Guyana News

Eleven Guyanese are the latest beneficiaries of the UK Government’s Chevening Scholarship Programme.

The Amerindian Peoples Association (APA) and key partners have embarked on a two-year project aimed at the demarcation and titling of Indigenous lands in Guyana and the revision of the Amerindian Act.

A year after government agreed to pay the sum as part of its agreement with the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU), teachers will be paid four years’ worth of Clothing Allowance as part of their September salaries.

In the absence of a 2020 budget being passed, government will be unable to take on new projects but will be able to use 1/12 of this year’s provisions to keep the country running after the budget cycle ends at the end of this year, Minister of Finance Winston Jordan has said.

People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) executive Aubrey Norton has accused Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo of seeking to create “confusion” with his declaration that the government has been operating illegally since March 21st.

There was no “amicable resolution” of the dispute between the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL) and the Linden Blue Lake energy project’s investors over the legitimacy of a lease for the area and this has resulted in the latter party taking legal action.

The Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) is projecting the production of over 325,000 tonnes of rice at the end of the current crop after a significant increase in the amount of hectares that were sown.

Pinnacle Communications, the parent company of RCA Television, Mega 102.1 FM and 91.7 FM, on Friday honoured the top five Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) performers from the Essequibo Coast.

Minister within the Minis-try of Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs Valerie Garrido-Lowe last evening told a handful of Corriverton residents that based on information from President David Granger, general elections will be held this year.

Giving the  APNU+AFC a “mixed review” and apologising for its shortcomings while in office, APNU member the Working People’s Alliance(WPA) yesterday announced that it would remain in the governing coalition for the next elections and pledged to be active in ensuring that promises are kept.

Both Guyana and Britain have dismissed as untrue a claim by Russia that a British military base is being constructed within the Essequibo River to train Venezuelan refugees to destabilise the Nicolas Maduro-led government.

A city magistrate yesterday struck out charges brought by police against four owners of Superbet betting shops, who were to be charged with operating without licences. 

Infrastructural upgrades under the Sophia segment of the Inter-American Develop-ment Bank (IDB) funded Adequate Housing and Urban Accessibility Programme are 25 per cent completed and the majority of the works are expected to be finished before the project end date of March 2020.

The sod was turned yesterday for the construction of a $1.2 billion permanent headquarters for the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) and China has been hinted as a possible source of funding for the project.

Minister of Citizenship Winston Felix has again condemned claims of illegalities regarding Haitian travellers to Guyana, saying that of the 8,476 Haitians who arrived here between January and July 2019, 6,925 of them reported to Brazilian immigration officials after crossing the border, which separates the two countries.

Georgetown’s Mayor and City Council yesterday announced that residents of Sophia, Liliendaal, Pattensen and Turkeyen are exempted from paying interest on rates accrued up to December of this year.

Guyanese Professor Stafford A. Griffith has been named as Interim Pro Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the Five Islands Campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI), located in Antigua and Barbuda.

Director of Maritime Safety John Flores yesterday voiced the need for regulatory and enforcement agencies to have more resources in order to properly monitor vessels plying their trade in Guyana’s waters.

Santa Rosa Mission, in the Moruca sub-region of the North West District, in Region One, is now without electricity due to a burst power line, while residents and businesses in the region’s Mabaruma township have had to contend with a reduction in their power supply due to mechanical problems affecting one of the generators servicing the area Regional Chairman Brentnol Ashley yesterday told Stabroek News that a power line burst while some residents were cutting a tree at Santa Rosa.

  A bus driver was yesterday sentenced to six weeks in jail after he admitted to assaulting a conductor.