Guyana News

The Commonwealth Writers, a cultural initiative by the Commonwealth Foundation, will next month be launching a book, titled ‘We Mark Your Memory: writing from the descendants of indenture,” and hosting a writing workshop in Guyana.

Recognising that miners are not working efficiently, the Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association (GGDMA) has set up a Technical Services Unit (TSU) which, while currently manned by one employee, is intended to increase the productivity of the sector.

The Medical Council of Guyana has begun discussions on the findings of investigations into the deaths of three children, who died at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) in January after being administered cancer drugs.

Forty youth entrepreneurs will be honoured this Thursday at Brand YOUth’s inaugural forty under forty entrepreneurial awards, being held under the theme ‘Building Bridges, Passing Batons’.

At the end of 2018, Guyana’s public debt had increased by 1.5 per cent, a figure representing 43.9 per cent of the country’s GDP, with a significant portion (33.9 per cent) comprising external debt.

Beneficiaries of the Hinterland Employment and Youth Service (HEYS) continue to receive financial support under the initiative, with 119 North and Central Rupununi youths recently receiving stimulus grants amounting to $6 million in total.

While legislation that deals with unexplained wealth already exists, Attorney General (AG) and Minister of Legal Affairs, Basil Williams SC says that it will be given a second look.

President David Granger returned to Guyana last evening after completing his regime of radiation therapy in Cuba and he has been advised against trying to manage a heavy workload immediately.

An 18-year-old was stabbed to death while his parents were injured after they were attacked on Friday morning at Timehri, on the East Bank of Demerara.

Some foreign nationals seeking citizenship are providing fake addresses on their applications.

Months after he was shot and injured following an attack at his home, School of the Nations Director Dr Brian O’Toole is trying to remain hopeful that his attacker will be caught and brought to justice, while fearing that there has been a “cover-up” in the case.

She started her journey in the education field as a trainee teacher at the tender age of 15 and for 40 years was methodical and committed to improving the sector that prepares the leaders of tomorrow.

Since ExxonMobil’s oil discoveries offshore Guyana, a number of global oil majors and oil support companies have established their presence here, with local offices and other facilities secured through leases or acquisitions.

Seventeen-year-old Mae Allicock is the winner of the Annual Rupununi Rodeo pageant, where her indigenous wear, a first for the event, set her apart from the other contestants and guaranteed her this year’s Rodeo Queen crown.

One week after more than $67 million worth of contracts were awarded by the Region Four administration, nine others were awarded, amounting to nearly $75 million, for civil works.

A Corentyne man is now a patient under guard at the New Amsterdam Public Hospital and three other persons are in police custody, after a shooting incident on the Corentyne.

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Cash-strapped Rio de Janeiro is using prisoners as “volunteer workers” to maintain jails in a move that human rights experts said was illegal and treated inmates like slaves.

A Canefield Settlement, East Canje, Berbice woman is now a patient at the New Amsterdam Public Hospital after she was struck by the tray of a truck on the Number 19 Public Road on Thursday evening.

More than two weeks have passed since murder accused Shaheed Ally was brutally beaten while in custody at the Lusignan Prison and the police are yet to identify the perpetrator/s of the crime.

OSLO,  (Reuters) – When Norway’s largest political party decided that the Lofoten Islands in the north should not be opened up to oil exploration, a chill ran down the spine of the energy industry.