Guyana News

The Movement Against Parking Meters (MAPM) is urging the business community to close for one hour during a planned silent protest on Wednesday at City Hall.

A pedal cyclist died  on Dennis Street, Sophia, Greater Georgetown yesterday around 5pm after he was hit by a speeding minibus.

RK’s Security Services says it will be forced to pull its guards from government locations in the interior regions from next month due to the loss it is suffering as a result of the implementation of the new statutory minimum wage for private workers.

After years of calling for lights on the Corentyne, sections of the Number 19 road from Seawell to Bohemia and Adventure to Tarlorgie Farm have been lit.

Residents of Section ‘K’ Campbellville are pleading with the authorities to fix their deplorable roads which they say have been neglected for a very long time.

Lindener Diana Chapman-Clarke’s call for the government to “Put your house in order” landed her the title of 2017 Adult Calypso Monarch Queen, dethroning fellow townsman, Lester “De Professor” Charles.

Smart City Solutions (SCS) has defended itself against those who have questioned its credibility.

Machinery Corporation of Guyana Limited (Macorp) has reiterated its commitment to enhancing the abilities of Guyana’s human resources with the launch of a new learning centre at its Providence, East Bank Demerara location.

Digicel Guyana, usually one of the largest contingents in the Mashramani float parade, has decided to opt out of participating in this year’s festivities in order to focus its efforts on executing community and family events, as it celebrates its 10th year here.

The lawyer for New York-based Guyanese businessman Ed Ahmad is seeking the deferral of his sentencing on fraud conspiracy until after April 16.

(Reuters) – The Department of Homeland Security has prepared new guidance for immigration agents aimed at speeding up deportations by denying asylum claims earlier in the process.

– urge continuation of boycott Lawyers working with the Movement Against Parking Meters (MAPM) have assured the public that the contract between City Hall and Smart City Solutions (SCS), which is at its core immoral, can easily be revoked.

  Golden Fleece on the Essequibo Coast is situated 13 miles north of Supenaam and is home to approximately 700 persons.

The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers’ Union (GAWU) has urged government to consider modernizing GuySuCo to diversify the output from cane harvesting and cut costs, while continuing to object to the closure of any more estates.

The police in Trinidad and Tobago are investigating the murder of a Guyanese man, who was yesterday morning discovered stabbed to death in his Henderson Street, Chaguanas apartment.

The Private Sector Commission (PSC) last evening called the government’s dismissal of the business community’s lack of confidence in its management of the economy disappointing, while noting that it failed to address any of the concerns raised about the perception of a decline.

Despite a court order, Guyana Power and Light Inc (GPL) may never be able to recover the more than $184 million owed by Bill Direct (Guyana) Incorporated for customer payments, according to a 2016 audit, which has found that it was the gross negligence and complicity by GPL’s management and executive officers that has resulted in the loss.

The father of one of the boys allegedly raped by Muslim scholar Nezaam Ali says that he wants the disappearance of key documents investigated quickly and the matter taken to the High Court so that justice can be served.

The fire on Wednesday evening that destroyed two Princes Street dwellings was caused after a generator exhaust overheated and caused a mattress to combust, a source has confirmed.

Christopher Boucher, the 13-year-old who sustained injuries to his left eye last October after being pelted with a brick, received the unfortunate news last week that he will never regain sight in the damaged eye.