Guyana News

A Guidance Place, South Ruimveldt Park family of four has been displaced after a fire, suspected to be an act of arson, gutted a house during the wee hours of yesterday morning.

Local Guyanese Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) company Emerge BPO is developing a new Georgetown campus that will significantly increase its capacity ahead of expected growth in the industry.

More needs to be done to ensure that young people fully understand sexual and reproductive health, according to Executive Director of the Guyana Responsible Parenthood Association (GRPA) Renata Chuck-A-Sang who also said that the country’s young need to be challenged more, educated more and provided with more options as there is more to life than what they are exposed to.

School of the Nations will be introducing a free year-long youth leadership programme in an effort to counter social issues that have been plaguing the country.

The Women and Gender Equality Commission (WGEC) on Friday officially launched its online Women’s Hall of Fame, which honours twenty-five (25) ‘sheroes.’

Months after the Code of Conduct for public transportation providers was launched, members of the United Minibus Union (UMU) in Bartica, Region Seven, have officially donned their uniforms.

Police have issued a wanted bulletin for Brazilian national Francisco Lima De Aguilar, who is accused of shooting a police constable during a recent attempt to arrest him for an unlicensed gun and ammunition.

Dhanmattie Sumara, the Berbice woman who was reported missing after she was seen being violently dragged out of a house by a family member last Tuesday, was discovered by police at Enmore North, East Coast Demerara on Friday.

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) yesterday informed its customers that its cable across the Demerara River in the vicinity of Craig, East Bank Demerara, was damaged as a result of “marine activity.”

Andaiye, rights activist, was today laid to rest. The funeral service was held at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre.

President David Granger yesterday announced that government would be seeking to resolve the tensions between the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) and the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL), while ensuring that the company gets much needed funding in a timely manner to meet its needs.

Newly-appointed Senior Counsel (SC) Stephen Fraser yesterday emphasised the importance of a functioning Judicial Service Commission (JSC) to the country’s judicial system and added his voice to the numerous calls made for the body to be reconstituted.

An East Ruimveldt man was yesterday fined and ordered to undergo counselling after he told a city magistrate that he was treating a one-year-old relative’s asthma with a cannabis tea as well as urine.

In a surprise decision, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Guyana (UG) Professor Ivelaw Griffith has withdrawn his request to renew his contract.

Over the next three years, communities in regions One and Nine will benefit from an India-UN Development Partnership Fund (UNDPF) project geared towards a 10 per cent reduction of adolescent pregnancy within indigenous communities.

Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) has resumed pumping water from the Kaituma River to supply residents after a four-week hiatus.

An Albouystown woman was yesterday remanded to prison after being charged in a city court with physically abusing a toddler, including burning her.

Damian James, who admitted to stealing a radio and tape set from a housemate, yesterday happily accepted a two-month sentence for the crime.

Concrete products manufacturer KSM investments Incorporated has moved to the High Court to fight what it says is a decision by the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) to overestimate the value of its cement imports without any explanation and demand higher duties and taxes as a result.

Legal constraints restrict the Guyana Power and Light Inc (GPL) from purchasing electricity from Independent Power Producers (IPPs) but the utility is working with government to find a solution, Chief Executive Officer Albert Gordon says.