Guyana News

While maintaining that government has not breached the constitution, coalition members the Alliance for Change (AFC) and the Working People’s Alliance (WPA) yesterday voiced their hope that a date for elections will now be swiftly identified.

The Ministry of the Presidency yesterday denounced the behaviour of opposition party leaders and their supporters during a protest on Thursday as “hooliganism and thuggery” that would not be tolerated, even as they maintained that they were acting within their legal rights.

By failing to abide by the Constitution, the APNU+AFC government is operating outside of the rule of law, according to the Bar Council of the Bar Association of Guyana.

Workers at the Charlestown Health Centre yesterday staged a “sit-in” to protest the lack of armed guards at the medical facility.

Seventy-nine residents of Matthews Ridge, in Region One, on Thursday received leases for their lands from Minister of State Dawn Hastings-Williams and Commissioner and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission Trevor Benn, the Ministry of the Presidency (MoTP) has said.

Acting Crime Chief Michael Kingston yesterday said that he will be writing the Chairman of the Police Complaints Authority (PCA) soon to request that the body oversee the investigation into the fatal shooting of Leopold Street resident Orin Odingo Williams.

Public servants who access government loans to pursue higher education at the University of Guyana (UG) should have their balances written off after giving five years post-graduation service in the public sector, says executive member of the Working Peoples Alliance (WPA) Tabitha Sarabo-Halley.

The opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP) is calling on President David Granger to set a date for elections immediately and yesterday said its members are prepared to continue protesting until a date is named even as it has again ruled out returning to parliament to extend the life of the government.

Following concerns raised by the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GTT) company, cable and internet services provider E-Networks yesterday indicated that it had received the necessary approvals to land a subsea cable here, even as the Ministry of Public Telecommunications remained silent on the issue.

The father of a little girl who survived severe burns about her body several years ago is seeking donations to fund further treatment for her abroad.

Signs of corrosion on the Passenger Boarding Bridges at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) led to the suspension of their use, Minister of Public Infrastructure David Patterson said yesterday.

The remains of Shaniya Persaud, the seven-year-old who succumbed more than a month after she was severely burnt in a fire that gutted her Mon Repos North, East Coast Demerara (ECD) home, have been returned to Guyana and a funeral service is scheduled for tomorrow.

Dr Genara Thomas, an advanced Microbiologist Specialist and National PAHO Consultant on Antimicrobial Resistance from Argentina, will be conducting a training programme for Guyanese medical personnel from September 25th to September 27th.

Apparently caught off guard by yesterday’s protests by the PPP inside and outside of the Pegasus Hotel against President David Granger and his government, the Guyana Police Force tonight said it will endeavour to prevent a recurrence.

PPP presidential candidate Irfaan Ali has thanked supporters for turning up at yesterday’s protest at the Pegasus Hotel where President David Granger was delivering an address to the Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association.

The Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA) today apologised to President David Granger for the disruption of his presentation to a business luncheon at the Pegasus Hotel yesterday by PPP activists.

The Bar Council of the Bar Association of Guyana today condemned the failure by the government to hold General and Regional Elections within the period mandated by Article 106(7) of the constitution, which it pointed out is the supreme law of the country.

President David Granger today said that every lawful measure will be taken to guarantee the safety of Ministers of Government and to prevent a breakdown of law and order in the country.

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) says that the concerns raised by residents of the Region Seven border community of Kaikan about the behaviour of soldiers stationed there will be investigated but it said the Force will not surrender its obligation to protect the territorial integrity of the country.

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has said that it will be ready to conduct General and Regional Elections by the end of February 2020.