Guyana News

Former Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon believes that the government’s decision to hold its weekly Cabinet meetings at the Guyana Defence Force’s Camp Ayanganna base shows a politicising of the military.

A recent fundraising trip to New York by a University of Guyana (UG) delegation secured $2,019,950 in contributions against $4,366,024 in expenditure on airfare and accommodation.

The Vector Control Unit (VCU) of the Ministry of Public Health is working towards the establishment of an Entomology Unit as a means of enhancing its monitoring and management of mosquito borne-diseases.

A total of six babies, including a stillbirth case, have been diagnosed with microcephaly since the first local case of Zika was detected earlier this year.

By Zoisa Fraser in Ohio*   Women are just as capable as men to be president, Beyoncé told those packed into the Wolstein Center in Cleveland, Ohio on Friday night for a free concert organised by her husband, music mogul and rapper Jay Z in support of US presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton.

After a vehement refusal of the government’s wages and salaries offer and a request for negotiations to be taken to conciliation, no date has been set and the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) is silent.

Government on Thursday announced plans for the overhaul of the civil aviation sector, including the approval for the establishment of a review panel to resolve the long-running disagreements between domestic carriers at the Eugene F Correia International Airport.

President David Granger has said that current youth training programmes will be enlarged as government moves to increase the pool of young entrepreneurs.

BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Venezuela is going through a “very ugly” situation and there could be bloodshed ahead if talks between the government and opposition fail, a papal envoy told an Argentine newspaper after his visit to Venezuela this week.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC – West Indies Test captain Jason Holder says he is determined to avoid controversial off-the-field issues and focus on his main job of leading the Caribbean side.

Parking meters are scheduled to become operational around the capital city by mid-December, according to Managing Director of Business Development of contractor Smart City Solutions (SCS) Amir Oren.

The Gaming Authority has rejected the application for a casino licence made by owner of the Sleepin Hotel Chains Clifton Bacchus.

Guyana’s total public debt at the end of December 2015 was $317.7b and the APNU+AFC government will in 2017 be working to modernize the consolidated Debt Management Act as part of efforts to improve the capacity to manage debt.

Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Shalimar Ali-Hack yesterday rejected a statement attributed to Attorney General Basil Williams that state prosecutors shun “highly political” cases.

A Newtown, Kitty restaurateur was badly beaten and robbed of an undisclosed amount of cash on Thursday night during an attack by armed bandits and neighbours said calls made to the 911 service to get help went unanswered.

City Hall is seeking help from central government to pay off the over $300 million it owes to garbage collection contractors, which have threatened to suspend their services unless they are paid, according to Town Clerk Royston King.

Acting Chief Executive Officer of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) Dr Sheik Amir and Director of the Emergency Department Dr Zulfikar Bux yesterday appealed to patients to utilize local health centres and clinics for non-emergencies.

Eleven Demerara Timbers Limited (DTL) workers, who were dismissed for protesting in front of the company’s head office on October 3, yesterday took their grievance to the Ministry of the Presidency.

The People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) yesterday held the first in a planned series of meetings with ministers of government for members of the public at its Congress Place, Sophia, headquarters, where a number of people turned up to meet the Public Health Ministers to discuss myriad issues.

The government has committed to making a decision about the future of the sugar industry before the end of December as pressure mounts on it to take steps to preserve jobs on estates while at the same time reducing subventions to the heavily indebted and loss-making GuySuCo.