Guyana News

Director of Regional and Clinical Services Dr Kay Shako today denied that there is a shortage of drugs and human resources at the Diamond Diagnostic Centre on the East Bank.

Khemraj Ramjattan has been unanimously selected as the new leader of the Alliance For Change (AFC) at the party’s ongoing National Executive Conference (NEC), where he is also hoping to win support as its proposed Prime Ministerial candidate for the APNU+AFC coalition at the next general elections.

The sale by the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL) of two Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) transmission towers to a Bobby Vieira’s Multicultural Communica-tions Inc.

Minister within the Ministry of Finance Jaipaul Sharma is to be appointed as the new Minister within the Ministry of Public Infrastructure, which is where he says the Head of State wants him.

-call for probe of divestment of assets Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) managers have appealed to Agriculture Minister Noel Holder to seek the urgent intervention of President David Granger to immediately remove Colvin Heath-Venture from overseeing the divestment of its assets, while accusing him of pursuing a “vendetta” against the company.

The Board of Directors of the Guyana Power and Light Inc.

If the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) upholds the validity of the no-confidence motion against the government that was declared passed last December, the opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP) will be “pressuring” the administration for the holding of early elections, party General Secretary Bharrat Jagdeo vowed yesterday.

A motorcyclist is now dead after he collided with a Route 40 (Kitty – Campbellville) minibus at the intersection of Vlissengen Road and Regent Street.

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Chairman, retired Justice James Patterson, has informed the commission’s Legal officer, Excellence Dazzell, that he has no confidence in her.

Heavy rainfall in the Rupununi has delayed the commencement of works on the Lethem to Aishalton road, which was recently damaged by flash flooding, Chairman of the Region Nine Democratic Council Brian Allicock says.

An investigation by the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) of the procurement of consultancy services for the Feasibility Study and Design for the new Demerara River bridge has found that no criminal offence has been committed.

Describing the press statement released by Alliance For Change (AFC) executive Imran Khan on Thursday as a “strategy,” outgoing party General Secretary Marlon Williams late yesterday afternoon said that he was still not in possession of a formal complaint about the alleged threats Khan has said he and his wife have received.

President David Granger has commissioned a Board of Inquiry (BoI) to investigate alleged misconduct by staff of the Department of Public Service.

June Alexander, the 10-year-old girl who was critically injured on Monday following an incident at the Regma Primary School at Mackenzie, Linden, succumbed at a city hospital yesterday afternoon.

The use and sale of synthetic drugs by school-aged children is worrying and disturbing, the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) has said in its 2018 annual report, which related that the majority of those drugs are smuggled through the Suriname border.

The lifeless body of a 17-year-old was on Wednesday evening discovered on the Charity Public Road, Essequibo Coast, and an autopsy has confirmed he was the victim of a hit-and-run accident.

A Corentyne man is now a patient at the New Amsterdam Public Hospital after he was chopped several times by a known drinking buddy of his on Wednesday afternoon.

A city magistrate yesterday committed a security guard to stand trial for the attempted murder of three men at the Meadow Bank Wharf.

A 38-year-old domestic worker who is accused of stealing over $5 million in jewellery from her employer was granted her release on bail yesterday after she denied the charge.

The driver of the vehicle assigned to Mayor of Ubraj Narine, who was involved in the accident in which Buxton resident Mitford Cambridge was killed along the Turkeyen Public Road on Tuesday, has been released on station bail.