Guyana News

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has started training for staff for national house-to-house registration.

Political party A New and United Guyana (ANUG) has issued a call for citizens to break the cycle of generational race hate plaguing the country by rejecting racialised politics.

The Ministry of Natural Resources yesterday said it has taken note of reports in circulation to the effect that there is the dispossessing and withholding of mining lands for small miners in favour of mining syndicates.

Cognizant of the fact that cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are leading causes of death globally and that Guyana is not immune, the Ministry of Public Health has approached PAHO/WHO to introduce locally its HEARTS technical package, which provides a strategic approach to improving heart health.

The Mayor and Councillors of George-town have approved another extension of the city’s contracts with five small garbage collection companies while they are set to meet Puran Brothers Disposal Inc and Cevons Waste Management to possibly work out a way forward on their contracts.

Two men were yesterday remanded to prison after being charged with armed robbery.

The University of Guyana Law School was the first runner-up at the 11th Annual CCJ Inter-national Law Moot, also capturing the award for Best Academic Institution at the end of the event on Friday.

Relatives of the Cummings Lodge miner who was crushed to death last Saturday night in Mazaruni, are devastated by his sudden death, and are still awaiting further information on the matter from the police.

A mason facing two counts of armed robbery is now a remanded prisoner after a city court heard that one of the victims positively identified him to police.

Eighty-two police ranks from ‘G’ Division on Saturday underwent training at the Anna Regina Police Station (Divisional Headquarters) from Special Superintendent Lawrence Kissoon and Assistant Superintendent Nolan Burnette of the Police Office of Profes-sional Responsibility.

A National Gender and Social Inclusion Policy has been developed by government, Minister of Social Protection Amna Ally announced earlier this month, relating that it is to be implemented during the second quarter of this year.

Festival City’s Youth and Parent Organisation has begun a clean-up exercise which aims to restore the community to its former glory, according to the Department of Public Information (DPI).

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – Two Caribbean prime ministers previously critical of Dave Cameron’s leadership of Cricket West Indies have welcomed the election of Ricky Skerritt as the new president of the regional governing body.

An 80-year sentence was today handed down to Victor Bobb for the 2010 murder of supermarket owner Dennis Ramah.

The opposition PPP will not attend any sitting of the National Assembly before the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) pronounces on its appeal against Fri-day’s Guyana Court of Appeal ruling invalidating the passage of the December 21 no-confidence motion against the government.

Concerns about liability coverage in the event of oil spills and other accidents, and meeting local insurance requirements are yet to be resolved between ExxonMobil and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) resulting in a stalling of works at the company’s Stabroek Block, sources say.

Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) says it had to import 14,000 tonnes of molasses last year for its rum operations as a result of the shortfall in the sugar industry.

By Wednesday, Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo will file an appeal at the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) challenging last Friday’s ruling by the Guyana Court of Appeal that invalidated the passage of the December 21 no-confidence motion against the government.

Stressing that a country’s natural resources do not belong to politicians, leader of Suriname’s Progressive Reform Party, Chandrikapersad Santokhi says that wealth management should be assigned to independent authorities or commissions and the populace must be able to benefit directly from the monies generated.

The Demerara Mutual Life Assurance Society Limited is suing a former employee for allegedly defrauding the company of over $40 million.