Guyana News

President David Granger on Thursday said he was assured by the performance of troops during the week-long field tactical exercise ‘Homeguard’ that the Guyana Defence Force remains ready to fulfil its mission.

Public Health Minister Dr George Norton last week turned the sod for the construction of a new health post at Kurutuku, in Region Seven.

As of September 22nd, the court of Magistrate Judy Latchman will be temporarily relocated to the Arthur Chung Convention Centre, to accommodate the receipt of video evidence in a gold smuggling case.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida,  CMC -Newly appointed captain Carlos Brathwaite leads a powerful West Indies team against India in two T20 Internationals in South Florida this weekend.

(Ministry of Public Telecommunications) A team led by Public Telecommunications Minister, Cathy Hughes, is on the way to China for talks with the principals of Huawei Technologies Co.

Embattled Minister of Public Health Dr. George Norton this morning pleaded with the public to give him another chance to “do better” as he apologised for giving false information to the National Assembly on the controversial Charlestown pharmaceutical bond and promised that he would conduct more “due diligence” in the future.

-Jagdeo says deal must be cancelled   Public Health Minister Dr George Norton has presented Parliament with the contract for the controversial Charlestown drug bond but without signatures and Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo last evening said nothing short of a revocation of the deal would suffice.

Terani Goolsarran, the man who is accused of killing 14-year-old Akeem Grimmond, was yesterday charged with the crime and remanded to prison.

The police on the Essequibo Coast are conducting investigations into the death of a Better Success rice farmer, who was reportedly killed by his sister in an act of self defence.

A welder is now dead after a gas tank he was welding next to exploded.

Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo has denied a statement in a USAID report that the APNU+AFC coalition government had proposed a unity government that was rejected by the People’s Progressive Party (PPP).

After the discovery of the body of fisherman Levan Chanderpaul, who was beaten and chopped, a suspect, who had previously threatened him, is among the persons who have been detained by police.

Although she found her 19-year-old son hanging in her house, a woman is not convinced that he killed himself and she wants answers from the police.

The family of Jerome Singh who was fatally struck down on the Bagotstown, East Bank Demerara public road say they are still awaiting for justice to be served.

While the Mayor and City Council has made no apparent effort to implement central government’s recommendations in relation to the contentious parking meter contract, its partner, Smart City Solutions (SCS) has begun recruiting staff.

Workers of the Russian-owned Bauxite Company of Guyana Incorporated (BCGI) will now have tax exemptions on their overtime, according to Minister of Social Protection Volda Lawrence.

Minister of Social Protection Volda Lawrence has urged Indigenous leaders to be more proactive in tackling the social ills that affect their communities and specifically Trafficking in Persons (TIP) and sexual abuse.

Officials of the RUSAL-run Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc. (BCGI) were yesterday accused of hiring employees on a contractual basis in order to deny the country of funds usually paid under the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) and Pay As You Earn (PAYE) schemes.

The Ministry of Public Infrastructure (MPI) is moving to have all its documents on contracts and other business stored in one place and it advertised on Wednesday for bidders to construct a $104M centre.

The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) has said that it finds “absurd” that the government’s proposed differentiated wage increases is its “final offer” as allowances and de-bunching are still unaddressed.