Guyana News

Transparency Institute Guyana Incorporated (TIGI) Presi-dent, Troy Thomas has called on President David Granger and Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo  to show maturity and to utilize compromise to bring an end to the current impasse regarding top appointments to the judiciary.

Guyana Goldfields Inc is currently building a new 2,000-metre airstrip at the Aurora Gold Mine (AGM) on the Cuyuni River to replace the one in use as the dike of the mining pit is being extended to include a section of the current runway.

While many mothers are enjoying this Mother’s Day with their families, it would be just an “ordinary” day for Dhanrajie Seebarran, who is more concerned about where her next meal would come from.

The family of former sports journalist Rene Stoby has embarked on a journey to raise money for a much needed medical visit to identify a mystery illness that has since stripped him of his ability to speak and to walk.

The executive body of the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) has agreed to pay managers a 3 ½ % increase across the board by the end of May, and 2017 allowances by June, the Chairman of Guyana Public Service Union’s GPL branch related on Friday.

Speaker of the National Assembly, Dr Barton Scotland on Friday refused Opposition Chief Whip Gail Teixeira permission to ask Minister of State Joseph Harmon a series of questions about the Guyana People’s Militia.

The Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) on Friday announced that Dr John Smith has been elected as its Chairman.

Guyana is becoming ‘the land of opportunities’ according to the Ambassador of the Swiss Confederation to Guyana, Didier Chassot.

Fifty-seven-year-old Sumintra Bridgmohan dreams of one day owning a home and not worrying about where her next meal will come from, but it is a dream that may never be realized as the mother of eight does not have a steady job nor does she own a piece of land.

The digitizing of records at the General Register Office (GRO) is now set to be completed by 2020, according to Minister of Citizenship, Winston Felix who says that the delivery of printed birth certificates is one of the aims.

First Lady, Sandra Granger, on Friday morning, presented certificates to 48 participants from the village of Ann’s Grove, East Coast Demerara and its surrounding environs, who successfully completed the one-week course of work of the 27th Self Reliance and Success in Business Workshop.

“The time has come for us to work more closely recognizing at the end of the day that the students are the ones who will either benefit or suffer as a result of our actions and/or inactions,” says Senior Schools Welfare Officer Bernice Corbin-Zephyr.

KUALA LUMPUR,  (Reuters) – Police yesterday raided a deluxe Kuala Lumpur apartment block at which relatives of ousted Prime Minister Najib Razak had been staying as they searched for sensitive documents the new government fears may be taken out of the country, two senior police officers said.

Stressing that constitutional reform was still a major priority of the Alliance for Change (AFC) even though three years have elapsed without progress,   Chairman Khemraj Ramjattan said that he was optimistic that the process can be completed before the 2020 Regional and General Elections.

A Corentyne man who was held in connection with the recent piracy attack off Suriname, was yesterday remanded to prison, after he was charged with committing two robberies on the sea in 2015 and 2016.

The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) yesterday affirmed the acquittals of James Anthony Hyles and Mark Royden Williams, who in 2013 were found not guilty by a jury of the 2008 murders of 11 persons—including five children who were shot and killed during what has become known as the Lusignan massacre.

The motion brought by the Opposition PPP/C calling on Government to state what actions it has taken to collaborate with the Government of Suriname on Guyanese fishermen brutally attacked and some murdered by pirates in Surinamese waters on April 27th, was unanimously supported in the National Assembly last evening.

Police in St Kitts-Nevis are continuing investigations into the death of a 34-year-old Guyanese woman who was found in a house and one person has since been taken into custody.

After more than five hours of intense debate the National Assembly yesterday approved $2.5 billion in supplementary spending for the 2018 fiscal year.

Instead of freedom for Anthony Morrison—given that a jury for the third time around has been unable to arrive at a verdict in the case against him for the alleged murder of his reputed wife, the man now faces more time behind bars, owing to his attorney Maxwell McKay’s failure to inform the court that he had already faced two previous trials which ended in hung juries.