Guyana News

Lawyers for the Shipping Association of Guyana (SAG) yesterday filed a motion in court to challenge the city’s move to charge $25,000 per container parked in Georgetown and for the traversing of vehicles carrying containers.

Puran Brothers Disposal Inc yesterday defended its credentials and rubbished claims of bias in the award of a $221M contract for management of the Haags Bosch landfill which has since seen  a Cevons Waste Disposal-led consortium filing a historic protest.

Finance Minister Winston Jordan has upped the ante for differentiated wage increases for public servants as opposed to the customary across-the-board hike.

Government will implement a land classification system to revise and update rental values for land, Minister of State Joseph Harmon has said.

The health service in Berbice is only administering yellow fever vaccines to pregnant women, newborn babies and persons who plan on travelling to Suriname, Trinidad, South America and South Africa, within seven to ten days.

National footballer Rensford Coleridge remains in hospital in a critical condition after he was stabbed several times about his body, allegedly by his neighbour, on Tuesday evening.

On July 16 and 17, Minister of Communities Ronald Bulkan and Minister within the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples Affairs Valerie Garrido-Lowe visited the villages of Pai Pang, Tiger Pond and Karasabai in Region 9.

Two men are currently in custody in relation to the death of James Stuart, whose body was found on Sunday morning at La Grange, West Bank Demerara with a wound to his head.

The number of Guyanese over 40 years of age has increased from 2002 to 2012 and now comprise 29.1 percent of the population or 217,498 persons, according to the last census done in 2012.

Participants at  the recently concluded European Union (EU)and Cariforum capacity building public procurement training seminar say that government ministries need to be more involved in such forums to enable bidders to better understand the procurement process  within those entities.

The National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) is inviting bids for the rehabilitation of the electric pump at Trafalgar, West Coast Berbice.

Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited is once again sponsoring the 2016 edition of the Right Start Pan Minors Music Literacy Programme.

Six new Heads of Missions are undergoing a one-week orientation at the Foreign Service Institute, after which they will be deployed to their various posts overseas and were challenged by Foreign Minister Carl Greenidge to be strategic thinkers.

For the year so far, there has been a 50 per cent reduction in fatal accidents in Berbice and Traffic Chief of ‘B’ Division Boodnarine Persaud has linked this to the high number of persons charged and prosecuted for traffic violations.

Improved and new services will be rolled out in the coming months, with the liberalisation of the telecommunications sector on the horizon, now that the Telecommunication (Amendment) Bill 2016 has been passed in parliament, Chief Executive Officer of GTT Justin Nedd has said.

The suspect in the fatal beating of mechanic Yugeshwar Shiwcharan is yet to be recaptured, one week after he escaped from the La Grange Police station lockups.

At approximately 10:35 yesterday morning, a burnt feeder panel at the Old Sophia substation caused a shutdown of  the entire GPL Demerara-Berbice Interconnected System (DBIS) with the exception of the West Demerara feeders.

Last Friday, Dawn Stewart, the unopposed nominee of the Guyana Equality Forum (GEF) was elected as the civil society representative to the monitoring mechanism for programmes funded here by the Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

Yesterday morning Kim Højlund Christensen was accredited as non-resident Ambassador of Denmark to Guyana.

Radio Mabaruma 95.1 FM, an affiliate of the National Communications Network (NCN) is currently down and off air, GINA said yesterday.