Guyana News

Students of St Ignatius Secondary School in Region Nine are expected to return to school on Monday, June 10, after an abrupt closure of the school due to sanitary issues.

An arrest warrant will be issued for the former Attorney General Anil Nandlall if he fails to show up at a city court for the next hearing in the proceedings against him for the alleged fraudulent conversion of law reports.

A mid-morning fire suspected to be electrical in origin, yesterday destroyed the top floor of the G3 business complex at Diamond Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara.

The National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute (NAREI) has been conducting research into the utilisation of coconut husk by-products for agricultural purposes and recently acquired a coconut shredder.

The body of an East Canje, Berbice man who went missing on Monday, was discovered on Wednesday morning in the Canje River, in close proximity to the riverbank.

A Berbice woman has been reported missing after she was violently taken from a friend’s house in Warren Village, East Berbice, around 1 am on Tuesday.

The township of Linden will soon be benefitting from its first ever women’s shelter and two new community centres following an agreement between the United States Security Cooperation Office (SCO), the Guyana Defence Force (GDF), and the Ministries of Communities and Public Health of Guyana.

The mother-in-law of a 22-year-old mother of six who passed away after having her right eye removed, is seeking answers as to the cause of her death.

The authorities monitoring the well explosion that is suspected to have been caused by natural gas are yet to ascertain its true nature as investigations continue, the Civil Defence Commission (CDC) said yesterday.

Minister of Public Infrastructure, David Patterson, yesterday disclosed that Norway has approved the transferal of $16 billion (US$80m) through its Climate Mitigating Ministry, which will finance the construction of 30 megawatts of solar photovoltaic farms with storage.

Floodwater has receded enough to allow vehicular traffic between Lethem and Aishalton, Aishalton’s Toshao Michael Thomas has said.

According to Leader of the Opposition Bharrat Jagdeo, the Minister of Public Infrastructure David Patterson should take responsibility for the frequent power outages currently being experienced.

A Haslington youth was yesterday granted his release on $2,000 bail after denying the alleged theft of a SIM card.

President David Granger, last evening, said the United Kingdom remains a strategic partner of Guyana, even as he noted that the relationship between the two countries has provided valuable assistance to Guyana in numerous areas.

Attorney General Basil Williams is attempting to adduce new evidence in the various cases which were heard before the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) pertaining to the motion of no-confidence in Parliament on December 21, 2018 and for which decisions are pending.

A second Guyana Power and Light (GPL) Inc. submarine cable was disrupted today due to another a maritime accident, four days following the disruption of its major  69kV submarine cable.

(This is the second of a series of articles by Transparency Institute of Guyana Inc on the Production Sharing Agreement signed between the Government of Guyana and Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited, a subsidiary of ExxonMobil.)

With the Guyana Power and Light Inc.’s (GPL) submarine cable expected to take more than two weeks to be repaired, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the power company says they are putting emergency plans in place to reduce the frequency of blackouts.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) yesterday said that the onus is not on the Government of Guyana to fund the replacement of the Canawaima Ferry Service, noting that it has, over the years, funded most of the vessel’s maintenance works.

The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) appears set to sell lands that were transferred to the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL) by a 2017 Order.