Guyana News

Republic Bank (Guyana) is advising its customers of the implementation of a new banking platform to take effect on November 04, 2019.

With a commitment from Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) to a scheduled overhaul of its plants and works currently ongoing, the Environmental Protection Agen-cy (EPA) believes the company is setting an environmental oversight standard for all to follow.

The Department of Labour of the Ministry of Social Protection is to conciliate in a dispute between GuySuCo and GAWU at Blairmont pertaining to a controversial promotion.

A 29-year-old Venezuelan who allegedly held a knife to a woman’s throat in Mabaruma before robbing her of her money was yesterday remanded to prison.

The Ministry of Natural Resources  (MoNR) yesterday commissioned its first Warden Station at Dagg Point, Bartica.

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr Karen Cummings will represent Guyana at the XVIII Summit of Heads of States and Government of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) scheduled to be held in Baku, Azerbaijan on October 25 and 26.

President David Granger returned to the country last night from Cuba having completed a scheduled medical evaluation at CIMEQ over the past few days and his medical specialists have said that he is in remission from Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, a release from the Guyana mission in Havana said today.

Members of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) say that Chairman, Justice (retired) Claudette Singh has been called upon to make a definitive decision on the use of the date collected during the recent House to House exercise (HtH).

Days after the police issued a wanted bulletin for Shane ‘Demon’ Morgan, the suspected mastermind of last week’s attempted robbery outside of El Dorado Trading that left gold miner Deon Stoll dead, he was arrested at a roadblock along the East Coast of Demerara (ECD).

The man accused of fatally stabbing 22-year-old Noel Singh outside his Met-en-meerzorg, West Coast Demerara (WCD) home on Sunday evening was yesterday apprehended by the police.

The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) yesterday held the first of two hearings, its first ever advisory opinion proceedings, which concern whether a member state of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), may opt out of a decision of the Conference of Heads of Government to extend the class of workers allowed to move work freely across CARICOM, and the legal effect of such opting out. 

Renard Caesar, one of the men who was allegedly involved in a recent shootout at La Penitence Market was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with the attempted murder of fugitive ex-policeman Teon Allen.

The Traffic Department of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) on Monday towed and impounded several motor cars found parked diagonally, and double parked, making good on a warning issued last week to punish persons who defy traffic laws.

(Reuters) – A lawyer for New York’s attorney general yesterday told a state judge Exxon Mobil Corp used two sets of books to hide the true cost of climate change regulations from investors, while an attorney for the oil major assailed the claims as false and politically motivated.

A Corentyne man was yesterday charged in connection with the hit and run accident which resulted in the death of Premchand Harripaul along the Number 76 Village, Corentyne Public Road on Saturday afternoon.

Even with heightened awareness, Marcia Burrowes, 63, initially ignored a lump she felt on her right breast until a friend advised her about screening, which led to her being diagnosed with stage two breast cancer.

The recent operation carried out at Quartz Stone in Region Seven by the Guyana Police Force (GPF) and the Guyana Geo-logy and Mines Commission (GGMC) was an enforcement activity intended to clear the area of illegal miners, Minister of Natural Resources Raphael Trotman says.

Wazim Perreira, who was charged with attempted murder after allegedly setting his former partner on fire, yesterday faced a murder charge after she recently succumbed to her injuries.

The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) is maintaining that the established process for employee promotion at the Blairmont sugar estate was not followed in the recent appointment of a former manager of Rose Hall Estate as an artisan.

Tenders were yesterday opened at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board for the procurement of uniform material for the Guyana Police Force, a majority of the bids were well over $100M, with the highest bid being just below $800M.