Guyana News

An Essequibo Coast sluice attendant is currently hospitalised after he was shot when armed bandits invaded his home on Monday night.

More than 5,000 hinterland students are expected to benefit from the implementation of a digital learning platform, after an agreement was signed between the Education Ministry, the Organisation of American States (OAS), and ProFuturo Foundation.

Two Barbadians, who along with two Guyanese and another were charged with being part of a drug ring, an allegation which US authorities later threw out, have lost their bid to have their matters ‘dismissed with prejudice’ (extinguishing any right to pursue a claim in another suit) following the United States Court of Appeals denial of their appeal.

The Mayor and City Council is looking to urgently relocate its Treasurer’s Department to the recently rehabilitated Kitty Market following the development of mould and fungus within City Hall.

Director of the Department of Energy, Dr. Mark Bynoe, yesterday morning, met with a high-level Ghanaian delegation here to engage the Government on areas of mutual interest in the oil and gas sector. 

The Mayor and Councillors of Georgetown yesterday voted to reopen a bank account for the City’s Social Development Committee so that staff and other community members can have access to small loans outside the “bureaucracy of the treasurer’s department”.

Hukumchan Inshanally, the Albion Estate cane harvester whose body was found on Monday afternoon in a canal in Hampshire backlands, died from drowning, an autopsy revealed yesterday.

Attorney Mark Waldron, who is representing attempted murder accused Maryann Daby, yesterday argued that the police have failed to make their case for the charge against the woman.

In the May 24th edition of Stabroek News at page 16 under the headline `Money-laundering conviction against Superbet principal requires AML/CFT audit – Gaming Authority’, it was reported that there was a money-laundering conviction against a principal of Guiana Holding Inc. 

The 11th and final advisory committee meeting of the Green State Development Strategy (GSDS): Vision 2040 was held yesterday, after months of consultations.

A new Combatting of Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Act, which will govern the response and prosecution of TIP cases, is currently being drafted for consideration, and is expected to be completed by year’s end.

A Bartica miner is now a remanded prisoner after being charged with possession of cocaine and marijuana, which police say were found in his possession during a raid.

Tenders were yesterday opened at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board for the rehabilitation of the Archives Buildings at Base Camp Ayanganna.

President David Granger yesterday expressed sympathy to the family of Edward Seaga, fifth Prime Minister of Jamaica, who died yesterday afternoon at the age of 89 in the United States .

The Finance Secretary of the Ministry of Finance, Michael B. Joseph has rejected an online report on the extent of procurement breaches under this government.

A Guyanese man has been arrested in Florida after he crashed a car into a tree, resulting in the death of his wife, and he fled the scene. 

The two unions at the University of Guyana (UG) say they have been vindicated by a decision of the UG Council to have an evaluation done of the performance of outgoing Vice-Chancellor, Professor Ivelaw Griffith before any decision is taken on a possible new contract.

As Jamaican singer Buju Banton prepared to leave Guyana yesterday he left a message for President David Granger.

The body of an Albion Estate cane harvester, who went missing on Friday, was discovered yesterday afternoon in a canal at Hampshire backlands.

The Guyana Gold Board (GGB) yesterday defended the issuing of a dealer’s licence to Adolphus Mining Inc saying that a 2011 gold incident connected to it did not result in any charges or fines.