Guyana News

Spring tides continued to batter sea defences across the coast yesterday with flooding reported in almost every coastal region as the authorities scrambled to respond with hundreds of persons at risk. 

Following what he believes is an error in the Guyana Elections Commission’s (GECOM) announcement that all potential voters for the 2020 elections must verify their registration, opposition-nominated commissioner Sase Gunraj said that he will press for sanctions against those responsible.

A shooting on Saturday night in Amelia’s Ward, Linden, has left one man dead and his partner hospitalised.

Guyana will undergo massive development when the oil starts flowing and New York-based Guyanese would like to see free university education as a priority so that more young people would be qualified and remain there.  

The Department of Public Information (DPI) yesterday issued a statement in response to a news item in yesterday’s Sunday Stabroek about a miniaturizing of state advertisements to this newspaper but provided no explanations.

After a court battle over the ownership of the building housing the popular Shanta’s Puri Shop on Camp Street concluded last year, owner Deodat Persaud has decided to sell.

Stabroek Market will be closed today to members of the public because of overtopping caused by spring tides yesterday.

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) head Dr Vincent Adams has praised moves by oil major ExxonMobil and its prime contractors to hire specialists for in-house oversight of the environment as he highlighted that the regulatory body faces challenges in filling those positions because of the lack of local personnel and money to pay overseas specialists.

Winston Jordan and Raphael Trotman, the ministers of Finance and Natural Resources respectively, say that they have filed their declarations to the Integrity Commission as required under the Integrity Commission Act, but Minister of Business Haimraj Rajkumar is yet to do so.

 Twenty-nine youths and adults graduated from the Guyana Mining School and Training Centre Inc’s mineral prospecting and map reading level one course on Friday.

Twenty thousand Guyanese no longer use landline telephone services and the numbers are continuing to decline, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GTT) company, Justin Nedd said last week.

The Ministry of Public Telecommunications is preparing to roll out a pilot project that will see the digitisation of all employee records.

The Minister of Social Protection, Amna Ally handed over a laptop computer to Orin Grimmond and family, during her visit to the Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo region over the weekend, the Department of Public Information (DPI) said.

In light of the unusually high tides and the overtopping of the sea defenses along coastal areas especially on the West Coast of Demerara and the possibility of flooding, the Ministry of Public Health is advising that special attention be placed on your health, personal hygiene, vector control, food and water safety to avoid adverse effects of flooding.

Republic Bank Limited’s (RBL) pursuit of Scotiabank was to increase its economies of scale and become more competitive but notwithstanding the unsuccessful takeover bid, the Trinidad-headquartered bank is gearing to ramp up services to the oil and gas sector.

Residents of several West Coast Demerara (WCD) villages were forced to flee their homes as high tides early yesterday morning overtopped the seawall, flooding houses, and leaving many counting their losses.

The knife fight in Albert-town, Georgetown that left two men dead on Friday night stemmed from an argument over the purchase of cigarettes, the police said yesterday.

The Department of Public Information (DPI) has significantly cut the placement of state advertisement with Stabroek News and Editor-in-Chief Anand Persaud believes it is a clear “attempt to muzzle” the newspaper.

A Corentyne fisherman is believed to have drowned on Friday afternoon at the outfall at Number 66 Village, Corentyne, where he had been swimming. 

Foreign Affairs Minister Dr. Karen Cummings has urged Guyanese in the diaspora to exercise greater vigilance as she says Guyana’s “progress and prospects” has given rise to envy and skepticism by both local and international actors.