Guyana News

The New Guyana Pharma-ceutical Corporation (New GPC) has denied failing to deliver on a $1 billion contract for the supply of drugs to the Ministry of Public Health in 2015.

At 21, Rosemarie Ramitt has already fought many battles and while she has tasted the sweetness of victory time and again, her struggles continue, not just for herself, but for many others in the same situation.

The University of Guyana (UG) and Ian Randle Publishers (IRP) of Jamaica have signed an agreement to establish a publishing arm of the university that will publish the scholarly work of faculty and student researchers.

The United States Transporta-tion Security Administration (US-TSA) on Friday donated two state-of-the-art portable Explosive Trace Detection machines, which can detect a range of substances involved in the creation of explosive materials and devices, to the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA), through the Ministry of Public Infrastructure.

A new company, Ramdihal and Haynes Chartered Accounting and Profes-sional Services Firm, has entered the local market with the aim of providing world-class services in anticipation of the country’s expected economic growth.

Two bandits pulled off a daring daylight robbery yesterday morning, invading a supermarket in Meten-Meer-Zorg, West Coast Demerara where they attacked the owner and escaped with an undisclosed amount of cash.

Staff of the Mercy Wings Vocational School in Sophia are pleading with the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) to address a leaning telephone pole in front of their building.

The Movement Against Parking Meters has expressed outrage that clamping of motor vehicles is still continuing despite an order yesterday by the Minister of Communities, Ronald Bulkan suspending the bylaws that were created for the project.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC — West Indies selectors today named a 16-man squad to face Pakistan in the upcoming four-match Twenty20 series in Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago.

Minister of Communities Ronald Bulkan yesterday ordered the suspension of the by-laws for the city’s controversial metered parking system for 90 days as government effectively took the decision out of the hands of the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) on bringing the project to a halt.

Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Shalimar Ali-Hack has directed the reopening of the preliminary inquiry into the charge against Regan Rodrigues for the murder of political activist Courtney Crum-Ewing.

More than a year after it announced the end of sugar at Wales, the government yesterday sent its first high-level team to the West Bank Demerara community and heard demands for severance pay from former estate workers at a stormy meeting.

With questions mounting over the legality of recent drug purchases for the Georgetown hospital and the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) calling for a full investigation, Minister of Public Health Volda Lawrence is expected to issue a second explanation to clarify the matter as the government faces a major controversy over the violation of procurement rules.

Cabinet has greenlit a US$1 million contract for the construction of overhead pedestrian crossings at three locations along the East Bank Demerara Highway.

Suspended Chairman of the Public Service Commission (PSC) Carvil Duncan says that the removal of free security, telephone and electricity benefits, which he had been entitled to since taking office in 2014, is politically-motivated and he plans to approach the High Court to have them restored.

A businessman and farmer of Moruca, North West District was brutally chopped to death yesterday morning while on his way to his farm, and the suspect, said to be of unsound mind, has been taken into custody.

Winston Haynes, one of three former soldiers accused of raping a young woman at Camp Stephenson, Timehri, was yesterday charged with the crime and he was granted his release on $600,000 bail.

Justice Brassington Reynolds last week issued a provisional order for Attorney General Basil Williams SC to appoint the members of the Governing Board for the Deeds and Commercial Registries Authority.

Government may be one step closer to accessing the US$80 million currently being held by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) from the forest protection deal with Norway, for alternative green energy projects.

More than 30 Movement Against Parking Meters (MAPM) supporters parked their vehicles in the vicinity of Muneshwers on Water Street for an hour yesterday, while daring staff of the parking meter company to take action against them.