Guyana News

Skeldon Electricity Inc. (SEI), which is in charge of the GuySuCo Co-generation plant at Skeldon, is assuring Region Six residents that no major power outages are expected over the holiday season.

The Canadian High Com-mission in collaboration with the Ministry of Social Protection and the Guyana Police Force yesterday facilitated a self-defence training session in observance of the 16 days of Activism for the Elimination of Gender-Based Violence.

A Guyanese woman who was arrested at the John F Kennedy International Airport in New York last year is to be sentenced in February 2017 and faces imprisonment of between 18 and 24 months after which she will be deported.

The mayoralty of Corriverton changed hands on Friday last, when a re-election to break Thursday’s tied vote saw former Deputy Mayor Krishnand Jaichand, winning with nine votes out of 15; former Mayor Ganesh Gangadin secured the other six votes.

Mayor of Lethem Carlton Beckles and Deputy Mayor Maxine Welch were re-elected on Thursday last, when mayoral elections were held in that municipality.

A recent study by University of Guyana students, which found that the quality of life in kidney failure patients at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) was higher among those who received hemodialysis, as compared to those on peritoneal dialysis, has been questioned as doctors say inferior drugs were being used during the research period.

A smash-up between two vehicles including a Route 42 minibus yesterday morning along the Herstelling Public Road, East Bank Demerara has left one woman seriously injured and a Guyana Defence Force (GDF) corporal nursing minor injuries.

Thursday night’s Chateau Margot Public Road crash victim has been discharged from the hospital and is currently at home recuperating.

Britain’s Prince Harry today visited the world famous Kaieteur Falls.(GINA photo)  

The Office of the Leader of the Opposition today said that it is estimated that proposed changes to the VAT regime will yield a further $25b in taxes to the government.

With the 2017 budget coming under withering criticism, the government is continuing to mount a defence of it, contending today that new tax measures will pump $9.5b into the economy.

Leader of the Opposition Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday called on President David Granger to convene his Cabinet and withdraw the proposed 2017 budget or examine the concerns of society and remove some of the most oppressive measures, which he said would devastate the lives of many poor people and will cause the productive sector to regress.

Britain’s Prince Henry arrived yesterday for a three-day visit that began with a hectic schedule of events, which included laying a wreath at the Commonwealth War Graves cemetery in Kingston to pay homage to those who died in World Wars I and II.

In the early 2000s, it cost US$500,000 for 10 patients to receive cardiac treatment overseas.

Guyana has been granted a US$9 million Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) loan to help strengthen the economy and stimulate exports and investments.

More than six month after skeletal remains were unearthed at the Campbellville residence of Babita Sarjou’s estranged husband, DNA tests have confirmed that they are indeed hers.

Two men, known to the police as serial robbers, were caught early yesterday morning after they robbed the Wild Caught Fresh Fish Depot at the Meadow Bank Wharf, Ruimveldt, East Bank Demerara.

Licensed guns belonging to Siddique Rasul, owner of RSS Security Services, have undergone ballistic testing that have cleared them of any link to the fatal shooting outside the Rio Inn nightclub, according to his attorney Nigel Hughes.

Even as he called the blaming of magistrates for the overcrowding in the prison system unfair, acting Chancellor of the Judiciary Justice Carl Singh yesterday urged judicial officers to take into consideration all circumstances before making a decision on bail.

Local sculptor Winslow Craig and social activist Dr Christopher Arif Bulkan are among four people in the region who will receive the Anthony N Sabga Caribbean Awards for Excellence (ANSCAFE) in 2017 for their stellar contributions in the arts and civil society.