the Christmas season, the Enmore Association of New York (EANY) has once again fêted over 700 persons at its annual Christmas luncheon in Enmore, East Coast Demerara.

The sugar union GAWU says it is  dismayed to know that for workers employed in the private sector their minimum pay remains stuck at $44,200 per month whereas their colleagues in the State sector would be receiving $70,000 per month.

President David Granger and Ministers of the Government yesterday met with the Chairperson of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Justice (ret’d) Claudette Singh SC, and the six Commissioners and promised Government’s full support towards the body’s work in ensuring “free, fair and credible elections” on March 2, 2020.

President David Granger has issued the Proclamations for the dissolution of Parliament and the ten Regional Democratic Councils on December 30, 2019.

The decomposing bodies of a Canadian hotelier and his worker were found yesterday afternoon in the man’s hotel at Number 63 Village, Corentyne with the two apparently tortured as body parts had been hacked away.

Corwin Cooper, the 27-year-old man accused of fatally striking an elderly woman with his car two days before Christmas, was placed on $500,000 bail after being charged for driving under the influence of alcohol and causing death by dangerous driving.

The long-awaited process to select a prime ministerial candidate for the opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP) for the March 2nd, 2020 General and Regional Elections could have begun yesterday.

Central High School which was located on Smyth Street, Georgetown, as of September 2019, was merged with St.