Guyana News

The 2011 Access to Information Act should be scrapped or at least amended to reflect a real commitment to transparency and accountability.

Guyana recently voted at the United Nations against funding for the independent investigator appointed to help protect gay and transgender people and questioned about this on Thursday, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carl Greenidge said it is not a reflection of how the country would vote in the future.

The planning of what has become known as the D’Urban Park Development Project (DPDP) began soon after the APNU+AFC coalition government took office in May 2015 and given all the questions surrounding the spending associated with the venture, Chairman of Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) Irfaan Ali says, an audit would be of interest to the group.

In order to make the former Guyana Broadcasting Corporation building on High Street safe to occupy, the Ministry of Social Protection will expend over $1 billion on repairs.

January 17 will be five years since the life of Sanjay Persaud, 40, a vendor of Bourda Market was brutally snuffed out by two gunmen and his grieving relatives are pleading for justice to be served.

The Guyana Oil Company Ltd (Guyoil) today announced an increase in prices for its products at the pumps with effect from Monday 2 January 2017.

Scenes from this morning’s new year’s fireworks put on by the Guyana Defence Force.

Nine lawyers including the present Attorney General (AG) and a sitting judge were yesterday elevated to Senior Counsel (SC) status by President David Granger, 20 years after the last batch, with the former AG claiming bias and a lack of transparency in the appointments.

It was still raining on Monday after a long weekend spell of hard showers when the World Beyond Georgetown visited South Amelia’s Ward in Linden.

The body of Surujpaul Dindyal, who died after he was struck down by a car earlier this month, will be exhumed and examined since it was mistakenly buried along with four others that were unclaimed and subjected to ‘poor burial’.

Efforts to `green’ Guyana will accelerate in the new year  focusing on economic diversification, empowerment at the community level and renewable energy, President David Granger said, even as he stressed government’s commitment to ensuring a better life for all Guyanese.

The Government Analyst Food and Drug Department (GA-FDD) has had an interesting 2016 and this year all efforts will be placed on obtaining international accreditation, building staff capacity and re-operationalizing the laboratory to ensure that the public is better served, Director Marlan Cole says.

Many of the recommendations made in the 2015 forensic audit into the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL) have been implemented but the Board has decided that the company should not be liquidated.

The highest ranked policewoman in the Guyana Police Force Maxine Graham has been promoted to Assistant Commissioner.

January Wales Estate closure announced Government announced the closure of the Wales sugar estate by way of a surprise statement issued from the Ministry of Agriculture.

In 2016 the Ministry of Public Health recorded 9,415 new cases of malaria, 842 cases of dengue fever, 35 lab confirmed cases of zika and 135 cases of chikungunya.

A meeting between the government and stakeholders in the sugar industry has resulted in the government encouraging the parliamentary opposition and sugar unions to make their own recommendations about the future of sugar in Guyana.

Despite City Hall being cash strapped and unable to help boost community development following the March 18, Local Government Elections, Constituency 14 has made progress, Deputy Mayor Sherod Duncan said, through the assistance of central government and private/public partnerships.

The young mother of 13-year-old Christopher Boucher, who is suffering from a perforating corneal laceration to his left eye, is appealing to the public for assistance to get her son the eye surgery he needs abroad.

  As we enter the New Year many—as they have done in the past—would have made resolutions they hope to keep during the year.