Guyana News

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – A series of vote-catching measures planned by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi as he braces for a difficult general election may cost more than 1 trillion rupees ($14 billion), two sources with direct knowledge of the matter said.

The Palms Geriatric Home and the Mahaica Children’s Home on Tuesday received one Special Needs minibus each, at a total cost of $11.4 Million, from the Ministry of Social Protection, according to the Department of Public Information.

Attorney General Basil Williams SC on Friday maintained that the resolution certifying the passage of the December 21st no-confidence motion against the government is invalid as it required the support of an “absolute” majority of the 65 members of the National Assembly, even as the attorney for opposition leader Bharrat Jagdeo pointed out that there is no such qualification in the constitution.  

The Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) has filed civil forfeiture proceedings against a Venezuelan woman, who was found in possession of a large amount of cash, suspected to be the proceeds of drug trafficking, at her East Bank Demerara residence in January last year.

Lennox Shuman, presidential candidate of the Liberal and Justice Party (LJP) says he has met with the Canadian High Commissioner to Guyana on his intention to give up his Canadian citizenship in order to meet the criteria for entering the Guyana Parliament and to vie for the office of the President in upcoming general and regional elections.

A police constable who has been identified as the rider of the motorcycle that was involved in the accident last Wednesday which claimed the life of pillion rider John Walcott along the Sisters Village, West Bank Demerara Public Road, is currently under close arrest.

Investigators probing the murder of taxi driver Kelvin Walters, who was fatally shot on the Eccles, East Bank Demerara public road last Tuesday night, are still to question the suspects in police custody.

Health Minister Volda Lawrence and Dr William Adu-Krow, PAHO/WHO Representative in Guyana on Monday appealed to the local media for help in popularising the SMART Hospital initiative currently being undertaken.

The Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) has completed its investigation of a recent rejected rice shipment to Panama and will soon seek legal advice.

Power Producers Distributors Incorporated (PPDI), Chief Executive Officer, Aaron Fraser says that the company’s achievement of the ISO 9001 certification “marks a significant milestone.”

Unprecedented amounts of seaweed which surfaced on Caribbean shores last year has seen the Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM)  initiating a regional fact-finding study to document the impacts this phenomenon has been having on countries in the region since 2011.

India and the CARICOM Development Fund (CDF) signed a Contribution Agreement on January 19th, 2019, in Paramaribo Suriname which provides for a grant allocation of US$1m to the CDF’s capital fund.

(Reuters) – Part-time off-spinner Roston Chase took eight wickets as West Indies recorded their third biggest ever win by runs, a crushing 381-run defeat of England in the first in Barbados on Saturday.

A meeting between commissioners of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) and the Government and Opposition Chief Whips on the electoral body’s preparedness for general and regional elections ended yesterday without any clear indication of how soon the polls could be held.

Royston King has been fired from the post of Town Clerk and the Local Government Commission (LGC) has asked the police and the Auditor General to investigate his tenure as chief administrative officer of the Georgetown City Council.

An autopsy yesterday determined that the baby that was found in a latrine at Goed Fortuin, West Bank Demerara on Wednesday was stillborn.

A day after the death of Sharezer Mendonca, the third child to have died after receiving pre-chemotherapy treatment at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), her family was plunged into further turmoil after learning that her body was handed over to another family for burial.

The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) will soon disclose who it supports for the APNU+AFC coalition’s President and Prime Ministerial (PM) candidates at the upcoming general elections but President David Granger has the support of party executive David Hinds.

Cabinet has been updated on the police investigation of former government Member of Parliament (MP) Charrandass Persaud and is now awaiting a fuller report, Minister of State Joseph Harmon said on Thursday.

State Minister Joseph Harmon has said he recently briefed Charge d’Affaires of the United States Embassy Terry Steers-Gonzalez on the no-confidence motion against government and subsequent developments.