Guyana News

A Linden couple is seeking answers from the Linden Hospital Complex after the death of their newborn baby shortly after delivery on Monday night.

Contractor, China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) is responsible for the failure to meet the December 31, 2018 completion date for the Cheddi Jagan International Airport expansion project which could see 5% of the US$150M contract sum withheld and utilized as liquidated damages, sources say.

President David Granger yesterday morning departed Guyana for Cuba where he will undergo the fourth round of treatment for Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma.

The Guyana Defence Force last evening slammed reports that it was preparing for general elections in June.

It is still not clear when the two Chief Whips will meet with the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to discuss its readiness to hold general elections but at least one Commissioner is hoping that the Chairman’s health is a main item on the agenda when the meeting does occur.

The Surinamese rice exporter whose body was discovered on Monday with a single gunshot to his forehead was reportedly brought to Guyana through the Number 63 Beach, Corentyne route.

Compton Reid, the private citizen who filed the first of three court actions brought following the December 21 passage of the no confidence motion against the government yesterday said that he is anxiously awaiting the outcome of the case.

The Guyana Government on Monday announced the selection of the ‘Guyana Hinterland Programme: Solar PV Grid Tie Farms’  for financing by the Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD).

A taxi driver was yesterday granted bail after he was charged with sexually abusing an 11-year-old girl.

Guyana’s fight against the H1N1 Virus also known as Swine Flu will be primarily focused on non-pharmaceutical measures as there is not enough of the vaccine available locally for mass administration.

Former President Donald Ramotar says that when his government was faced with a no-confidence motion from the opposition in 2014, it received legal advice from an attorney that at least 34 votes would be needed for the passage but he and his chief legal advisor did not believe that it would hold up in court and feared that it would cause public upheaval. 

The Local Government Commission (LGC) has written to the Auditor General to conduct a forensic audit of the accounts of City Hall, as recommended by the recent Commission of Inquiry (CoI).

Two persons including the adopted son of 76-year-old retired police officer Cyril Persaud, whose decomposed body was found floating in a canal at D’Urban Backlands on Sunday have been detained for questioning in connection with his murder.

The Department of Fisheries of the Ministry of Agriculture is moving to finalise amendments to regulations needed to restart the export of catfish to the United States of America, according to Head of the Department Denzil Roberts.

With the possibility of general and regional elections this year, Opposition Member of Parliament Juan Edghill has called on the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) to extend its monitoring to social media.

A Cumberland Village, East Canje, Berbice businessman was yesterday afternoon robbed of his car and over $400,000 in cash at Crabwood Creek, Upper Corentyne.

Justice Franklyn Holder on Friday began hearing legal arguments in the court action challenging the 19 ‘Pradoville 2’ charges laid against former PPP/C Minister of Housing, Mohamed Irfaan Ali.

The Region Four Council (RDC) has recently employed a Deaf youth to work as a plumber/handyman at the Friendship Health Office.

Chris Pollard, a youth accused of robbing a man of personal items, was yesterday granted bail after he pleaded not guilty to the charge.

Medical specialists from the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) recently conducted a medical outreach among the residents of Waipa and Karisparu, in Potaro-Siparuni, Region Eight.