Guyana News

The Guyana Chronicle yesterday explained that a layout glitch was responsible for the errors in naturalisation notices that were highlighted by opposition leader Bharrat Jagdeo as evidence of corruption and it said that corrective action was immediately taken.

Two men were remanded to prison yesterday after being jointly charged with robbing a traffic rank of his cellphone and cash.

The death of a Leguan youth has left his family calling on the police to conduct a thorough probe into his death, since they believe foul play was involved.

Residents of Jonestown, Mahaica, are concerned about the length of time that contractors are taking to construct a bridge in the community, and are calling on authorities to provide clarity on the situation.

The prosecution yesterday closed its case against the three men charged with the murder of Bourda Market vendor Troy Ramalho.

NABI/KCL Oilfield Construction Services Guyana yesterday announced that it has been awarded the contract to build the new office facilities of Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL) at Ogle, East Coast Demerara.

About 100 cane harvesters who were transferred to the Albion Estate after the closure of the Rose Hall Estate yesterday protested for severance payment over the conditions they are facing at the estate.

Political party A New and United Guyana (ANUG) has welcomed the government’s announcement that its Members of Parliament (MPs) who hold dual nationality have resigned their positions and will not be returning to the National Assembly. 

A delegation from the Ministry of Public Health, over the last two days, commissioned and re-commissioned laboratories and health centres across Region Six.

The Guyana Sugar Corporation Inc. (GuySuCo) is calling on the relevant authorities to clear the Non-Pareil, East Coast Demerara reserve of squatters before the rainy season begins, in order to prevent severe flooding to surrounding villages and agricultural lands.

The pre-fabricated steel cells meant to accommodate an additional 180 prisoners at the Camp Street Prison, are already on-site to be erected, Minister of Public Security, Khemraj Ramjattan said.

An Early Childhood Development Centre was yesterday commissioned at Ithaca Village, on the West Bank of Berbice, an initiative that Minister of Education, Nicolette Henry, believes will lead to fewer students being placed in Special Education programmes during their primary years.

A second miner from the Guyana Manganese Inc (GMI) this morning succumbed at the Georgetown Public Hospital after being critically ill for days.

NABI/KCL Oilfield Construction Services Guyana today said it has been awarded the contract to build the new office facilities of Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (ExxonMobil Guyana) at Ogle, East Coast Demerara.

The three PPP/C parliamentarians who hold dual citizenship will by next week hand in their resignation letters to the Speaker of the National Assembly, Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo said yesterday.

The article in the Constitution that bars persons with dual citizenship from sitting in Parliament “is doing Guyana (a) disservice and therefore it needs to be amended,” AFC leader and Minister of Natural Resources Raphael Trotman has said.

Chair of the Guyana National Newspapers Limited (GNNL) Board, Geeta Chandan-Edmond, cast the deciding vote to remove Sherod Duncan from his position as General Manager of the state newspaper, the Guyana Chronicle.

One day after announcing that its four ministers who hold dual citizenship have resigned as parliamentarians, government yesterday informed that the resignations will not take immediate effect as certain constitutional steps have to first be followed.

Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday accused the Department of Citizenship of “corruption” following the publication of notices for naturalization, where the same photograph of two applicants appeared on two different occasions but with different names and addresses.

A woman who was busted at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) with 10.6 pounds of cocaine hidden in books, was yesterday sentenced to four years in jail and fined $13.1 million.