Guyana News

  Golden Fleece on the Essequibo Coast is situated 13 miles north of Supenaam and is home to approximately 700 persons.

The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers’ Union (GAWU) has urged government to consider modernizing GuySuCo to diversify the output from cane harvesting and cut costs, while continuing to object to the closure of any more estates.

The police in Trinidad and Tobago are investigating the murder of a Guyanese man, who was yesterday morning discovered stabbed to death in his Henderson Street, Chaguanas apartment.

The Private Sector Commission (PSC) last evening called the government’s dismissal of the business community’s lack of confidence in its management of the economy disappointing, while noting that it failed to address any of the concerns raised about the perception of a decline.

Despite a court order, Guyana Power and Light Inc (GPL) may never be able to recover the more than $184 million owed by Bill Direct (Guyana) Incorporated for customer payments, according to a 2016 audit, which has found that it was the gross negligence and complicity by GPL’s management and executive officers that has resulted in the loss.

The father of one of the boys allegedly raped by Muslim scholar Nezaam Ali says that he wants the disappearance of key documents investigated quickly and the matter taken to the High Court so that justice can be served.

The fire on Wednesday evening that destroyed two Princes Street dwellings was caused after a generator exhaust overheated and caused a mattress to combust, a source has confirmed.

Christopher Boucher, the 13-year-old who sustained injuries to his left eye last October after being pelted with a brick, received the unfortunate news last week that he will never regain sight in the damaged eye.

The decomposed body of an unidentified man was yesterday afternoon discovered in the empty lot, which once housed the Guyana Sports Club, opposite the National Park, Thomas Lands.

The PPP today called on the city to show respect to the High Court’s order on the parking meters contract on Thursday and to put the project on hold.

The Private Sector Commission today said that it was disappointed at the government’s response to its concerns and noted that none of the key issues raised were addressed.

The Alliance for Change today said that Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo has no moral authority to grade the government and charged that his administration had left the country in a literal and figurative mess.

Caricom Heads who met in Georgetown on Thursday and yesterday expressed support for the latest UN plan on Guyana’s border controversy with Venezuela and voiced the hope that final settlement will release the entire Caribbean of its “unwanted implications”.

Racked by weeks of boycotts, protests and court action aimed at scuttling it, the Georgetown Metered Parking Project will resume on Monday with an easing of enforcement measures and lower, tiered rates to be implemented once amended bylaws are approved and gazetted.

Several private schools have written to government over the recently implemented 14% VAT on private education, according to Minister of State Joseph Harmon, who said yesterday that the issue is now engaging the attention of Cabinet.

The Mayor and City Council (M&CC) have declined an invitation to today’s Town Hall-style meeting on the metered parking system, organised by the Movement Against Parking Meters (MAPM), while referring to it as a “setting for propaganda and abuse.”

In a surprising twist, the woman fingered as the mastermind behind last week Tuesday’s execution of the Tain mother of four Leilawatie Mohamed turned herself over to the police in Berbice yesterday.

The Mayor and City Council (M&CC) has registered more than 300 vendors to date, in its ongoing registration drive.

With his contract coming to an end in March, the People’s Progressive Party/ Civic (PPP/C)- nominated commissioners on the Guyana Elections Com-mission (Gecom) yesterday said that they lack confidence in the Chief Election Officer Keith Lowenfield.

By July, the Caricom-wide arrest warrant treaty could be ready for signature but the implementation of decisions continues to be delayed by poor consultative mechanisms at the national and regional level.