Guyana News

The Integrity Commission has identified 75 more public officials whom it said have failed to submit declarations of their assets and liabilities and heading what is now the seventh list to be released, is Chairman of the National Procurement & Tender Administration Board, Berkley Wickham.

The two University of Guyana (UG) unions last evening condemned the reversal of an earlier decision by the UG council to send Vice Chancellor Professor Ivelaw Griffith on standard end-of-contract leave from tomorrow.

Six companies have submitted Expressions of Interest (EoIs) for office space at the newly expanded Cheddi Jagan Inter-national Airport (CJIA) but one current operator, Terrence Campbell, said he did not submit a bid because he does not want to be left tied to a lease without a ground handling operating licence.

Qualified Guyanese youth are a step further to seeing their dreams of employment in the emerging oil and gas sector being fulfilled in the wake of a career fair hosted by Schlumberger Guyana.

A young Guyanese with a passion for wildlife photography would soon be taking us on a journey to remote areas with the launch of his mini documentary series on adventure tourism titled ‘Inside REEL.’

Residents of Station Street, Kitty, are calling on the authorities to resolve a problem of noise nuisance within the community.

Aircraft operators and residents of Port Kaituma have expressed concern over stray cattle and dogs roaming in the community and more so, the airstrip.

A four-year sentence was on Thursday handed down to an Alberttown man who was in December, 2017 found with 125 pounds of ganja.

Mother’s Day is an annual occasion which celebrates a mother’s contributions to her family life, and although motherhood is challenging, having children is one of the greatest joys that can be experienced.

Fourteen years ago, an Indian national left his home country and travelled to Guyana to take up a positon as a lecturer in the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Guyana and today is Director of the university’s Berbice Campus.

Two major power failures experienced on Friday, were the result of system disturbances to the Demerara-Berbice Interconnected System, caused by the short-circuiting of the Kingston transformer, the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) has reported.

Junior Minister of Social Protection, Keith Scott last week Thurs-day visited the New Amsterdam Technical Institute (NATI), where he was made privy to training efforts between the Institute and the Board of Industrial Training (BIT).

The Child Care and Protection Agency (CCPA) in collaboration with Blossom Incorporated and Child Link on May 10, 2019, concluded four days of training in forensic interviewing for professionals.

Student nurses from far-flung communities in Berbice and Region Nine will no longer have to suffer the inconveniences of travelling to classes, thanks to the newly commissioned living quarters constructed for them in the compound of the New Amsterdam School of Nursing.

As they had done the day before, judges of the CCJ yesterday continued to exhibit disfavour with the 34-32 formula that the government has advanced to thwart the December 21, 2018 motion of no confidence and the President of the court, Justice Adrian Saunders, rebuffed  as inapplicable, a case which state lawyers had cited as a precedent.

-key promises remain unfulfilled With today marking four years since the 2015 General Elections, the APNU+AFC government has boasted of its achievements since winning power, saying that within a short space of time, it has achieved more than any previous administration but key elements of its 2015 manifesto including constitutional reform, remain unfulfilled.

Investigators probing the gunning down of 20-year-old Patrick Fraser on Thursday night while he was liming with friends at an abandoned house in Bagotstown, East Bank Demerara believe he was the victim of a “hit”.

Almost two years after the passage of the Tobacco Control Act, the Tobacco Control Council was officially launched and held its first meeting yesterday.

Hard Rock Café Guyana was officially launched at MovieTowne Guyana’s Turkeyen location yesterday and is expected to open to the public this weekend.

A psychiatric evaluation has been ordered for Shamar Harvey, the youth who was charged with the murder of Albouystown teen Christopher Mansfield, who was gunned down in March as he was making his way to a football field at West La Penitence.