Guyana News

Fees for city parking will begin at $50 for 15 minutes and there will be special rates for public transportation, according to Director of Smart City Solutions (SCS) Ifa Cush, who is rejecting findings by government reviews that the parking meter contract with City Hall heavily favours his firm.

Almost a whopping half a billion dollars was spent by government on the D’Urban Park Development Project, which was constructed for the Jubilee celebrations.

Former president Donald Ramotar yesterday denied claims made by the supervising consultant of the Kato Secondary School, Design Construction Services Limited (DCSL), that he and his government pressured them to have the project completed before the 2015 General Elections.

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has assigned State Prosecutor Teshana Lake to lead the prosecution in the trial of former PPP/C minister Dr Jennifer Westford and her former aide Margaret Cummings for the alleged theft of over $600 million from the government.

As the suspension of scrap metal exports continues, dozens of dealers yesterday staged a picket outside of the Ministry of Business for the reopening of the trade, while claiming that an estimated 1,500 workers were affected.

Participants at the judicial colloquium on the abolition of the death penalty, which was held here last month, recommended that the government formalise the de facto moratorium of the death penalty.

Government on Thursday used its parliamentary majority to vote down an opposition motion calling for greater measures to address suicide, including decriminalisation, with its speakers arguing that the manner in which it was framed both politicised and trivialised the problem.

Four men are now in custody after a gang broke into a Seawell, East Coast Berbice home yesterday morning and proceeded to brutalise and rob a family, which has been left traumatised.

The fisherman of Parika, East Bank Essequibo, who chopped his former partner and her mother at Greenwich Park on Wednesday night and then ingested poison, succumbed yesterday morning.

More than two weeks after the body of James Stuart was found at La Grange, West Bank Demerara with a wound to the head, a sixteen-year-old boy was on Wednesday charged with his murder.

A man was yesterday set $1 million bail after he denied a charge that he stole over $9.7 million in raw gold and diesel.

The Ministry of Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs yesterday launched its list of activities for this year’s Indigenous Heritage month celebrations, under the theme ‘Our Culture, Earth’s Future – Save the Environment; Live the Indigenous Way.’

Universal Games Guyana, the newest addition to the attractions at the Giftland Mall, opened to the public on Wednesday, with the offer of one-of-a-kind virtual reality machines at affordable rates.

Fun Park Rentals will be hosting the first local ‘Playday’ event later this month to celebrate children’s play.

Murder accused Orpheus Johnson was yesterday committed to stand trial for the killing of Gladstone George, who was shot to death execution-style aboard a minibus in full view of several passengers at Agricola, East Bank Demerara last year.

A Soesdyke man was yesterday remanded to prison on a murder charge.

The businesses on the ground floor of the four-storey building at Avenue of the Republic and America Street, which was ravaged by fire on Thursday, have resumed operations, while the investigation of what caused the blaze continues.

As investigators continue to probe the murder of taxi driver Orin David, the High Court yesterday granted the police more time to detain the suspect who was arrested hours after the attack.

President David Granger is scheduled to deliver the keynote address at the Cuffy250 Committee’s 4th annual “State of the African Guyanese Forum” tomorrow at the Critchlow Labour College, in Georgetown.

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Brazil unfurled a vast canvas celebrating its rainforest and the creative energy of its wildly diverse population to the tune of samba, bossa nova and funk in welcoming the world on Friday to the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.