Guyana News

As part of its continuing public awareness campaign in the lead up to the national ban on single use plastics in 2021, the Ministry of the Presidency’s Department of Environment has said strict action is needed from all stakeholders to transition to the use of reusable products, including shopping bags and water bottles, while cutting out non-essential items such as plastic straws.

By Bertrand Ramcharan They had traversed the Atlantic half a century earlier, from Guyana to London, in pursuit of higher education.

Popular D’Urban Street restaurant and hangout spot the Guinness Bar was this evening destroyed by fire of suspected electrical origin.

An overworked Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission (GL&SC) is approving plans that have resulted in key public infrastructure being essentially handed over to private developers including at Houston, East Bank Demerara where a critical drainage canal is being filled in by developers.

Well-known dentist Dr Jennifer Bulkan was early Saturday evening assaulted and robbed by two “brazen” gun-toting bandits, minutes after she had entered her Werk-en-Rust, Georgetown home.

A Kuru Kuru, Linden/Soesdyke Highway miner on Saturday succumbed to his injuries after he was chopped about his body on Friday during an alleged robbery and police are currently seeking two suspects, a Brazilian national and his step-father.

Diwali celebrations for a Peter’s Hall, East Bank Demerara family took a turn for the worse after their house was destroyed by a fire suspected to be electrical in origin.

Guyana is now among the top 25% robotic teams worldwide following its fighting performance in the recently completed ‘First Global Robotic’ competition in Dubai where they gained six victories and three losses which earned them an overall ranking of 39 out of the 190 countries who competed.

The body of Keion Paul, the 17- year old who went missing while swimming in the Puruni area, Region Seven was discovered on Saturday.

Presidential candidate of the Change Guyana political party Robert Badal says that under his government, Guyana will be ‘blackout’ free and voters should judge him on his record as Chairman of the Guyana Power and Light Company (GPL).

Living with an autistic sister and understanding the challenges faced, was what drove Sasha Williams, a quarterfinalist in the Miss Guyana World 2020 competition, to choose autism spectrum disorder (ASD) as her Beauty with a Purpose project. 

A fire yesterday afternoon destroyed a Meadowbrook home and left the sole occupant homeless.

A 26-year old labourer was last week remanded to prison for allegedly attempting to kill a 66-year-old Mes Delices, Canal No.

For a second consecutive year, Guyana is ranked at 134 in the World Bank’s ease of doing business index.

A Spring Garden, Essequibo Coast mother of four lost her two-storey wooden and concrete home in a mysterious fire on Friday night.

A man who allegedly stole a roll of vinyl from his sister was last week sentenced to six weeks in jail after he admitted to the simple larceny charge that was read to him in a city court.

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has published the list of registrants generated from the contentious national house-to-house registration exercise but commission members are divided on how the information is to be treated, while the opposition has questioned its legality and called for its withdrawal. 

Two persons are now dead and two others are injured following a head-on collision between an ambulance and a car along Obama Drive, Amelia’s Ward, Linden early yesterday morning.

The life of the current Public Procurement Com-mission (PPC) expires today and despite the Constitution providing for two commissioners to be granted four-year terms to allow for transitioning, this has not happened.

Fair treatment of all businesses and no taxes on start-ups until they begin to turn a profit is a key pledge of the soon-to-be-launched Change Guyana political party, whose presidential candidate Robert Badal is asking voters to trust his experience and leadership as a businessman.