Guyana News

With the aim of reducing the stigma and ignorance surrounding epilepsy here, the Epilepsy Foundation of Guyana is hoping to begin educating teachers and students about the condition and how to deal with it in schools.

Following a string of successes in his academic pursuits, Guyanese scholar Daniel Ram has set his sights on finding a vaccine for HIV which he believes could be developed in a decade’s time.

The University of Guyana has received a cheque from the Baveghems family  to sustain the Eusi Kwayana award for the next three years.

Taxi driver Gladwyn Brandis, who was beaten and robbed almost two weeks ago during a reported carjacking, has been discharged from the hospital even as police are yet to apprehend the perpetrators.

Requests to the Region Nine administration for food aid by villages in sections of the Rupununi may soon go unfulfilled as current supplies diminish due to mounting demands, Regional Chairman Bryan Allicock says.

(Reuters) – Australia qualified for the final of the triangular one-day international series (ODI) with a six-wicket win over West Indies in Barbados today.

The Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) and Caribbean Airlines (CAL) today reached a deal that would allow duty-free purchases by passengers leaving Guyana and having to transit through Trinidad and Tobago on their way to the US.

The city of Georgetown will have a functioning parking meter system as of September 1, 2016.

A minor explosion, during routine maintenance and inspection, on a Roraima Group of Companies aircraft yesterday resulted in a maintenance engineer sustaining burns.

Shemar Wilson, a suspect in the lobbing of a grenade outside the Kaieteur News office earlier this month, was not a member of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) at the time of the incident.

A young couple was yesterday remanded to prison after being charged in relation to last week’s drug bust at the Ogle airport where a mother of two was caught attempting to smuggle cocaine to Barbados.

A High Court judge has been singled out in the Prison Commission of Inquiry (CoI) report for the lengthy sentences he has been handing down to persons convicted of murder in recent years.

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) has called for the parking meter project to be “scrapped forthwith,” even as the Mayor of Georgetown Patricia Chase-Green announced plans to go ahead.

The much anticipated People’s Progressive Party (PPP) Congress has been set for December 16, 17 and 18 at the Cotton Field Secondary School on the Essequibo Coast.

Juliano Seunarine, the driver charged with causing the death of Christobel Hughes by driving in a dangerous manner while drunk was yesterday jailed for four years.

British High Commissioner Greg Quinn has called for more support and assistance for abused women and children here even as he urged the country’s citizenry to speak out when they become aware of such acts.

Hansel Andre Lewis, alias ‘Smiley,’ of John Lewis Street, Angoy’s Avenue in New Amsterdam, Berbice,  was found guilty yesterday of  attempted murder over the wounding of Chris Burrowes, called ‘Boonee’, during the early hours of  New Year’s Day  2013.

– 16 around country for rehab Residents of Diamond, East Bank Demerara, and surrounding areas can now feel a slight relief as the well, that has been giving problems, has been temporarily fixed and CEO of GWI Richard Van West-Charles said that by the end of the year the area should be equipped with another well.

A youth who stole two passports and other items from a woman in the city last year, was yesterday jailed for four years after being found guilty of the crime.

Elated that his years of contribution to the arts in Guyana have resulted in national recognition, illustrator and graphic artist Barrington Braithwaite is continuing to press for proper legislation for the industry so that artists can benefit.