Guyana News

(Reuters) – U.S. author Toni Morrison, whose 1987 novel “Beloved” about a runaway slave won a Pulitzer Prize and contributed to a body of work that made her the first black woman to be presented the Nobel Prize in Literature, has died at the age of 88, her publisher said on Tuesday.

The union, GAWU says it has been told that Minister of Natural Resources, Raphael Trotman was to have sought a subvention at Cabinet yesterday for outstanding payments to workers of the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC).

Quacy Jupiter, the 18-year-old who on Monday told a city court that he committed two armed robbery attacks because he was hungry and had no money, has been sentenced to spend the next two and a half years in jail.

The two drivers who were allegedly racing along the Number 41 Village, West Coast Berbice Public Road,  resulting in the death of pedestrian, Gregory Stanley, have been charged with driving under the influence of alcohol.

Two weeks after a court found that a case was made out against Rickland Bovell, the cabbage farmer accused of fatally stabbing 18-year-old David Toney at the Timehri Docks in April, the defence reopened its case for a final witness.

A Matthews Ridge resident was placed on bail yesterday after he denied stealing a piece of mechanical equipment worth over $2 million in the North West District.

Tenders were on Tuesday opened at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board for the rehabilitation of the Port Kaituma Airstrip in Region 1 and the Phillapai Airstrip in Region 7 Ministry of Public Infrastructure Rehabilitation of Hinterland Airstrips: -Rehabilitation of Port Kaituma Airstrip, Region 1 -Rehabilitation of Phillapai Airstrip, Region 7

The National Park in Thomas Lands, Georgetown, is set to benefit from a number of initiatives aimed at enhancing its facilities so that visitors engaging in recreational pursuits could do so in relative safety.

The cast of Mark Angel Comedy yesterday paid a courtesy call on Minister of Social Cohesion, Dr.

(Barbados Nation) The body of the woman found along the beach at Hastings, Christ Church, has been identified.

Under pressure over the last year to account for hundreds of Haitians who have arrived in this country but did not leave legally, Minister of Citizenship Winston Felix yesterday said that the police have found no evidence of people smuggling and he called recent reportage on this matter “xenophobic”.

With oil production scheduled to commence from March next year, Minister of Finance Winston Jordan says that just above US$100 million will likely be available for Budget spending in 2020.

Without general elections by September 18, the “ship of Guyana sails into unchartered constitutional waters and nobody knows just what will happen”, political commentator and former Speaker of the National Assembly, Ralph Ramkarran told an American Chamber of Commerce in Guyana (AmCham) event last evening at the Marriott Hotel.

Acting Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire SC is expected to make a ruling next Wednesday on the challenge by Christopher Ram to the ongoing house-to-house registration exercise.

Justice Gino Persaud last Friday ordered that three Mahaicony residents be compensated a total of almost $8 million for their unlawful arrest and the impoundment of a vehicle by the Guyana Police Force.

International cricketer Christopher Barnwell is now free on bail after he was charged yesterday with assaulting a police officer during a cricket match.

His escaping imprisonment only through presidential respite is one of the key issues Minister of Finance Winston Jordan will consider as he mulls a possible return to his current post if asked by the APNU+AFC coalition to serve again, should they win the next general elections.

Newly-appointed Chair of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) retired Justice Claudette Singh will preside over her first meeting of the commission on August 15, one day after the acting Chief Justice, Roxane George  provides a ruling on a challenge to the House-to-House registration exercise underway.

Bariel Hall, the 18-year-old who remained a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital after being the victim of a hit and run accident just over two months ago, succumbed to his injuries yesterday morning.

Chairman of the Corentyne Fishermen’s Co-operative Society Parmeshwar Jainarine yesterday recommended compensation and protection for victims after pirate attacks.