Guyana News

Last week, two senators from France visited Region One to express France’s solidarity with Guyana in the face of Venezuela’s illegitimate and baseless claim on the Essequibo region.

Stabroek News spoke to members of the public at Timehri Base Road, East Bank Demerara about the rising cost of living and how it is affecting them.

The Guyana Fire Service (GFS) recently held a children’s fire safety camp at the Lusignan Community Centre that saw several schools from the East Coast Demerara in participation.

The Office of the President (OP)  here has posted images of Trinidad and Tobago’s Galleons Passage which it said will be operating between Guyana and Trinidad and later Barbados as part of the creation of a regional ferry service.

Even as government awaits funding on the US$759m gas-to-energy (GTE) project, works are forging ahead at the West Bank Demerara site with pipe laying, constructing of internal roads and a materials offloading wharf, pile driving, as well as land preparation and other tasks.

Vice President,  Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday said that the government  is working on a biometric project that will allow the authorities to use facial recognition software to track people with criminal records and pinpoint their exact location at any given time.

As Guyana works to establish the commission as agreed upon under the Declaration of Argyle for Dialogue and Peace between Guyana and Venezuela, ahead of the planned meeting in Brazil, this country will also swiftly ensure that an ambassador is appointed to Brasilia.

A Region Five, West Coast Berbice accident yesterday afternoon involving two motor cars has left a pedestrian dead and a parked lorry with damage.

Over 200 jobs will be added to the economy in Region Three through the operations of a $30 million marine facility at Nismes, West Bank Demerara, which was commissioned yesterday, the Department of Public Information (DPI) said.

The Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) and the Guyana Police Force (GPF) on Friday held a man at Crabwood Creek, Corentyne with over 200 lbs of ganja but another man escaped.

Prime Minister Mark Phillips commissioned two solar mini-photovoltaic (PV) farms at Aishalton and Karaudarnau in Deep South Rupununi, Region Nine on Friday.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) has stated its disapproval with the view that government spending on several new medical institutions around the country may be a case of unnecessary and questionable expenditure, and is being done at the expense of health workers.

Prime Minister (PM)  Mark Phillips has declined to answer why an entity that comes under his office refused to supply information that had been requested by the Public Procurement Commission (PPC) in relation to a probe of a complaint by Akamai Inc.

Yesterday, Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) officers conducted an operation in Norton Street, Wortmanville.

A technical team from the Guyana Water Inc. led by Chief Executive Officer, Shaik Baksh visited the well at Covent Garden, to inspect the ongoing drilling operations.

Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Anil Nandlall, says that Guyana’s procurement laws are archaic and need re-evaluation, and once this is done delinquent contractors will face the full brunt of the law.

Taxi driver, Delon Bristol, 31, of Lot 36 Archer Street, East Canje, Berbice, appeared before Magis-trate Delon Bess at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on Friday where he was charged with possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking.

Denger Lopez, 28, of no fixed place of abode, appeared before Magis-trate Delon Bess at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on Friday where he was charged with larceny.

An Assistant Superintendent of Police, a Detective Sergeant and four other ranks from Regional Division #3 were conducting a vehicular patrol in Bagotville, West Bank Demerara, at about 7.45 pm on Friday when they nabbed a man who was found to be in possession of 69.3 grams of marijuana.

Police ranks in Regional Division 4B were performing patrol duties at around 07:30 hrs this morning when they received information that a Toyota Axio motor car bearing registration #PAF 7021, was carrying suspected narcotics, and was proceeding north on the East Bank Demerara public road.