Guyana News

The Committee of Appointments has recommended Matthew Edward Hugh Langevine for the position of Director of the Financial Intelligence Unit after the top candidate for the position was barred following a police report.

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) says it is opposed to what it said is the growing militarisation of the State and Government apparatus in Guyana.

In an effort to allay fears it is losing its identity within the APNU+AFC coalition government, Alliance for Change (AFC) representatives were on Saturday urged by its executive to make themselves relevant and to be vocal on issues of national importance, particularly at the local government level.

The construction of an all-weather road in the Wales backlands that would enable private  farmers to transport cane to the Uitvlugt estate following the planned closure of cultivation at Wales, would be out for tender in the next two weeks.

Director of National Parking Systems and Smart City Solutions (SCS), Ifa Kamau Cush yesterday confirmed to Stabroek News that the parking meter contract signed between his company and the Georgetown Municipality is for 49 years.

The body of a man was found in La Grange early yesterday morning with a wound to his head and his relatives say they are convinced he was murdered.

The government is still awaiting a report from the Health Ministry on investigations into claims that contractor Brian Tiwarie was awarded all of the $800M in steel that was originally assigned to the now frozen specialty hospital project, Minister of State Joseph Harmon said Thursday.

Two persons are in custody assisting with the investigation of Saturday’s armed robbery on a La Jalousie, West Coast Demerara store that saw four bandits assault the owners and customers before carting off valuables.

Khirool Noorajhan, the sister of the Pomeroon boat collision victim whose death is now being treated as murder, says that she is living in fear after threats were made to her life for reportedly being too vocal.

The Mayor and City Council’s Legal Affairs Committee will be meeting today to discuss the way forward as it relates to the recently implemented container fees, according to a City Hall source.

Region Seven Chairman Gordon Bradford says he will not judge new Regional Executive Officer Roderick Edinboro based on comments about his performance in the Region Five administration, from where he was transferred.

A neighbour of the Guyanese-born American citizen who was found dead in her Maryland apartment last Friday has been charged with robbery and first degree murder.

Living with a disability can be challenging. Many times, people who do not live with disabilities may have a hard time understanding the plight of those who do.

The Ministry of Social Protection will be collaborating with the University of Guyana, UNICEF and the Guyana Association of Professional Social Workers (GAPSW) to host a conference on Standards for Professional Practice from July 20 to 21.

The trial of self-confessed drug trafficker Barry Dataram has been adjourned until next month.

Through individual government ministries, the National Task Force Commission (NTFC) has already made budgetary proposals for 2017.

President David Granger on Saturday evening said that Guyana stands firmly behind France over the July 14, 2016 terror attack in Nice, during the Bastille Day celebrations.

In the July 14th edition of SN under the headline `Activists challenge ministry over fire that killed two children’, it was incorrectly reported that Danuta Radzik is a member of Red Thread.

PPP/C MP Charles Ramson Jnr yesterday made a fresh call for a Commission of Inquiry (CoI) to be conducted into last year’s bungled Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) surveillance operation which left three persons dead and his wife and brother-in-law traumatised.

BATON ROUGE, La.,  (Reuters) – Three police officers were shot to death and three others wounded in Baton Rouge, Louisiana today, in what authorities said was an ambush less than two weeks after a black man was killed by police, sparking nationwide protests.