Guyana News

With the AFC set to hold its National Executive Conference (NEC) later this month, party leader Khemraj Ramjattan yesterday stated that he will run for the position again amid signs that some of its members want those holding key positions in the coalition government to come off the party’s executive.

A fire last night devastated a Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara apartment complex, which had provided housing to scores of students of nearby tertiary institutions.

Police officers and prisoners travelling from Essequibo to Georgetown sustained injuries yesterday when the bus they were in crashed into the garage gate at Tiwari’s Drug Store at Uitvlugt, West Coast Demerara, while avoiding a collision with a truck.

Shawn Thompson and Daniel Grant, the two Corentyne men who are accused of robbing the Good Life Supermarket on Tuesday evening, were yesterday remanded to prison after facing charges for the robbery and other crimes.

The Alliance for Change (AFC) stands by President David Granger’s rejection of the six nominees submitted by Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo for the position of Chairperson of the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) and party leader Khemraj Ramjattan says the Head of State doesn’t have to give a reason.

The Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD) is convinced that Guyana sold its vote on the United Nations resolution on funding for a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) rights envoy to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC).

The Trinidadian manager of Club Privilege was yesterday fined $15,000 after he was hauled before a city court for overstaying in Guyana.

Caesar Gonsalves, the man who police arrested after the discovery of a high-powered rifle in an apartment complex at Turn Drive, East La Penitence, South Georgetown on Thursday, was yesterday charged and remanded to prison.

A Guyana Police Force Special Constable remains under close arrest as investigations continue into the robbery of the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) office at Pouderoyen, West Bank Demerara on Thursday.

A man was on Thursday evening taken into police custody after he allegedly set his Strathspey, East Coast Demerara house on fire, forcing his wife and children to find new lodgings.

Nine persons, including three women, have been arrested after police found a quantity of ammunition and ecstasy pills during a search of an apartment building at Rasville, Georgetown, yesterday morning.

Despite being allocated $5.8B in 2016, the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) was only able to spend 12% of the money, a report from the agency says.

The Ministry of Communities spent 2016 focused on rebuilding the system of regional and local administration to ensure community participation in governance, according to the ministry’s end-of-year report, which explains that the move was aimed at advancing efficiency and effectiveness by empowering local democratic organs and preparing them for aspects of decentralised government services.

While the Guyana Livestock Development Authority (GLDA) claims that there were no cases of animal death as a result of the recent flooded savannah in Cane Grove, East Coast Demerara, the cattle farmers remain adamant that there were losses.

New Public Health Minister Volda Lawrence on Wednesday visited the ministry’s Material Management Unit (MMU) and its Central Supply Unit (CSU) to get a scope of their functions and she has identified areas that need improvement.

In an effort to foster an entrepreneurial spirit in the minds of young pupils, the Enterprise Youth Development Group recently hosted a session on entrepreneurship and the use of social media for students of the Enterprise Primary School and Enterprise Community High School.

The management of the Demerara Harbour Bridge Corporation (DHBC) is apologising to commuters for the extended opening of the bridge yesterday, GINA said, attributing this to work that was needed to prevent a section of the structure from  collapsing.

Work will begin in the first quarter of this year to install Public Internet Access Points (PIAPs) at public buildings, GINA said today.

Police during a search, early this morning of several apartments in Rasville, Georgetown, detained nine persons inclusive of three females, after they found sixteen live rounds of different calibres of ammunition and one hundred and eighty ecstasy pills.

Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday said he would propose to President David Granger that they jointly approach the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) to interpret the constitutional requirements for the appointment of a Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) chairperson.