Guyana News

The Ministry of Public Infrastructure (MPI) says it has delivered on its promise to install streetlights along the Diamond Access Road, East Bank Demerara and works have already started to extend the lighting project to Mocha.

Ensuring that historical sites are safeguarded for the benefit of  future generations, the National Trust of Guyana in partnership with World Monuments Fund, has organised the Georgetown International Heritage Conference.

Bandits struck at two businesses in Edinburgh, East Bank Berbice over the weekend carting off cash and other valuables and beating a restaurant owner.

A Sentinel Security officer is now a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital after he was run over by a Toyota Hilux jeep.

 (Reuters) – Paceman Kagiso Rabada led a brilliant South Africa bowling display that lifted the Proteas to a 47-run win over Australia in the triangular one-day international series in Guyana on Tuesday.

CASTRIES, Saint Lucia,  (Reuters) – St. Lucia’s conservative United Workers Party beat the incumbent Labour Party with promises of tax cuts and the resolution of a scandal over killings by the police that have hurt the image of the Caribbean nation, general election results showed on Monday.

Relative to the investigation into the grenade attack at Kaieteur News on Saturday, detectives from the Guyana Police Force (GPF) after reviewing surveillance footage have detained a motor car matching the description and six suspects, the GPF said in a press release today.

City Hall has backtracked on a deal to allow one company to install parking meters in Georgetown and Astrolobe Technology, a firm which had inked a deal with the previous council but was left out under the new arrangement, will now be part of the project but the agreement still has to be signed.

The lifeless body of a miner was early yesterday morning discovered with a suspected stab wound in front of a bar at Mahdia Landing and the police are currently pursuing two suspects.

Almost a month after the Tower Suites opened its doors and it was revealed that there was an  arapaima in a tiny pond at the Main Street hotel, a source from the Wildlife Authority says that the fish should not be kept in such an environment.

A revolver and several spent shells were yesterday handed over to law enforcers in ‘F’ Division following a fight between two men, one of whom has been arrested.

A man, who allegedly made death threats to Leader of the Opposition Bharrat Jadgeo and other members of the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) on Facebook, was arrested yesterday.

Continuous rainfall in the Matarkai Sub-District of Region One (Barima-Waini) has reduced an already deplorable Matarkai access road to an impassable slush dam posing difficulties to those who traverse the roads in the area.

Like previous years, the 2012 Auditor General’s Report on Region 4 revealed that fuel and lubricant were supplied to unauthorised users and one parliamentarian has urged government to tackle the persistent problem head-on as the police are not doing much.

Vendors occupying the Parliament View mall at Hadfield and Lombard streets yesterday complained bitterly about the conditions under which they have to vend when it rains.

The family of Onika Luke is seeking the public’s assistance in raising $100,000 to pay for a CT scan.

Three youths including a minor were yesterday remanded to prison after being charged with sexually assaulting a woman.

Last Friday’s meeting between the Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) and the Ministry of Education (MoE) to negotiate a multi-year agreement went “favourably for most of the non-financial issues,” GTU President Mark Lyte said.

Carifesta Avenue will be widened on the northern side and the contractors on the project are hoping that the $180 million improvement works would be finished by the end of this month.

With GBTI registering an after-tax profit of slightly over $2 billion for 2015 in what was described as a challenging environment, the bank’s Chairman Robin Stoby says that government’s fiscal policy has a crucial role to play in boosting economic growth.