Guyana News

An afternoon outing for a family ended tragically on Sunday when a woman was killed and her husband and one of their three children were injured after they were struck by an intoxicated truck driver along the Canal Number One, West Bank Demerara Public Road.

A recently-completed independent technical report has found that the reserves at Guyana Goldfields Inc.’s

Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited recorded an after-tax profit of $1.887b for the first half of fiscal 2019, a hike of $532m or 39.2% when ranged against the corresponding period last year.

Elon Thomas, the gold miner who was abducted on Sunday afternoon by a group of men after witnessing the murder of a co-worker at Hubana, Kuribrong, in Region Eight, has been found unharmed.

The courts of Guyana and the CCJ are very likely to uphold “the Reynolds Defence” so that the defence of fair comment on a matter of public interest would carry far higher weight and importance than it did in the 1960s to the 1990s.

The Government has remembered late former Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretary-General, Sir Meredith Alister McIntyre as one of the region’s “most illustrious sons,” whose yeoman service included serving as the first Good Officer of the United Nations Secretary-General for the Guyana-Venezuela border controversy. 

In his Easter Message,  Roman Catholic Bishop Francis Alleyne cited matters pertaining to the December 21, 2018 motion of no confidence against the government and said it cannot be business as usual.

For 2018, the public sector’s total financial operations saw a reduced deficit due to an expansion in Central Government’s current revenues, but non-tax revenues declined by 23.8%, according to the Annual Report of the Bank of Guyana.

The interest of Guyanese businesses in the oil and gas sector is higher than anticipated, according to Director of the Centre for Local Business Development (CLBD) Patrick Henry, who says that of the 2,675 businesses registered with it over the past two years, 1,573 are local. 

The Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) will be working towards the upgrading of the existing 5km 69kV transmission line, known as L5, as part of an effort to reinforce the transmission infrastructure of the Demerara-Berbice Interconnected System.

Berbicians who were protesting the level of service offered by the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) at the ‘Government comes to you’ event in Berbice last week, did not raise their concerns with the utility despite it having a presence at the event, GWI says.

Sixty Linden youths are being trained in patient care, according to a release yesterday from Region 10.

Tomorrow, an independent team of high-level persons from across the region, established as the Chancellor’s Commission on Governance, will host a public forum to listen to Governance issues related The University of the West Indies (The UWI).

Minister of State, Joseph Harmon on Sunday pledged Government’s continued support to lift  the profile of the annual Bartica Regatta and to transform it into a  “truly national event”.

Buxtonian kite maker Marvin Cole and his assistants create kites as efficiently as any factory line, with each specialist leaving a mark on the final creation.

A driver, who had seen persons stripping a vehicle and reported same, was yesterday afternoon fatally shot and a gold miner who witnessed the killing was abducted in the mining district of Hubana, Kuribrong, Region Eight, and remain-ed missing up to last night.

A mysterious fire on Saturday morning destroyed a bridge utilised by farmers to transport their produce in Canal No.2 West Bank Demerara and an investigation has been launched by the Guyana Fire Service to determine the cause.

Aerial shots of what appeared to be remnants of an oil spill in the Essequibo River has turned out to be huge beds of sargassum seaweed which is now a major nightmare for fishermen.

Two dilapidated cottages in Kitty were yesterday afternoon destroyed by fire in what neighbours believe was the result of one of the occupants forgetting about a lit kerosene stove.

From May 2nd, the Charlestown Post Office will be closed to the general public until further notice, according to an advertisement in the Sunday Chronicle, which advised that persons will have to use the main post office on Robb Street.