Guyana News

Under the theme ‘Engineering for First Oil and Beyond,‘ the University of Guyana (UG) yesterday launched undergraduate and post-graduate degree programmes in the area of petroleum engineering.

CARICOM Heads of Government have sounded their “grave concern” over the political instability in Venezuela and have offered to assist in mediation to prevent further crisis.

The Georgetown City Council will over the next two months, intensify the provision of routine environmental and health services as it joins the fight to prevent a dengue fever outbreak in Guyana.

The Mayor and Councillors of the City of Georgetown yesterday announced plans for a cleaning exercise on Sunday within the Stabroek ward.  

Officials from the Ministry of Education (MoE), led by Minister Nicolette Henry, visited the Mae’s Schools yesterday to offer support to students following the suicide of teenaged student Vanica Schultz on Thursday.

Local poet and University of Guyana (UG) student Renata Burnette is set to host what is being billed as “the poetry event of the year” in order to raise funds to pay her tuition fees.

The accused in the murder of Godfrey Phillips, the shop owner who was stabbed to death last Sunday at Sophia, was remanded to prison on Thursday after he was charged with the crime.

A  Kuru Kuru, Soesdyke-Linden highway resident was yesterday remanded to prison after being charged with cultivating marijuana.

A Kumaka bar owner was yesterday charged with attempting to murder a man who remains hospitalised with life-threatening injuries.

After operating illegally for over a year, a popular Diamond, East Bank Demerara Chinese eatery, Georgie’s Restaurant, has been ordered shut by the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA).

Om Singh, the Danielstown, Essequibo Coast resident who died on Sunday after he reportedly collapsed at the Anna Regina Police Station, where he was taken after allegedly assaulting his wife, died as a result of heart failure.

A 60-year-old man was remanded to prison on Thursday after he was charged with simple larceny at a city court.

The Leader of the Opposition, Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo,  today met with the Chairman of CARICOM, Dr.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said today he has reached a deal with U.S.

Town Clerk Royston King has been fired by the Local Government Commission for alleged gross misconduct.

Stressing that threats have been made to Guyana’s territorial integrity as far back as 1969 when the Rupununi Rebellion occurred, President David Granger yesterday reminded officers of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) of their responsibility to secure the state.

As government deliberates on proposals submitted for the sale of three shuttered GuySuCo estates, Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo has warned that should his People’s Progressive Party (PPP) be re-elected to office, it will not honour the deals.

An Assistant Superintendent of Police was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with the rape of a 13-year-old girl.

Attorney General Basil Williams SC on Wednesday said the selection of Senior Counsel (SC) is at the discretion of the president, who can alter the list of candidates recommended to him by the Chancellor of the Judiciary.

The Trinidad Cement Company (TCL), through a collaboration with its parent company, Mexican building materials company Cemex, yesterday commissioned a concrete plant that represents an investment of over US$1 million and currently employs 35 Guyanese directly.