Guyana News

The Hydrometeorological Service yesterday launched the Enhancing National Climate Services (ENACTS) initiative, which seeks to improve the availability, access and use of climate information.

Minister of Communities, Ronald Bulkan, has assured the residents of Bartica that plans are underway for the development of a new Housing Scheme.

The Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Guyana (FITUG) has urged the unconditional acceptance of the rulings of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) regarding the validity of the December 21 no-confidence motion against the government and the appointment of the elections commission chairman and has urged leaders to find a consensual way forward.

The Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy (GCoM) was launched last week in Port of Spain, Trinidad during the Caribbean Urban Forum (CUF) of 2019.

Minister of Public Health, Volda Lawrence, on Wednesday announced that by year’s end, Region Seven (Cuyuni-Mazaruni) will have a new resident psychiatrist, improving residents’ access to psychiatric care and services.

President David Granger on Tuesday reminded the students of St John the Baptist Primary in Bartica, Cuyuni-Mazaruni, Region Seven, that education is important and emphasised his Government’s motto of ‘Every child in school’ (ECIS).

Six Ministry of Education (MoE) Cadet Officers on Monday commenced a three-week attachment in Pomeroon-Supenaam, Region Two, where they are assigned to schools in the Pomeroon River.

Two young men died on Wednesday night after their car crashed into a coconut tree along the Fort Wellington Public Road and then exploded.

Political party, A New and United Guyana (ANUG) yesterday urged that a shared governance arrangement be entered into by the two main political forces until the next elections and that no contracts be awarded or policy decisions made during that time.

Savita Persaud, the owner of the Liquid Love Bar located on Station Street, Kitty, who was tried for several offences including trafficking two Venezuelan women for sex, was yesterday sentenced to a total of 10 years for the crime and ordered to pay restitution to the victims.

Joel Simpson, Managing Director of the Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD), says the act of hate crimes complainants being turned away from police stations and referred to another, is “daunting and breaks your spirit”, noting that it takes a lot of courage for one to report a matter to the police.

Seventy-six-year-old Edward Richards, the eldest from a Wakapau Village family that was hospitalised over the weekend after they mysteriously fell ill, is now the second victim to succumb within days, from what relatives suspect is cyanide poisoning.

Facing a Monday deadline for government and the opposition to agree on the way forward following the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) decision that the December 21 no-confidence vote against the APNU+AFC administration was valid, President David Granger yesterday was tightlipped on government’s proposals.

Seon Paul Singh is currently awaiting sentence for the 2012 killing of his common-law wife, Indrawattie Sugrim, whom he knifed to death on the morning of November 25th. 

Rayon Dick was yesterday morning sentenced to time served for the unlawful killing of cook—Hubert Albert, whom he stabbed back in 2007.

A man who is accused of discharging a loaded firearm on the grounds of  the Lusignan Golf Club during a private event on Easter Sunday, was granted bail after he was charged with the crime, and his supernumerary precept was revoked.

The extradition proceedings against ex-policeman Shawn Darcy Neblett, officially commenced yesterday, with the testimony of the Treaty Officer at the Ministry of Public Security.

A prison warden who was allegedly found with over 100 grammes of cannabis during a security search at the Camp Street Prison, was yesterday remanded after he was charged with the offence at a city court.

Following an advisory by the Ministry of Public Health (MPH) urging members of the public to get vaccinated against measles, checks by Stabroek News at several city health centres found that they have the vaccine in stock.

A Berbice River man was murdered sometime yesterday at his Sand Hill, Upper Berbice River resident.