Guyana News

Employees of Smart City Solutions on Tuesday demonstrated how parking meters proposed for the city would work if the highly controversial deal comes to fruition.

Rehabilitation works at the Kitty Market, which have been on hold for a month, are slated to resume next week, according to City Hall spokesperson Debra Lewis.

Officers of the Occupational Safety and Health Department of the Ministry of Social Protection yesterday handed over a report on working conditions at City Hall to Town Clerk Royston King, who assured its recommendations would be followed.

The police force’s capacity to combat cybercrime is expected to be improved by the participation of four police officers in an upcoming workshop in the Dominican Republic, according to Minister of State Joseph Harmon.

The Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the murder charges against Ganga Krishna and Avishkar Bissoon, the welders charged with killing a man and his two young daughters after setting their Robb and King streets home on fire, began on Thursday with the emotional testimony of the mother of the two girls.

A man was yesterday afternoon shot during a robbery at Foulis, East Coast Demerara, where it is suspected that his friend, who is a businessman, was the intended target.

The Guyana Police Force has not yet been unable to identify the body that was found in the aftermath of a house fire at Wales, West Bank Demerara on Thursday morning.

A South Sophia youth was yesterday remanded to prison on a charge of ganja trafficking after police say he was found with a quantity of the drug on him.

The International Children’s Heart Foundation has completed 13 surgeries and 14 interventional procedures during its fifth mission to Guyana.

Former President Donald Ramotar today released a letter written to him by the Head of BK Inc Brian Tiwari on March 23rd last year pledging continuing support to the PPP and best wishes for the then upcoming general elections.

A man this morning chopped his wife and two-year-old child to death at Crane, West Coast Demerara and wounded his mother.

Businessman Brian Tiwarie yesterday rejected claims that his company had taken possession of containers belonging to the fired Specialty Hospital contractor and he accused the Donald Ramotar administration of grossly mismanaging the project.

The Kato Secondary School, which was constructed at a cost over hundreds of millions of dollars, remains unoccupied because it is not safe for children, Minister of State Joseph Harmon said yesterday.

There is a major structural fault with the $350m bridge constructed across the Hope Canal,  East Coast Demerara, according to Minister of State Joseph Harmon, who yesterday said the structure has repeatedly shifted away from the road.

After hours of deliberations, the National Assembly last night approved almost $800 million in extra-budgetary spending including on 6000 solar panels to “green” State House and an army exercise aimed at testing the preparedness of the Guyana Defence Force which was done last year.

Prominent businessman and owner of BK International, Brian Tiwarie, is planning to open his own newspaper company here and has started the process.

An inquiry has been launched into the circumstances surrounding how two planes left Guyana illegally from the Eugene F Correia International Airport (EFCIA) last Saturday, Minister of State Joseph Harmon said yesterday.

Minister of Finance Winston Jordan has said that he is unsure of the ‘emergency’ funding the University of Guyana needs to reputedly prevent a collapse of the  institution.

The Ministry of Social Protection yesterday welcomed the latest classification on Trafficking in Persons (TIP), which has seen the country coming off the watch list for TIP, that is, moving from Tier 2 on the Watch List to just Tier Two.

Terrence McLean, the man who tried to extort $10 million from a city bank in the name of ISIS by threatening to detonate a bomb he claimed he had on him, was yesterday sentenced to three years in jail for the crime.