Guyana News

While officials from Chinese logging company Baishanlin want three more years to make good on long-awaited promises, the APNU+AFC government believes that not only the time requested is too much but that leniency and their patience have been exhausted.

Residents of Sophia can expect running water through their taps by the second half of October, GWI says.

With the closure of sugar cultivation at the Wales estate looming at yearend, GuySuCo has advertised for infrastructural work for the transport of cane to Uitvlugt on the West Coast of Demera.

A 23-year-old man of Gangaram Village, East Canje, Berbice took his own life after a dispute with his overseas-based girlfriend.

Siltation of the Mongrippa Creek in Bartica has been cited as the major cause of recent heavy flooding and work is underway to deal with the problem.

Over half a year after President David Granger promised that measures would be put in place to deal with the “evil” of alcohol abuse, a policy has still not been developed.

Minister within the Ministry of Communities, Dawn Hastings-Williams and a team conducted an education outreach to several communities in Upper Region Seven  to raise awareness about child abuse.

A post-mortem report has been tendered in the preliminary inquiry into the murder charges against Ganga Krishna and Avishkar Bissoon, who are accused of starting the fire at a Robb and King Streets building that claimed the lives of a father and his two daughters.

The preliminary inquiry into the charges against Alfie Garraway, Janiel Howard and Leroy Williams, the three men accused of throwing a grenade at Kaieteur News, continued on Thursday with more testimony from police officers who conducted the investigations.

Although Education Minister Dr Rupert Roopnaraine maintains that negotiations on wages increases are still ongoing with the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU), the ministry has already instructed that differentiated increases, ranging from 10% to 1%, be paid to teachers from next month.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has declared that he will make an assessment by November on the way forward in the longstanding border controversy between Guyana and Venezuela.

The Alliance for Change (AFC) has hailed Minister of Finance Winston Jordan for stellar works in his sector and urged that Guyanese start preparations for a nearing boom in the economy.

The police have released the 17-year-old footballer, whose mother had taken him to them after it was alleged that he was a bandit who was fleeing from the police on Tuesday afternoon when a woman was accidentally shot.

By Nigel Westmaas   But for the name “British Guiana” the title in the image above could have been written in 2016.

The Guyana Bank for Industry and Trade (GBTI) is maintaining that it only releases account information if legally compelled after one of its clients, who is a defendant in a civil case in the High Court, discovered that his bank statements were accessed without his consent or a court order.

While they continue to try to find new jobs, some former Barama workers believe that the company could have given them more notice before retrenching them.

With the country’s rum attaining international renown, raising the issue of alcohol abuse is sometimes seen as taboo, according to Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO) Representative to Guyana Dr William Adu-Krow, who says programmes are needed to promote responsible drinking as well as to steer people away from dependency.

A survey of 6,000 households across the country has found that in the 15 to 49 age group, 87% of males had consumed alcohol at some point in their lives, compared with 60% of females.

The breathtaking view of the sprawling savannah or the mesmerising Kumu or Moco Moco falls in the Kanuku mountain range in the Rupununi signals that you’re in a place with great tourism potential.

The police are currently pursuing a suspect in relation to Tuesday’s night armed robbery which occurred at the Sleep-In Guest House.