Guyana News

The Ministry of Public Infrastructure has added more roads within Georgetown to its list of those that will be rehabilitated, the Department of Public Information (DPI) reported yesterday.

The Maria’s Pleasure Primary School on the island of Wakenaam in the Essequibo River was recently gifted a laptop computer by the Ministry of Communities.

GECOM has not yet agreed on a firm timeline for general and regional elections and while it continues to examine whether the polls can be held before year-end, the commission has indicated that costs would go up.

A 15-year-old was fatally stabbed during an argument at Plaisance, East Coast Demerara (ECD) on Thursday afternoon and the suspect, who is a relative, has been arrested.

From June 1st to August 31st, Guyanese customers experienced power outages an alarming eight times per day on average, according to statistics produced by electricity utility, the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) company, at a stakeholders’ forum yesterday.

Almost years after being established, oil services company Guyana Shore Base Inc (GYSBI) has sunk over US$100 million ($20.8 billion) into its operations here and plans to invest US$50 million ($10.4 billion) in the next 12 months.

The decision by the Local Government Commission (LGC) to discipline Town Clerk Royston King based on recommendation from a Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the operations of City Hall was yesterday nullified by Justice Simone Morris-Ramlall.

A 25-year old Sophia resident, who allegedly set his lover on fire because she refused to speak with him, was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with attempted murder.

Under pressure over a series of gaffes, US 2020 presidential front-runner Joe Biden confused Guyana for the African nation of Ghana while speaking at a campaign event, according to a report in the Washington Examiner.

Visiting the New Amsterdam Multilateral School (NAMS) yesterday, President David Granger said that over the next decade, efforts will be made to have a school in every village.

A 33-year-old mechanic is now dead after he crashed into a truck while riding his motorcycle early yesterday morning along the Pearl, East Bank Demerara (EBD) Public Road.

The Demerara Harbour Bridge Company has submitted the cost for repairs done on the bridge to the Impex Corporation Limited, which owns the vessel that crashed into the bridge almost two weeks ago, General Manager Rawlston Adams has said.

Denish Nunes, 34, was yesterday sentenced to more than three years in jail and fined over $2 million after a city magistrate found him guilty of having more than three kilogrammes of cannabis in his possession for trafficking.

A mechanic was yesterday sentenced to 18 months in prison after he told a city court that he chopped his boss because he wasn’t paid for his work.

Head of the Guyana Office for Investment (GO-Invest) Owen Verwey has said that his reported revelation in Europe that Guyana will this week announce another oil find was “speculative” and that his agency does not have the authority to announce oil discoveries.

Seeking to assuage privacy concerns, the Ministry of Public Telecommunications yesterday said that facial recognition technology will only be deployed at the country’s official ports of entry as part of the “Safe City” component of the National Broadband Project.

Chicken supplies should return to normalcy within a matter of weeks, President of the Guyana Poultry Producers Association (GPPA) Peter de Groot has said.

The first Agri-Tourism Expo, which is expected to showcase everything each region in Guyana has to offer in relation to agriculture and tourism, was launched yesterday.

Investigators probing the poisoning of a Mon Repos mother and her three-year-old daughter, who were allegedly forced to ingest a poisonous substance on Monday, are still to receive a statement on the events that led to the attack.

The police in ‘E’ Division (Linden- Kwakwani) on Thursday arrested 14 men, who are believed to be part of a gang, during a six-hour-long operation at Mackenzie and Wismar, Linden.