Guyana News

Construction works on the Kitty Market are expected to resume shortly, as a $17.7 million contract has been awarded to BML Architects and Engineers for the completion of works in Phase One of the project.

The rebranded and upgraded ANSA McAL radio station – MIX FM – can now reach about 90 per cent of the Guyanese population with the expansion of their service to Linden.

The Berbice Bridge Company Incorporated (BBCI) has accused Minister of Public Infrastructure, David Patterson of lying to the nation during an interview on the National Communications Network (NCN) on August 17.

The Central Housing and Planning Authority (CHPA) has issued an advisory to the general public stating that the Authority is the only government department authorised to allocate housing units and lots.

Over 1,000 Georgetown participants graduated on Friday from the Guyana Police Force (GPF) and the Zara Computer Training Centre’s several computer training programmes, which ran from September 2018 to August 2019.

The Public Affairs Office of the U.S. Embassy in Georgetown has announced the annual competition for the Hubert H Humphrey Fellowship Program.

Inspectors from the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) on Friday visited the runway of the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) to gain a firsthand understanding of what transpired during the aborted takeoff of American Airlines (AA) flight 1512 on Wednesday.

The report, ‘Bourda vendors get community service after feud erupts into violence,’ which was published in the August 23rd edition, incorrectly stated that vendor James Brown was ordered to do community service.

The Regional Democratic Council (RDC) Region Ten is appealing to the public for urgent assistance in securing a number of items for several residents whose houses were damaged in an early morning storm today.

Attorney General Basil Williams has “partially appealed” the August 14 ruling by acting Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire which upheld the legality of the House to House (HtH) registration exercise but also declared that existing registrants cannot be excised from a new voters’ list unless they are deceased or otherwise disqualified under Article 159 (2), (3) or (4).

Bail was yesterday granted to the Deputy Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) Andre Kellman after he was formally charged with sexually assaulting an airport employee just over a year ago.

After another three hours of discussion yesterday, the members of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) have still not reached a decision on the way forward with the opposition-nominated commissioners accusing their colleagues of using “delaying tactics” to stymie developments.

The Court of Appeal has denied former Housing Minister and current People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) presidential hopeful Mohamed Irfaan Ali a stay of his prosecution on the 19 fraud charges levelled against him over the sale of land in the ‘Pradoville 2’ Housing Scheme.

Acting Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire SC yesterday ruled that the order signed by former Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Chairman James Patterson for the conduct of the national house-to-house registration exercise is neither invalid nor illegal.

From September 1st  Trans Guyana Airways (TGA) will be offering flights to Amsterdam, the Netherlands via Suriname through a partnership agreement with Royal Dutch Airlines, KLM.

Vinnette Headley-James, the mother of eight who was fatally stabbed by her husband at her Nabaclis Sideline Dam, East Coast Demerara (ECD) home on Wednesday afternoon, suffered years of abuse and had even been stabbed days before the fatal attack, a neighbour has said.

The government will sell the problem-plagued High Street building that once housed the state radio station as part of a plan to relieve the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) from its current financial woes.

Executive member of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) and Minister of Citizenship Winston Felix has defended his government’s record on crime declaring that the party takes “pride in the efforts that government has made to rid Guyana of corruption and bribery.”

A man who claimed he was “set up” after he agreed to keep almost 36 pounds of cannabis just before the police showed up to search his house, has been sentenced to three years and a half years in jail.

Another 50 Guyanese youths yesterday graduated from TOTALTEC Oilfield Services training,   taking the total up to 250 since the company was birthed early last year and  prompting Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo to say it is the most “tangible manifestation” yet of local content in the industry.