Guyana News

President David Granger has extended to the family and friends of President of the Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA) and Managing Director of Safeway Security, Eon Caesar, who died on Friday evening in a hospital in Trinidad and Tobago.

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Leeward Islands Hurricanes, replying to Windward Islands Volcanoes’ 291, reached 209 for six in their first innings at the close on the second day of their fourth round game in the Regional Four-Day Championship at Windsor Park yesterday.

Despite speech and hearing impediments, Nadeza Rodrigues does not let the challenges of being differently-abled prevent her from enhancing her vocational skills through the Hinterland Employment and Youth Service (HEYS).

Water samples taken to be tested for cyanide and heavy metals in the wake of the mysterious deaths of two young Kako brothers have returned negative, but retesting is to be done after concerns were raised about the handling of the samples.

The developer of the seven-storey building at the junction of Camp and Robb streets is aiming to complete construction early next year.

The coalition government’s talk about putting youth first has proved to be nothing but lip service, according to opposition Member of Parliament (MP) Pauline Sukhai.

An overseas-based Guyanese pensioner was beaten and robbed in his home at Salton Village, Corentyne, around 12.45 am yesterday.

The Board of Directors of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) has approved a country strategy for Guyana for the period 2017 to 2021 for US$194m which includes US$65m from the UK in a previously approved programme.

Changes proposed for the Value-Added Tax (VAT) system are necessary to strengthen a revenue source which had been weakened by the excessive granting of tax exemptions, waivers and concessions under the former People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) government, Minister of Finance Winston Jordan said yesterday.

Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday laced into government’s proposed 2017 budget, charging that it shows no vision for investments and job creation and places an enormous tax burden on Guyana’s citizenry.

Having inherited a sugar industry shackled on a “death bed” by $85 billion in debt, a bailout became necessary to keep sugar workers employed despite the strain on other sectors and the treasury, Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo said yesterday, as he rubbished claims by the opposition PPP/C that government was ‘killing sugar.’

Public servants have been granted a $25,000 Christmas bonus by the government, Minister of Finance Winston Jordan announced yesterday, while declaring that it will help “ease the journey to the good life.”

In an unprecedented move, the private sector and the two trade union umbrella bodies have appealed to the government and parliamentary opposition for urgent dialogue on areas of concern in the proposed 2017 national budget.

The Justice and Peace Commission (JPC) of the Roman Catholic Church has called on President David Granger and Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo to engage and agree on a programme of healing to counter the brokenness in Guyana.

President of the Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA) Eon Caesar has died.

Darshan Babulall, the driver of the vehicle that struck and killed 11-year-old Simon Kendall at Number 46 Village, Corentyne on Thursday afternoon, was yesterday charged with causing his death and remanded to prison.

As the search continues for missing Prospect resident Shawnette Savory, investigators yesterday began excavating a Belle West, Canal Number Two property for her body but with no results.

Exactly two years after gunmen stormed the Sterling Products Limited compound at Providence, East Bank Demerara and shot and killed security guard Wilfred Stewart, a fourth suspect was arrested in connection with the crime.

Speaker Barton Scotland’s expected pronouncement on the drug bond controversy that erupted on Thursday night in the National Assembly was deferred yesterday after opposition members failed to return to the parliamentary chambers.

Declaring that the security sector is “worse off,” PPP/C MP Clement Rohee yesterday called on Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan to say whether he is losing the war on crime.