Guyana News

A New Amsterdam youth was electrocuted yesterday afternoon after coming into contact with live wire while working on a utilty pole at Section B, Clonbrook, East Coast Demerara.

A father of three was yesterday remanded for the almost decade-old murder of an East Coast Demerara fuel dealer.

A Commonwealth Secretariat team that was scheduled to visit Guyana this week has postponed its visit pending a decision by the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on the validity of last December’s no-confidence vote against government.

As it moves to begin its third round of lymphatic filariasis Mass Drug Administration (MDA), the Ministry of Public Health is looking for help from private citizens and the private sector so that it can better reach the rural and hinterland regions of Guyana.

The Institute of Private Enterprise Development (IPED) is reporting that its gross loan portfolio as at December 31st, 2018 grew to $3.008 billion, representing an increase of 7% from $2.806 billion in 2017.

Although still grappling with fallout from the disruption of its flight schedule in wake of last November’s crash landing of one its planes at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri, Fly Jamaica Airways is hopeful of resuming operations here in a couple of months, according to Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Captain Paul Ronald Reece.

The town of Mabaruma, Region One, will be focusing on developing its main ports, the Mabaruma airstrip and the Kumaka waterfront, to boost its tourism sector.

President David Granger on Wednesday accredited non-resident High Commis-sioners of Botswana and Zambia to Guyana and expressed hope of improved bilateral relations with the two countries.

It is imperative that the Caribbean Court of Justice hears the appeal of the no confidence decision within at least two weeks, economist and politician, Peter Ramsaroop has opined.

The trial of an Essequibo miner, who is accused of the rape of a 12-year-old, ended without a decision yesterday as jurors were unable to arrive at a verdict.

For little more than an hour on Monday, Mayor Ubraj Narine, with support from several members of the Georgetown City Council, accused the city administration “putting his life in danger” after it refused to remove a longstanding staff member so that his personal driver could be designated a chauffeur.

The National Insurance Scheme (NIS) has decided to host a public outreach at its head office in Georgetown next Friday.

The Civil Defence Commission (CDC) yesterday reconstituted its National Disaster Risk Reduction Coordination Platform (NDRRCP), which has been non-functional for almost two years. 

In the wake of the likely convening of Parliament and the ruling of the High Court that dual citizens should not be sitting in the National Assembly, A New and United Guyana (ANUG) today called for the MPs in question to either renounce their foreign citizenship or to resign from the House.

Despite the pending decision of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) in the no-confidence case, President David Granger said yesterday that parliament will soon be reconvened to approve the $3.5B recently requested by Chairman of the Guyana Elec-tions Commission (GECOM) James Patterson for holding of general elections.

Hundreds of persons yesterday  turned up at the Square of the Revolution, to take part in the ‘Government comes to you” initiative.

Canadian goldminer, Guyana Goldfields Inc (GGI) saw a big slump in earnings from its Region Seven mine in 2018 and production fell by 10,050 ounces compared to 2017.

A  Guyana Defence Force soldier yesterday succumbed to injuries sustained after being involved in a  vehicular accident on Tuesday evening.

A six-year-old child of Epsom Village, Corentyne, has died after being struck by a hire car along the Corentyne Highway on Tuesday afternoon.

Crime Chief Lyndon Alves yesterday told Stabroek News that investigators are on the hunt for the suspect involved in the fatal shooting of Collis Collison.