Guyana News

While lauding strides in the health care system, the PAHO/WHO Representative here  says that much work is yet to be done to realise universal equitable access to the best quality health care.

The Fourth Round of European Union (EU)-Guyana Political Dialogue took place on June 27, 2016 at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Guyana.

A Grove businessman is being accused of defrauding a man in the sale of a minibus, which could not be cleared through customs because it was too old.

President David Granger has hailed the Santa Fe Mega Farm in the Rupununi as “a reaffirmation of the bond between Guyana and the Caribbean, more so Barbados.”

The body of an Edinburgh, East Bank Berbice man was found hanging from a makeshift noose at his home on Wednesday but neighbours suspect that his death was staged to look like a suicide.

Residents of some sections of West Berbice have been affected by flooding again and are wondering where the water is coming from as they did not have that much rainfall.

Caricom has recognised that Guyana’s ongoing border controversy with Venezuela represents a struggle for the entire Caribbean region as it threatens the economic zones of several member states, according to Foreign Affairs Minister Carl Greenidge.

President David Granger and Prime Minister Andrew Holness of Jamaica yesterday sat down for bilateral talks at the Pegasus Hotel to discuss the strengthening of trade relations in the areas of agriculture, manufacturing and tourism and deepened cooperation in security, a release from the Ministry of the Presidency said.

Eighteen Officers drawn from Units across the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) have begun training on the Senior Command and Staff Course (SCSC) Number 14, which will prepare them for Senior Leadership.

Farmers of Canje, Berbice, are accusing stray catchers deployed in the area of wantonly impounding their animals, even when they are clearly under their watch.

Two brothers were yesterday remanded to prison by a city magistrate on charges of possession of marijuana.

A mother of two is hospitalized after the vehicle she was traveling in collided with a horse, on the Mocha Arcadia access road.

Guyana remains open to investment from within Caricom, according to President David Granger, who is confident of interest.

A police inspector attached to the Leonora Police Station succumbed from injuries she sustained in an accident while returning home from the flag-raising ceremony on May 26 that had also claimed the life of another woman.

A Kitty youth was yesterday charged in a city court with the gun-point robbery of one of his neighbours.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana,  CMC – Caribbean Premier League organisers today reiterated their commitment to stamping out corruption in the game after banning an Indian national from attending the competition for live betting during a game at Warner Park.

A cabinet sub-committee has been established to examine the audit reports that were commissioned by the APNU+AFC Government for criminal and negligent conduct, GINA said today.

A decision by the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) to apply previously unimplemented import taxes on a range of hardware and other inputs has left the manufacturing sector warning of dire consequences and Opposi-tion Leader Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday called for a reversal of the decision.

CARICOM Heads have agreed that before year end an arrest warrant treaty will take effect as part of a wider mission to improve cooperation among  law enforcement authorities and to boost security in the region.

While the Ministry of Social Protection yesterday said that it holds firm to the commitment that Guyanese living overseas will not benefit from an old age pension here, the opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP) says the decision clashes with the constitution.