Guyana News

In a heated exchange in the National Assembly yesterday, APNU+AFC MP Volda Lawrence raised concerns about the increased expenditure on security services for primary, secondary, and post-secondary education, asking whether the hike would cover the entire year of 2024, and whether it included a rise in both hourly rates and the number of security personnel.

Denise Hilliman was yesterday set free by Justice Damone Young at the High Court in Demerara after a 12-person jury returned a verdict of not guilty on charges of attempting to commit murder and felonious wounding.

Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand, yesterday commissioned the newly reconstructed Western Hogg Island Primary School.

-cites parliamentary practice Citing parliamentary practice, the Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports Charles Ramson has declined to name those who received creative industry grants from his ministry.

In response to a question posed by APNU+AFC MP Vinceroy Jordan,  Minister of Agriculture Zulfikar Mustapha announced during the 89th sitting of Parliament yesterday that the Abary sluice door, which was damaged by spring tides on November 15th, will be fully repaired within three weeks.

Residents in the neighbourhood of Conversation Tree for the first time will be able to sit, relax, or go for a calming walk, now that the newly completed Conversation Tree Boulevard is open,  a Department of Public Information (DPI) release stated yesterday.

(Reuters) – Maine yesterday became the latest state to sue major oil companies including Exxon Mobil (XOM.N) and

-believed to have been maliciously set A fire caused extensive damage to a wooden and concrete two-storey building at Lot 9, Second Alley, Wismar, Linden yesterday.

Thirty-eight-year-old Jason Carmichael appeared yesterday before Magistrate Fabayo Azore at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court charged with two counts of possession of ammunition without a licence.

On Tuesday at approximately 6.30 am, Police ranks from Regional Division #1, acting on information received, went to the shop of Eon Park located at Barama Line, Baramita, North West District.

Mayor of Georgetown, Alfred Mentore, has confirmed that no meeting has yet taken place between the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) and Qatar Assets Group regarding the disputed Carifesta Avenue lands.

Ovid James, 37, a miner from Mahdia, Region Eight was stabbed to death yesterday morning following an alcohol-fuelled row with a man believed to be a Brazilian, according to a release from the police.

The Department of Public Information (DPI) says that  a sod-turning ceremony for a state-of-the-art hospital in the Moruca Sub-district in the north west took place yesterday.

-following November 21st meeting United States Exim Bank (US EXIM) officials on Thursday met to discuss the US$660 million loan for this country’s gas-to-energy project but no decision has yet been made and the project is listed in the pending category 17 months on.

With one woman fighting for her life after being brutally knifed and chopped allegedly by her fiancé and another chopped to death by her partner there is no question that intimate partner violence remains a serious problem in Guyana and to shine a light on this scourge a ‘Red Shoe’ project was hosted at Kingston Seawall Esplanade on Monday The project, which took the form of a display of shoes, each pair representing the life of a woman who has been affected by gender-based violence, was hosted by the Civil Society National Reference Group (CSNRG) in collaboration with UN Guyana and the Women and Gender Equality Commission (WGEC).

Four Venezuelans yesterday appeared before Magistrate Fabayo Azore at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court where they charged with the attempted murder of a policeman.

Police are investigating the death of Devon Nigel Williams, a 28-year-old labourer of Lot 806 ‘C’ Field Sophia, which occurred at about 10 am yesterday.

Guyana and The Bahamas have signed an open skies Air Services Agreement to promote and facilitate airlines to operate air services between the two countries, as well as other countries, a release from the Ministry of Public Works announced yesterday.

-as Guyana establishes First Central Authority under Hague convention The launch of its first Central Authority under the 1983 Hague Adoption Convention, is paving the way for ethical and internationally recognised standards in inter-country adoption with the official opening of the Guyana Central Authority yesterday, at its new headquarters at Fifth Street, Alberttown, Georgetown.

Twenty-six-year-old Philon Edwards, a Guyana Defence Force rank of Number 30 Village, West Coast Berbice, appeared yesterday at the Blairmont Magistrate’s Court before Magistrate Ravindra Mohabir where he was charged with attempting to murder his fiancée, Litisha Reynolds.