Guyana News

Government yesterday announced the establishment of the Bid Protest Committee which would look at the cases of tenderers who express dissatisfaction with specified contract awards in the public procurement system.

After weeks of staking out suspected smugglers at the Number 63 Beach, the East Berbice Corentyne Agriculture Association (EBCAA), which is a group of fishermen, who hail from the Corentyne area, with the help of Customs officers and ranks attached to the Number 51 Police Station, on Thursday nabbed two suspected smugglers.

The APNU+AFC government will honour the outstanding US$40,000 or approximately $8.4M payment, to People’s Progressive Party/Civic  consultant, Dr Cobina “Coby” Frimpong, but says that the work he has produced is useless for the area designed.

A pregnant woman and a caretaker were yesterday brought before a city court to answer a charge of having 6 pounds of cannabis in their possession.

Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo said on Thursday that government is ready to transform the sugar industry but said consensus is needed on the new direction.

Another statutory meeting was disrupted on Thursday as APNU+AFC councillors of Region Five continue to call for an apology from Regional Chairman Vickchand Ramphal over the alleged snub of President David Granger.

Residents of Moraikobai, affected by recent flooding, will receive aid in the form of food hampers through the Ministry of the Presidency from the Civil Defence Commission (CDC), a release from GINA said yesterday.

Minister of State, Joseph Harmon yesterday met with representatives from several ministries and    government agencies to broach a multi-stakeholder approach towards a developmental plan for the Mocha Arcadia Com-munity on the East Bank of Demerara.

Commissioners from the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM),  nominated by the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) are peeved that services cannot be provided in six Local Authority Areas (LAA) because run-off elections have not been held.

Facing a broiling controversy here over plans for parking meters,  Mayor of Georgetown,  Patricia Chase-Green yesterday met with municipal officials in Panama.

A fraud accused who ingested a poisonous substance on Wednesday in a holding cell at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts succumbed on Thursday evening at a medical institution.

Repeat scammer Gopaul Tiwari was yesterday slapped with another fraud charge after it was alleged that he conned a woman out of $5.4 million.

A Canal Number One resident yesterday pleaded guilty to falsifying his passport application and was fined $70,000 by the Chief Magistrate.

The alumni of the Berbice High School (BHS), in celebration of its 100th year of establishment, will commemorate this milestone with a week of activities with the aim to “train and build a cohesive society.”

A 52-year-old man was yesterday granted $500,000 bail after being charged before a city magistrate with unlawful wounding.

The Civil Defence Commission (CDC) will be meeting with US authorities to develop Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for oil spills as part of its preparedness and response effort in the event of a disaster, GINA said.

President David Granger on Thursday met with the new Consul General to Nickerie, Suriname,  Esther Griffith, at the Ministry of the Presidency, where he outlined his expectations as she takes up her new role.

The police are investigation a fatal accident that occurred about 1900h yesterday on Triumph Railway Embankment, ECD and which resulted in the death of a pedestrian Seenauth Persaud, 53 years, of Suraj Drive, Triumph, ECD.

The Guyana Police Force is currently investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of Tedd De-Young, who was involved in an altercation with a male juvenile on June 12, 2016.

Two of the five accused in the robbery of Land Court Judge Nicola Pierre and husband Mohammed Chan were today found not guilty by Magistrate Zamilla Ally-Seepaul and the other three will be sentenced on June 23.