Guyana News

Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), retired Justice Claudette Singh, spent her first day yesterday being briefed on the functioning of the agency by its senior managers and has scheduled meetings with the two sides of the Commission today.

V G Siddhartha, the owner of Vaitarna Holdings Private Inc (VPHI) of India, which controls  forest concessions in Guyana amounting to 737,814 hectares has been found dead.

Keon David, the ex-policeman who is wanted by the police in connection with the fatal shooting of Sophia resident Kurt Duncan at Seeta’s Bar on Monday morning, was not a licensed firearm holder.

Guyana’s current chicken shortage will be rectified by mid-August as local farmers have placed adequate supplies of chicken on their farms that will reach production age by that time, the Guyana Poultry Producers Association (GPPA) said yesterday in a press release.

Following a tumultuous couple of months, Canadian mining company Guyana Goldfields Inc.

Acting Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire SC will be hearing arguments on Friday afternoon on the request of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) that she recuse herself from presiding over the challenge filed to the ongoing house-to-house registration exercise.

Representatives of the National Mine Workers Union of Guyana (NMWUG) yesterday walked out of a meeting with the Department of Labour as they say the engagement did not address any of the issues of Aurora Gold Mines Inc.

(Barbados Nation) Vijay Persaud’s journey had many ups and downs, but each step helped to propel him to the heights of NASA.

The Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) has in the past three years ensured the reclamation of over 40 acres of land previously used for mining and has spent approximately $100 million on the process, according to Commission-er Newell Dennison.

A Grove construction worker is now a remanded prisoner on an attempted murder charge after allegedly chopping his neighbour with a cutlass.

A city magistrate yesterday committed a taxi driver to stand trial for the alleged rape of a woman.

The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) has refuted an item appearing in the Kaieteur News on July 28, which stated that the union had been delinquent in its submission of annual tax returns and filing of annual returns with the Registrar .

The Maritime Administration Department (MARAD) is continuing its work with the United States Coast Guard on Port Safety Management.

ExxonMobil has relinquished 20% of the Canje Block, offshore Guyana, and Director of the Department of Energy Dr Mark Bynoe says some things will have to be put in place before reallocation.

A nine-month sentence was yesterday handed down to Revelana Smith after she was found guilty of wounding a fellow prisoner.

Tenders were yesterday opened at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board for the construction of a number of police Divisional Headquarters across Guyana including at  Anna Regina, Mabaruma, Fort Wellington and Mahdia.

A youth accused of possession of a stolen motorcycle was granted his release on bail yesterday after denying the charge.

The Caribbean Vocational Qualification (CVQ) will be piloted in 11 schools starting September 2019, according to a release on Monday from the Ministry of Education.

Ten students from junior secondary schools in Georgetown began a five-week paid internship on Monday July 22, with several private sector Information and Communications Technology (ICT) enterprises in Georgetown   According to a Ministry of Public Telecommunications (MoPT) release, the internship is a direct spin-off of a “Travelling Symposium” that the Ministry conducted last March with an outreach to the St Mary’s, Lodge, Carmel, Queens-town and Charlestown Secondary Schools. 

Several persons have been questioned as the police continue to probe the murder of well-known Guyhoc Park mechanic Reginald Atherly, who was shot on Saturday when bandits invaded his home.