Guyana News

As a New and United Guyana (ANUG) moves towards the 2020 general elections, it will be targetting those voters who see no future in the ethnic politics that have dominated Guyana, according to its presidential candidate Ralph Ramkarran.

Six years after three Albouystown youths were fatally shot by police on South Road, in George-town, their families still await justice.

The police have been advised not to charge Shemar Wilson, the suspected mastermind behind the lobbing of a grenade outside the Kaieteur News’ offices in 2016.

Seven persons, including the son of a city businessman who had been taken into custody almost three weeks ago following the discovery of a sub-machine gun and a quantity of ammunition at Church Street, South Cummingsburg, George-town, have been released from police custody without charge.

Hinterland village leaders last Wednesday told Minister of Natural Resources Raphael Trotman that they were being affected by a number of issues stemming from mining, including threats and damage to transport infrastructure, while others questioned why residents  were being subjected to huge fines for the small amount of lumbering or logging they do on their lands.

The Local Government Commission (LGC) has finally filed its appeal of the ruling of Justice Simone Morris-Ramlall, which nullified the dismissal of Georgetown Town Clerk Royston King, sources have said.

Courts Optical Guyana opened the doors of its newest branch yesterday at Grove, East Bank Demerara.

Minister of State Dawn Hastings-Williams on Friday night pledged to ensure that government makes full use of Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation (ITEC) scholarships to ensure that Guyanese acquire skills that would allow them to  meaningfully contribute to national development.

The Guyana Power and Light Incorporated (GPL) yesterday announced that it has started remedial work on the damaged 69 kV submarine cable which links the Vreed-en-Hoop and Kingston Substations.

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Under fire for frequent blackouts, GPL has begun  long-awaited repairs to its vital submarine cable across the Demerara River which suffered damage in June and August this year.

President David Granger yesterday emphasised that Guyana must not only prepare for an oil economy but also prepare for the post-oil economy, which, he said, is expected to be fueled by agro-processing.

A pensioner, believed to have been strangled with her mosquito net, was found dead on Thursday evening at her Bourda Street, Georgetown house.

Autopsies performed on the bodies of Ian and Rakesh Matthias, the two brothers whose bullet-riddled bodies were found on Shell Beach, in Region One on Thursday, have confirmed that they both died from multiple gunshot wounds and investigators believe they were tortured prior to being killed.

The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) yesterday announced new regulations for the importation of electrical installation products with those that fall below the standards set liable to be seized when enforcement begins on February 1 next year.

The Caucus of Indigenous Peoples (CIP) was officially launched on the final day of the 13th National Toshaos Council (NTC) conference yesterday.

Commissiong and Company Limited of Trinidad plans to take legal action against the Guyana Oil Company (GUYOIL) for alleged wrongful termination of three contracts.

Fed up with complaints from the public about the time-consuming service at the National Insurance Scheme (NIS), Minister of Finance Winston Jordan has charged the staff to change their attitudes.

Five more Indigenous communities, Kangaruma and Tasserene, in Region Seven, Yupukari, in Region Nine, and St.

Almost two years after being charged with the unlawful possession of a semi-automatic rifle, a man was yesterday found guilty of the crime and sentenced to two years in jail.