Guyana News

Leader of the Opposition,  Bharrat Jagdeo has begun a series of consultations with civil society groups over the next Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission.

The cost for Demerara Bank Limited’s solar system is $57.3M instead of the $23M that was initially reported on Saturday.

Aggressive behaviour, physical abuse and lack of parental supervision are among the factors which lead youth to crime and violence, Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan said yesterday while calling for the creation of evidence-based initiatives to effectively deal with this problem.

The Guyana Police Force yesterday officially opened the doors to the Seelall Persaud Fitness Centre with the objective of improving the health and well-being of its members.

Sixty young people from across the Commonwealth, including Samantha Sheoprashad from Guyana, have been selected to receive a prestigious Queen’s Young Leaders Award.

The Guyana Agricultural & General Workers’ Union (GAWU) is disappointed that the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) would not be paying the Annual Production Incentive (API) to workers’ this year.

A Sheet Anchor teenager was carjacked on Tuesday around 8 pm in the vicinity of Angoy’s Avenue and police in ‘B’ Division are currently searching for the car, PTT 6559, a new-model, button-start, white Fielder wagon.

A 33-year-old man who operates a Chinese restaurant and bar at Main and Chapel streets, New Amsterdam, was arrested yesterday after he allegedly beat a dog-food vendor with a piece of wood.

Two men were brought before a city magistrate yesterday and remanded to prison after being read separate narcotics charges.

The Hugh Desmond Hoyte Family Recreational Park in Rose Hall, Berbice was officially opened on Saturday.

A 57-year-old man was remanded to prison yesterday after being read a charge of inflicting bodily harm on another individual.

The government will continue to offer concessions to gold and diamond miners and intends to work closely with all the stakeholders, while ensuring adherence to declaration, tax, and environmental obligations.

See a detailed review of the 2017 budget by accounting firm Ram and McRae in tomorrow’s edition of Stabroek News.

Investigations are currently underway into an incident at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri, where the tail section of a parked Fly Jamaica plane was knocked off by a Caribbean Airlines (CAL) craft as it was pulling into the apron yesterday morning.

A Number 60 Village, Corentyne man was chopped to death after a dispute with another man at his home on Monday night.

A Diamond man is now dead after an early morning accident along the Soesdyke Public Road that also left his car split in two.

During the presentation of the 2017 Budget on Monday, Minister of Finance Winston Jordan revealed that of the 14,386 students who wrote the 2016 National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) only 14% or 2,014 students were able to achieve a passing grade in Mathematics and less than 50% achieved passes in English.

Three days after he was struck down on a pedestrian crossing in front of the Wellington Park Primary School, a seven-year-old boy succumbed to his injuries on Monday evening.

The Central Corentyne Chamber of Commerce (CCCC) yesterday called on the Government of Guyana to withdraw the proposed Value Added Tax (VAT) on the consumption of electricity and water.

The radical re-organisation of the sugar industry is a matter of urgency, Finance Minister Winston Jordan said on Monday, even as he stressed that the economy continued to feel the “drag of dismal output” by the sector.