Guyana News

Minister of Public Works Juan Edghill on Friday announced that developmental works for the four-lane bridge across the Demerara River in Wismar, Linden, Region Ten, are slated to begin this year.

A 31-year-old vendor, Quason Leacock, of D’Urban Backlands Squatting Area, Georgetown, is now hospitalized nursing a gunshot and chop wound.

For 2023, a total of 1520 inmates across Guyana completed training in various technical and vocational skills, which aligns with the Guyana Prison Service’s (GPS’s) goal of facilitating smooth integration into society.

Oswald and Coretta Whyte were the top prize winners in the Assuria Christmas promotion.

Residents of the Lower Pomeroon River, Region Two, recently received solar panel kits comprising of a battery solar panel, a fan, and two light fixtures. 

Interviews and photos by Subhana  Shiwmangal Stabroek News spoke to members of the public in the area of Melanie on the East Coast of Demerara about the rising cost of living and how it is affecting them.

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) has urged an embracing of the possibilities that lie ahead.

The Alliance For Change [AFC] in extending New Year’s greetings says that it aspires to forging the unity of all the nation’s peoples and that together a Guyana is built where truth, justice and respect for each other and the environment guide its every action.

Police ranks carried out a search in the Orealla Station district, Region Six on Saturday for prohibited fireworks where about eleven shops were searched and a quantity of fireworks confiscated.

A 25-year-old Parika Market vendor, Parbattie Amanda Persaud was this morning beaten to death, allegedly by her abusive husband, with a piece of wood while she was heading to the market.

At about 10:15 am yesterday, the police say that ranks were on Anti-Crime Patrol duty in a police vehicle on Freeman Street, East La Penitence, Georgetown when they observed a man who later gave his name as John Moore, a 23-year-old unemployed resident of East La Penitence (and an ex-police constable), holding an AR rifle in his right hand and a haversack on his back.

Amid a contention by analyst Christopher Ram that the Natural Resource Fund (NRF) is overstated by a whopping $274b because it includes oil company taxes that should be remitted to the GRA, Attorney General Anil Nandlall SC yesterday argued that Section 45 of the governing Act has a “supremacy provision”  which overrides the taxing statute.

Chief of Staff of the Guyana Defence Force, Brigadier Omar Khan and the British High Commissioner to Guyana, Jane Miller were among those who on Friday visited the UK warship HMS Trent which is moored offshore.

A 34-year-old farmer of Upper Bonasika Creek, Essequibo River, and also of Hyde Park, Parika, East Bank Essequibo, died at the West Demerara Regional Hospital (WDRH) last Thursday after stabbing his ex-wife and then ingesting a poisonous substance.

By Antonio Dey Minister of Agriculture, Zulfikar Mustapha, yesterday said that the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) has provided the Public Procurement Commission (PPC) with the relevant documents and tender proceedings concerning the probe into the disputed Tepui contract award.

More than a month after applications for magistrates and judges were received by the Judicial Service Commission (JSC), the screening process continues and is being conducted on a points system before interviews, sources say.

Minister of Housing and Water, Collin Croal during a recent visit to Region Six said that over 29,000 house lots have been allocated countrywide as the government is continuing on the journey to 50,000 – its five-year target.

The Parliamentary Opposition has stated its commitment to work with the International Decade for People of African Descent Assembly-Guyana (IDPADA-G) for the betterment of all Guyanese.

Krishnanand Ramlachana, the appointed investigator into the helicopter crash which claimed the lives of five military personnel and injured two others on December 6, has taken the aircraft’s  ‘black box’ to the United States for analysis, as part of the probe into the incident, according to Public Works Minister Juan Edghill.

Minister of Agriculture Zulfikar Mustapha yesterday assured that Guyana is on target in relation to the 25 per cent reduction of the regional food import bill by 2025, since the country is producing all of its livestock feed.