Guyana News

After a court battle over the ownership of the building housing the popular Shanta’s Puri Shop on Camp Street concluded last year, owner Deodat Persaud has decided to sell.

Stabroek Market will be closed today to members of the public because of overtopping caused by spring tides yesterday.

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) head Dr Vincent Adams has praised moves by oil major ExxonMobil and its prime contractors to hire specialists for in-house oversight of the environment as he highlighted that the regulatory body faces challenges in filling those positions because of the lack of local personnel and money to pay overseas specialists.

Winston Jordan and Raphael Trotman, the ministers of Finance and Natural Resources respectively, say that they have filed their declarations to the Integrity Commission as required under the Integrity Commission Act, but Minister of Business Haimraj Rajkumar is yet to do so.

 Twenty-nine youths and adults graduated from the Guyana Mining School and Training Centre Inc’s mineral prospecting and map reading level one course on Friday.

Twenty thousand Guyanese no longer use landline telephone services and the numbers are continuing to decline, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GTT) company, Justin Nedd said last week.

The Ministry of Public Telecommunications is preparing to roll out a pilot project that will see the digitisation of all employee records.

The Minister of Social Protection, Amna Ally handed over a laptop computer to Orin Grimmond and family, during her visit to the Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo region over the weekend, the Department of Public Information (DPI) said.

In light of the unusually high tides and the overtopping of the sea defenses along coastal areas especially on the West Coast of Demerara and the possibility of flooding, the Ministry of Public Health is advising that special attention be placed on your health, personal hygiene, vector control, food and water safety to avoid adverse effects of flooding.

Republic Bank Limited’s (RBL) pursuit of Scotiabank was to increase its economies of scale and become more competitive but notwithstanding the unsuccessful takeover bid, the Trinidad-headquartered bank is gearing to ramp up services to the oil and gas sector.

Residents of several West Coast Demerara (WCD) villages were forced to flee their homes as high tides early yesterday morning overtopped the seawall, flooding houses, and leaving many counting their losses.

The knife fight in Albert-town, Georgetown that left two men dead on Friday night stemmed from an argument over the purchase of cigarettes, the police said yesterday.

The Department of Public Information (DPI) has significantly cut the placement of state advertisement with Stabroek News and Editor-in-Chief Anand Persaud believes it is a clear “attempt to muzzle” the newspaper.

A Corentyne fisherman is believed to have drowned on Friday afternoon at the outfall at Number 66 Village, Corentyne, where he had been swimming. 

Foreign Affairs Minister Dr. Karen Cummings has urged Guyanese in the diaspora to exercise greater vigilance as she says Guyana’s “progress and prospects” has given rise to envy and skepticism by both local and international actors.

With a number of foreign oil and gas companies seeking environmental control and waste service providers for their operations here, local firm Cevons Waste Management Inc is moving to position itself to meet their needs while also advocating for national policy to include provisions to aid those that lack industry experience.

Former Attorney General Anil Nandlall has criticised the gazetted approval of the appointments of state councils and boards by Cabinet, which he says is continuing to illegally meet. 

At the age of 22, Abigail Brower was diagnosed with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS), a hormonal disorder which is common among women of child bearing age.

President of the Central Corentyne Chamber of Commerce Mohammed Raffik stressed on Friday that every single Guyanese must benefit from the revenue from Guyana’s impending oil production. 

Lie Yang, the Chinese national who was wounded during a robbery at her America Street, George-town business on Friday, is said to be recovering well in hospital.