Guyana News

Close to 160 workers from the Bauxite Company of Guyana Incorporated (BCGI) in Region Ten began striking yesterday to protest the company’s imposition of a one per cent hike in wages without collective bargaining.

Prominent businessman Inderjeet Beharry, whose name ‘Indi’ graces the popular curry powder produced by the Beharry Group, died yesterday.

A massive outreach, which will see 19 ministers visiting 28 Rupununi villages in three days, is nothing but “normal government business,” according to Minister of State Joseph Harmon.

As the Court of Appeal prepares to hear applications by Attorney General (AG) Basil Williams for orders to stay the effects Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire’s judgments on the validity of the no-confidence vote against government and to keep the president, the Cabinet and government, former Attorney General Anil Nandlall yesterday said it should be focused on disposing of the substantive appeals.

Alliance for Change (AFC) leader Raphael Trotman has declined to comment on the way forward regarding the dual citizenship of several government parliamentarians and informed that the party and its coalition partner, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), are currently working on a joint position.

The family of a baby who allegedly suffered burns at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), and who was discharged but subsequently readmitted and died there, are calling for answers and the hospital says an investigation has been launched.

The Shipping Association of Guyana (SAG) yesterday said it is engaging legal counsel to appeal the recent ruling of the Competition and Consumer Affairs Commission (CCAC), which found it guilty of “price fixing” in the handling of containers and fined five of its members $3.8 million each.

A fraud convict was yesterday charged with defrauding a businessman of over $2 million in phone credit by impersonating Minister of Public Health Volda Lawrence from prison.

A man and his pregnant girlfriend were yesterday remanded to prison after being read charges that they defrauded persons of over $5 million.

A Cuban man was sentenced to nine months in jail yesterday after he pleaded guilty to a charge of breaking and entering and larceny.

A Route 45 minibus driver and conductor, who are accused of attacking a traffic policeman on Wednesday, have since been apprehended and will face several charges in the new week.

A third person was yesterday charged with wounding a policeman and robbing him in an attack last December near an Alberttown nightclub.

Justice Dawn Gregory-Barnes on Thursday declined to grant an application for a stay in the fraud proceedings against attorney Anil Nandlall in the Magistrate’s Court on the ground that a single judge in chambers does not have the jurisdiction to grant such a request.

The management of JR Burgers has pulled the plug on the day-to-day operations of the fast food restaurant after 13 years.

The Bank of Guyana (BoG) will begin circulation of an updated $1,000 note from March 4th.

City Hall has relaunched a campaign to have “encumbrances,” including derelict vehicles, removed from city streets and roadsides following the recent death of a motorist, whose vehicle crashed into a truck parked along Princes Street.

Justice of Appeal Rishi Persaud will next Wednesday hear the applications made by Attorney General Basil Williams SC, to stay the effects of two of Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire’s judgments on the December 21st no-confidence vote against government and to keep the president, the Cabinet and government in place until the appeals he has filed are heard and determined.

A Guyanese boy was stabbed to death near a Bronx bodega on Wednesday evening and the killer is still on the run, police say.

Breaking his silence after the United Kingdom recently terminated his contract, former Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) adviser Dr.

Maintaining that the opposition People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) will only return to the National Assembly to deal with setting a definitive date for general elections, Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday said he foresees a constitutional crisis as government is still to act with just over a month left before the constitutional deadline.