Guyana News

As the Working People’s Alliance (WPA) yesterday called on Guyanese youth to firmly press for their inclusion in government and policy making processes, party sources confirmed that it has recommended that Tabitha Sarabo-Halley replace Dr.

While encouraging its companies to explore investment opportunities in Guyana, particularly with the oil and gas sector expected to drive growth, the United States denied 70 per cent of the Guyanese who applied here for business/tourism visitor visas last year. 

A Canje Secondary School teacher died last evening after he was allegedly struck by a truck along the Corentyne highway.

  The daughter and son-in-law of Rookmin Jameer, the West Coast Berbice pensioner found at home with her throat slit on Friday evening, have been arrested.

While disclosing that just under 900 foreign nationals have been granted Guyanese citizenship since he took office in 2015, Citizenship Minister Winston Felix says the law was followed in each case and he has dismissed the recent claims by the opposition of corruption as unfounded and mischievous.

Chief Justice (ag) Roxane George-Wiltshire on Friday dismissed a petition filed by the Guyana Realty Investments Limited (GRIL) seeking a declaration of title for a property situated at the northwest junction of Regent and Alexander streets, in Georgetown, citing a lack of evidence.

A disagreement has erupted between GWI and the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB)-financed Basic Needs Trust Fund (BNTF) programme over the quality of water systems done by the latter in Region Nine.

The staff of the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) is not being paid on time and Chairman of its Board Jocelyn Dow on Friday said it is owed millions.

President David Granger’s current radiation therapy regime, as part of his treatment for Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, will conclude in the next four days, according to Guyana’s Ambassador to Cuba Halim Majeed.

By Laurel Sutherland Kevin Garbaran had mixed feelings about becoming a writer but when he decided to give writing a chance it rewarded him in ways he couldn’t imagine, like being shortlisted for the 2019 Commonwealth Short Story Prize.

At the age of 37, Sipho Vankenic, who was diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy (CP) shortly after birth, cannot walk or move on his own.

Born in the small village of Haraculi (Good Hope) Kimbia in the Berbice River, William Andrew Boyle has come a far way and his commitment and perseverance over the years have seen him establishing Eureka Medical Laboratory, one of the best known in the country.

Nine years after a minibus accident left him unable to walk, Uttamkumar Isurdeen has finally taken a step, which he says is only the beginning. 

During Tony’s Auto Spares’ official handing over of a Toyota Passo, which was the grand prize of the company’s ‘Driving Star’ promotion, it was revealed that the winner has donated the car to the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) The winner of the grand prize was Bhoopsingh Jagmohan.

The Region Five (Mahaica-Berbice) Regional Health Department will be constructing male and female surgical wards as well as an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) to accommodate patients at the Mahaicony Hospital.

Defending champions, Uprising, Beterverwagting [BV]-A, Melanie-B, Buxton Diamond and Paradise-A reached the group round when the Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ East Coast Demerara Championship commenced on Friday.

Annandale Secondary won the KFC Secondary School tapeball competition after defeating Patentia Secondary on Saturday at the Durban Park Tarmac, Homestretch Avenue.

The police in ‘G’ Division are in pursuit of a man suspected to have been involved in the death of businesswoman Nazarene Haniff, who was found dead at her home last Friday.

Selson Prescott, the businessman who was shot and robbed on Regent Street, in Georgetown earlier this month while on his way to a city bank, has been discharged from the hospital and is at home recuperating.

Distribution Warehouse sealed their semi-final berth in the Banks DIH Limited Inter-Department/Branch Tape-ball Cricket Championship, defeating Berbice by seven wickets on Friday at the Thirst Park venue.