Guyana News

The Cumberland, East Canje Berbice, fisherman who last month pleaded guilty to the 2021 murder of overseas-based Guyanese businessman Hemraj Pardesi was last week sentenced to life in prison at the High Court in Berbice.

The recently announced disqualification of a six-year-old pupil from a Mashramani Calypso competition on the grounds that the lyrics of her calypso did not fit the guidelines for songs in her age-group, has raised the ire of many, including the Working People’s Alliance (WPA).

A benab has been donated to the National Park by Essential Care Pharmacy and Global Health Care Supplies.

Yara Martinez Diaz, a gynaecologist found herself enveloped in sheer joy as she was named the winner of the SUV in the Massy Christmas Jackpot promotion.

The police are investigating an accident which occurred at about 7.22 pm yesterday  on Quarrie Access Trail in  Central Rupununi, Region Nine, which resulted in the death of Karl Lewis, the 52-year-old Deputy Toshao of Shulinab Village, South Central Rupununi.

The Police are investigating a fatal accident which occurred at about 9:25 am today on the public road at Blankenburg, West Coast Demerara, which resulted in the death of a cop.

Prime Minister Mark Phillips yesterday turned the sod signalling the commencement of construction of the Hospitality and Tourism Training Institute (HTTI) in Port Mourant, Corentyne to the tune of US $7.2m as he said that the government is working to create 50,000 jobs within the tourism sector by 2030.

As day 10 of the teachers’ strike ended yesterday, the GTU set out minimum conditions for returning to the classrooms and it underlined that recent meetings with the Ministry of Education (MoE) had been on policy matters but not salaries and collective bargaining.

Ex-policeman Prince Reid is now awaiting sentencing after being found guilty of killing two men back in 2017 whom he drove his minibus into at Meten-Meer-Zorg, West Demerara during a fracas.

The Ptolemy Reid Rehabilitation Centre and  the Ministry of Health’s, Dis-ability and Rehabilitation Services held a closing ceremony yesterday for a four-day Prosthetic Capacity Building Workshop during which a total of 33 persons received prosthetic limbs.

The Alliance for Change (AFC) yesterday noted that no information has been publicised regarding the Government’s Urban Renewal Plan or the process employed in supposedly transferring ownership of lands on Carifesta Avenue to be utilised for the construction of a Qatari hotel.

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GTT) has announced the upgrading of its high-speed Fibre internet with no added cost.

Loud tassa sounds complemented by African drumming were heard yesterday coming from teachers on the top of the Anna Regina Habour bridge as they joined the Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) for the 10th day of strike action to bolster their demand for collective bargaining.

The Georgetown Public Hospital has purchased  a $13 million Swiss Lithoclast Master ultrasonic lithotripter.

Dear Editor, Last night I was inspired and so deeply moved by a discussion hosted by the Oil and Gas Governance Network called: The crude truth: Living on a teacher’s salary.

A team from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) yesterday met with Minister of Labour, Joseph Hamilton and other officials of his ministry.

A Plaisance man yesterday paid $250,000 to a person he was charged with wounding and the case was then dismissed at the Sparendaam Magistrate’s Court The police said that Jamel Taylor, a 32-year-old mason of Graham Street, Plaisance, East Coast Demerara (ECD), was arrested by the Police on Thursday and charged yesterday with felonious wounding.

Orvin Samsair called Nicholas, a 21-year-old from Success, East Coast Demerara, was arrested on Monday and charged on Tuesday with the rape of a child under 16 years.

Ramesh Persaud, the labourer who had been accused of the 2017 killing of Cane Grove, Mahaica farmer Harrynarine Ramnawaj, has been acquitted of the offence.

The dreams and aspirations of children are pure, and they should be nurtured.