Guyana News

Optique Vision Care on Thursday evening opened its fifth branch, located in the MovieTowne Mall at Turkeyen, which boasts a fully computerised office that will be operated with the use of an electronic health records system.

A new $10 million health centre building was commissioned on Wednesday at Leonora, on the West Coast of Demerara.

After noticing the positive impact cleanup campaigns have been having on the city, the Georgetown City Council along with volunteers from a range of communities yesterday hosted another one.

The outgoing Indian High Commissioner to Guyana Venkatachalam Mahalingam on Wednesday paid a courtesy call on President David Granger at the Ministry of the Presidency (MoTP). 

The police yesterday reported that ranks of ‘E’ Division have conducted two drug eradication exercises, which saw the destruction of more than eight acres of cultivated cannabis.

Derrick Rambharrat, the Linden schoolboy who was critically injured last Wednesday after he was allegedly struck down by a speeding car along the Amelia’s Ward Access Road, succumbed to his injuries yesterday.

ExxonMobil’s Liza Destiny, the first oil production vessel which will be placed in Guyana’s waters has been officially dedicated by First Lady Sandra Granger.

Attorneys for Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo, Christopher Ram and Charrandass Persaud have proposed that the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) order that Cabinet, including President David Granger, resign and that a date be set for general elections within a three-month period as a result of the court upholding the validity of the no-confidence motion that was passed against the government last December.

With a Monday deadline looming for a consensus before the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) hands down orders that could see the holding of polls within a few months, Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday said he has been invited by the government to a meeting next week.

Scores of APNU+AFC coalition government supporters took to the streets in key areas around the country yesterday to press for a national house-to-house registration exercise to be held before the holding of the next general and regional elections.

Three years after government faced a scandal over the rental of a Sussex Street drug bond from a party member for millions of dollars, the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) yesterday commissioned a 428.5 square metre bond extension at its Diamond, East Bank Demerara facility, costing some $161 million.

President David Granger has signed into law the Supplementary Appropriation Act that was passed last month to provide the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) with $3.5 billion in funding for the holding of general and regional elections in 2019.

Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited (RBL) is urging customers to vigilantly monitor their accounts even as it works to find a permanent solution to the recent spate of “Brute-Force” attacks which resulted in fraudulent transactions through its international VISA OneCard.

Ramlackhan Rup, the Air Services Limited (ASL) security guard who was critically injured after he was reportedly struck down by a car driven by a soldier last month, succumbed to his injuries on Wednesday evening.

Autopsies which were done on the bodies of Danny Ross Dunraj and Kelvin Atherly-Ward, the two youths who died after their crashed car exploded, have revealed that they died due to smoke inhalation and shock from burn injuries they suffered.

A Linden schoolboy is currently on life support at a city hospital after he was allegedly struck down by a speeding car along the Amelia’s Ward Access Road on Wednesday.

Breaking its silence, the Guyana Police Force (GPF) last evening confirmed that an internal investigation is presently ongoing into bombshell corruption allegations against ranks in ‘B’ Division (Berbice) as well as a senior officer.

Vehicles seized by the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) are disposed of in a “fair and consistent manner,” Commissioner-General Godfrey Statia said yesterday as he dismissed allegations that such vehicles were fraudulently transferred to persons sympathetic to the government.

Board Chairman Leslie Sobers yesterday maintained that the Guyana National Broadcasting Authority (GNBA) did not willfully deny Guyana Publications Incorporated (GPI), the publisher of the Stabroek News and Sunday Stabroek, a radio licence, while noting that the company only became fully compliant in October last year, by which time all the primary zone frequencies were already allocated.

Guyana has for the third consecutive year maintained its Tier 1 ranking in the latest United States State Department report on Trafficking in Persons (TIP), which recognises its sustained efforts while also noting shortcomings in protection and shelter outside the capital and the lack of a standard operating procedure for protecting foreign victims.