Guyana News

Rehabilitation work at the Lethem aerodrome is expected to commence in the next two weeks as a contract was recently awarded for the project.

At a meeting of the Mayor and City Council earlier this month, Dr Carl Niamatali presented a proposal which would bring to a halt, the dumping and burning of garbage within the city.

The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) has condemned what it said were acts of hooliganism during Thursday’s protests against President David Granger and it called for all to be guided by GECOM’s time frame for general elections.

Two Chinese nationals perished in a fire which in the wee hours of today ravaged the Public Road, Vreed-en-Hoop home and supermarket they rented along with four other buildings on the busy West Coast of Demerara business stretch.

Following his return to Guyana, investigators yesterday concluded their questioning of Roger Khan about his alleged involvement in the murders of political activist Ronald Waddell and boxing coach Donald Allison and he has maintained his innocence.

Almost one month after he “partially appealed” the August 14th judgment by acting Chief Justice Roxane George on the removal of registrants from the Guyana Elections Commission’s national register, the Attorney General (AG) Basil Williams has filed for a stay of execution of the order issued with the ruling as he maintains that residency is a requirement for registration.

A little more than four years after it promised to restore collective bargaining for all the relevant elements of the public service, the APNU+AFC government is receiving mixed to negative reviews on its progress.

Four members of the Guyana Police Force, including the Commander of ‘F’ Division Kevin Adonis and the recently reinstated Simon McBean, were promoted on Wednesday by the Police Service Commission (PSC).

In the face of a warning by the police force that it would seek to prevent a recurrence of the disorder caused by the People’s Progressive Partys (PPP) protest against President David Granger last Thursday, the opposition party yesterday maintained that it did no wrong and would continue to stage such demonstrations countrywide until a date for elections is fixed.

The Board of the Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA) is divided on the apology sent by the organisation to President David Granger over the behaviour of the opposition PPP members who disrupted his speech at its luncheon last Thursday.

Six Guyanese are now ISO certified hydraulic excavator operators after completing a three-week ISO course in Suriname.

A new full service freight forwarder, logistics and consolidation company, Cargo Consolidators Agency Guyana Inc. (CCA Guyana Inc.) was launched on Friday evening.

Following the Bar Council of the Guyana Bar Association (GBA) declaring that APNU+AFC government is operating outside the rule of law, the Office of the Attorney General (AG) yesterday rejected the assertion and suggested that the body has become “minion” to a political party.

A new, fast growing variety of cassava will soon be cultivated by farmers in Region Nine, says Chairman of the Regional Agricultural Committee Rodger King.

The International Decade for People of African Descent Assembly-Guyana (IDPADA-G) will be hosting its second annual conference today when participants will discuss a number of issues that Afro-Guyanese are facing, in addition to finalising a strategic plan for the remaining years of the decade.

In hopes of regaining outstanding licence fees, the Guyana National Broadcasting Authority (GNBA) has filed lawsuits against two broadcasters who it says have refused to pay.

Since becoming operational last year, the investigative department of the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) has dealt with nearly 50 complaints and the single largest number concerned alleged racial discrimination in the workplace.

The Opposition PPP today chided the police force for a statement it issued yesterday warning against a repeat of the disorder stemming from a protest outside the Pegasus Hotel on Thursday against President David Granger.

The Attorney General’s Chambers today rejected a contention by the Bar Council that it is presently operating outside of the rule of law.

After serving 10 years in a United States prison for drug trafficking, Roger Khan returned to Guyana last night and was kept in custody by police pending investigations of his alleged involvement in the murders of political activist Ronald Waddell and boxing coach Donald Allison.