Guyana News

Minister of Health, Dr Frank Anthony yesterday inaugurated a state-of-the-art $49 million digital X-ray Machine at Mahaicony Cottage Hospital in Region Five.

Sasenarine Singh, the CEO of GuySuCo yesterday on his Facebook page pledged to ensure that the control room at the Albion Sugar Estate which was damaged by a fire on Saturday morning is fixed promptly.

Acting Chief Justice Roxane George SC, has thrown out the case which had been filed challenging the powers of the President to extend the tenure of acting Commissioner of Police, Clifton Hicken, beyond the age of retirement.

Forty-eight-year-old Venezuelan Alcides Jose Martinez Mejia who appeared before Magistrate Rhondel Weever at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on Monday to answer to the charge of illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition was sentenced to two years imprisonment but will serve one year as the sentences will run concurrently.

A Number 56 Village, Corentyne man was yesterday found dead in a trench at Bushlot Village, Corentyne.

Scotiabank, in a press release said it has donated $3,875,000 towards a youth-focused skills training programme, Construction Technology and Disaster Risk Reduction Training, facilitated by Habitat for Humanity for persons ages 16-30 years.

The Ministry of Labour says it is currently investigating a fatal accident which occurred at approximately 7.38 this morning, at the John Fernandes Limited Port Facility on Water Street, Georgetown.

The Ministry of Labour’s Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Department received a report on Sunday 4th February, 2024, of a workplace fatality which occurred at Guyana Shield Resources Incorporated, Dora, East Bank Demerara.

The opposition APNU+AFC today declared solidarity with striking teachers. A statement from the Office of the Leader of the Opposition follows: “The Opposition Coalition stands firmly with the teachers of Guyana during this crucial time, as they intensify their efforts to get the government to meet their legitimate demands.

The Guyana Government today wrote the GTU stating that it will no longer act as an agent for it and deduct dues from the wages and salaries of teachers and remit same to the union.

By Shuntel Glasgow and Abigail Headley Hundreds of teachers from all across the country went on strike yesterday as their union threw down the gauntlet to the government over its failure to engage in free collective bargaining since August 2020.

Over 180 residents of Cotton Tree, West Coast Berbice yesterday received Certificates of Title, granting legal ownership of lands they have occupied for decades, the Department of Public Information (DPI) reported.

Berbice teachers yesterday took to the streets throughout the region in support of the GTU strike calling for the Ministry of Education to head back to the bargaining table with the union to work out an option for increased salaries for educators.

By Antonio Dey While Chairperson of the Guyana Public Service Co-operative Credit Union Limited (GPSCCUL) Karen Vanslutyman-Corbin maintains that a court-ordered Special General Meeting (SGM) was convened yesterday at the Critchlow Labour College, Trevor Benn, a member of the committee of management said that this was “disingenuous”.

La Parfaite Harmonie disc jockey (DJ) Roger Gibbons who prosecutors say pretended to be the well-known DJ Ace—and who allegedly lied to a young woman about being able to offer her a modelling job before raping her—has been found not guilty.

In recent weeks no work has been done on the Liliendaal pump station which has a completion date of April this year.

Former machine operator, Deonarine Seetaram of Cornelia Ida, West Coast Demerara (WCD), has been sentenced to eight years behind bars for the 2019 killing of re-migrant, Mohammed Shameem Hassan.

Opposition Chief Whip Christopher Jones has raised concerns over meetings not being held by the parliamentary sectoral committees.

Yuri Nicholas has been sentenced to eight years in prison for the May 3rd, 2019 unlawful killing of Elton Leonard at Karasabai Village, Rupununi, Region 9.

Hundreds of teachers gathered in front of the Department of Education, Anna Regina, yesterday morning to take part  in the Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) countrywide strike.