Guyana News

Although rehabilitation works are due to start on the dilapidated Leguan Stelling sometime this year, the Ministry of Public Infrastructure has been forced to mobilise for emergency repair works after the stelling’s low ramp broke on Monday.

Sales and consumer traffic have decreased at the Giftland Mall as a result of the roadblocks erected for official activities at the nearby Arthur Chung Conference Centre preventing many customers from getting to the mall, according to Chairman of the Giftland Group Roy Beepat.

A city shop owner was remanded to prison yesterday after he was charged with possession of narcotics.

Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo’s office has alleged that heavily armed persons associated with the  opposition were within the precincts of Parliament during the consideration of the no-confidence motion on December 21st last year.

Over the Christmas holidays, the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) detained a large number of drones as they were brought into the country without the requisite permit.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) on Monday opened its first regional tax office at Mabaruma, in Region One.

International consultancy firm on Oil and Gas, Bayphase of the United Kingdom yesterday tendered a US$281,000 bid to provide services to the Natural Resources Ministry. 

A Diamond Housing Scheme man was yesterday granted bail after he denied a charge of being in possession of $325,000 in counterfeit $5,000 notes.

A teen was yesterday granted bail by a city magistrate on a charge of unlawful possession of a firearm.

Hundreds of persons showed up on Sunday at the International Decade for People of African Descent Assembly- Guyana’s (IDPADA-G) “One Stop Business and Family Welfare Conference.”

Minister of State Joseph Harmon on Monday noted that a key element for the success of the Green State Developmental Strategy: Vision 2040 is sustainable land management and development which includes the mitigation and prevention of land degradation.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s government struck back at self-declared interim president Juan Guaido today, with the Supreme Court imposing a travel ban and freeze on his bank accounts despite a warning from Washington of “serious consequences” if it did so.

Guyana has fallen by one point in the latest Transparency International (TI) Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) Report but it was listed among the 20 countries which have significantly improved their scores in the last seven years.

After failing to meet its December 31st, 2018 deadline for the completion of the US$150 million Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) expansion project, Chinese contractor China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) is being penalised US$7,000 per day until the work is completed, Minister of Public Infrastructure David Patterson announced yesterday.

Residents and farmers at Ann’s Grove village, on the East Coast of Demerara, are calling for better drainage, which they say is currently being neglected by their neighbourhood council.

The privately-run School of the Nations, in George-town, has decided against resuming classes today in order to address continuing concerns by parents about security measures in light of the recent threat to students that was made on Facebook. 

Basdeo Lallchan and Jonathan Ramkellawan, the two men who were injured on Saturday after a Guyana Police Force vehicle transporting the Police Commissioner collided with their truck, are blaming the police driver for the accident and they say he should be held accountable.

Given the developments in wake of the passage of the December 21st no-confidence motion against government, Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday told representatives of several diplomatic missions and international organisations that a constitutional crisis is brewing.

Public Health Minister Volda Lawrence yesterday disclosed that her ministry has requested technical assistance from the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) to aid in the probe of the deaths of  three children at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC) after they were administered with chemotherapy treatment.

Diplomats from the United States, Britain, Canada and the European Union (EU) were yesterday briefed on the process of elections preparation utilized by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM).