Guyana News

Despite being disappointed by the limited number of artworks that participating countries are allowed to feature at the upcoming Caribbean Festival of Arts (CARIFESTA) in Trinidad & Tobago, the Guyanese Visual Arts delegation is confident that the selected pieces will leave an impression at the event.

Ricoldio Kyte, the 31-year-old interior shopkeeper who pleaded guilty to two charges of illegal possession of firearm and ammunition last week, was yesterday sentenced to one year in jail.

Darrel John, who faced a charge of possession of ecstasy, yesterday had the matter dismissed by a city magistrate.

A Rose Hall Town, Corentyne fire on Wednesday has left an elderly woman homeless, after the two-storey wooden and concrete house she took care of was completely destroyed.

A taxi-driver and his passenger have both been found innocent of a firearm possession charge.

Dr Balwant Singh’s Hospital yesterday, announced the appointment of Guyana’s first embryologist, Ganesh Persaud, as head of the In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) laboratory at the hospital in Georgetown.

Commander-in-Chief, President David Granger, presented Lieutenant (Lt) Britany Van Lange with her Instrument of Commission on June 27 last, solemnising her status as an officer of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF).

President David Granger today met with the members of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) and reassured that government will continue to respect its independence and await its advice on the holding of “credible elections,” while appearing to back down from his previous hardline position on the need for house-to-house registration to update current voter database.

President David Granger and his APNU+AFC Cabinet are following the directions of Attorney General Basil Williams and will not be resigning, Director General of the Ministry of the Presidency Joseph Harmon said yesterday.

Denied survivor’s benefit by the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) she never knew she was entitled to until 26 years after the death of her husband, a High Court judge last week declared that Ismay Lake is entitled to the benefits stemming from the more than one thousand contributions her husband Vibert would have made to the Scheme when he was alive.

The Board of Inquiry (BoI) ordered by President David Granger to investigate the arbitrary dismissal of three workers by Minister of Public Service Tabitha Sarabo-Halley has recommended that the trio be reinstated.

In line with earlier reports in the Sunday Stabroek, Haitians entering the country move rapidly to exit the country via Lethem and local bus operators continue to make connections with them at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport upon arrival.

Owayne Lynch, the Stevedore taxi driver who was found dead at Cemetery Road, Mocha Arcadia, with multiple wounds about his body on Tuesday night, was heard arguing about money with his passengers shortly before his death.

President David Granger has invited recently appointed  GECOM Chairman Claudette Singh and all six of the GECOM Commissioners to a meeting today to discuss the elections body’s state of preparedness for general elections, sources last evening confirmed.

Cabinet has agreed that the ministers of Natural Resources and Finance would engage to examine short and medium-term remedies to enable the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) to make outstanding payments to staff, which could include tapping the Contingencies Fund.

Longstanding member of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) Dave Danny Jr last evening announced his exit from the party and said he has now pledged his support to the opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP).

Kopinang in Region Eight was recently added to the list of interior destinations in Guyana to where persons resident in the area can travel or take cargo by air without having to pay Value Added Tax (VAT), joining a list of 53 other interior airstrips that enjoyed such status since February 2017.

An investigation into the accident which occurred in May and left a teen as a patient of the hospital for over two months before he succumbed, is still ongoing.

A 25-year-old resident of Sophia is currently in a critical condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) after he was shot on Saturday afternoon, allegedly by a policeman who was attempting to arrest him.

A fisherman was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with raping a woman.