Guyana News

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC — Darren Sammy has been sacked as West Indies Twenty20 captain, four months after leading the region to unprecedented second T20 World Cup triumph.

The problems associated with the shifting Hope Canal Bridge located at Hope on the East Coast of Demerara are due to poor design and not the failure of the contractor, Minister of Agriculture, Noel Holder says.

“Leadership is about the daily application of critical thinking, decision-making and problem solving.

Saying that any move to bar University of Guyana (UG) student loan defaulters from leaving the country would be illegal, President David Granger yesterday emphasised the need for more persuasive measures to be used to ensure repayments.

A damning report of a technical audit outlining numerous defects uncovered at the Kato Secondary School was yesterday presented to the National Assembly even as the firm responsible for the works defended its performance, while accusing the government of making the issue political and not requesting corrections as provided for in the contract.

A jury yesterday found a young West Berbice cane harvester guilty of killing his former partner.

A fisherman seriously wounded his former partner and her mother with a knife and cutlass around 10:40 pm on Wednesday at Greenwich Park, East Bank Essequibo before consuming a poisonous substance.

Ishwar Heeralall, 38, the man who allegedly chopped his estranged wife at the La Penitence Market, was yesterday charged with the crime and had his bail set at $600,000.

Photos by Orlando Charles   A fire ripped through a section of a four-storey building at the corner of Avenue of the Republic and America Street yesterday morning, disrupting several small businesses and causing the destruction of tens of millions of dollars in goods.

Government is seeking parliamentary approval for over $2 billion in extra-budgetary spending including $501 million for BK International as part payment for an out-of-court $1.1 billion settlement, and $109.6 million in extra funding for the University of Guyana which the institution had been seeking.

Cabinet has given its no-objection to expenditure of $168.3m for facilitators under the Hinterland Employment Youth Service (HEYS).

Mark Sauers and Rolston Bacchus, who are accused of recruiting drug mules, were freed of the charges against them yesterday after the prosecution’s star witness in their trial recanted his testimony and claimed that he had struck a deal with the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) to lie on the witness stand in exchange for a reduced sentence.

The Region Six Regional Democratic Council (RDC) yesterday made a decision to take on full responsibility for the Amerindian Hostel located in Stanleytown, New Amsterdam, following reports of substandard conditions at the facility.

A man who was wanted by police was yesterday shot by ranks of the force during an attempt to apprehend him.

Matthew Stephen Lutchana, 19, an overseas-based Guyanese who fatally hit a pedestrian along the Number 51 Village Public Road on Monday, was yesterday charged with failure to render assistance and failure to stop at the scene of an accident.

The Ministry of Social Protection approached the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) to disaggregate the information of all persons who are 65 and over from the national voter’s list in order to ensure that all pensioners are in receipt of their old age pension, according to Minister of Social Protection Volda Lawrence.

GTT, effective on Tuesday, made free data available to all its prepaid and postpaid smartphone customers.

Cabinet has given its nod of approval for the establishment of a National Border Institute, Minister of State Joseph Harmon said yesterday.

The Ministry of Agriculture is intensifying efforts to increase land rates and to recoup billions of dollars outstanding for land rates and irrigation fees owed to the Mahaica, Mahaicony, Abary- Agriculture Development Authority (MMA-ADA).

Officials at the Guyana Live-stock Development Authority (GLDA)  on Wednesday evening impounded several dogs which entered Guyana illegally, breaching quarantine regulations.