Guyana News

The National Literacy Department of the Ministry of Education (MoE) yesterday announced the launch of a programme to target male students who failed to achieve a passing grade at the last National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) examinations. 

President Irfaan Ali says that his Government is positioning Guyana as a “major destination for eco-tourism” with Central American nation, Costa Rica, as a model.

For their share in a US$300 million investment made with two other local businesses in the NRG consortium for the Vreed-en-Hoop Shorebase Inc (VEHSI), the Nazar ‘Shell’ Mohamed-owned Hadi’s World Incorporated has pulled out and is selling its shares to the other partners, a decision, Mohammed says, is based on personal religious beliefs.

Believing that a company awarded a nearly billion-dollar contract for the construction of a pump station at Belle Vue, West Bank Demerara, did not meet the bidding criteria, former Minister of Public Infrastructure David Patterson has written to the procurement commission asking for an investigation to be launched into the matter.

Attorney-at-law Nigel Hughes yesterday stated that his clients facing elections fraud charges continue to be denied their right to a fair trial as their case has been prolonged for three years.

A contractor clearing vegetation in the Friendship backdam on the East Bank of Demerara triggered widespread power outages yesterday.

President Irfaan Ali (left) yesterday received the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) award for his Leadership in Food Security and Sustainable Development during a special award ceremony last evening in San Jose, Costa Rica.

As testimony continued yesterday at the third public hearing in the presidential inquiry into the Mahdia dormitory fire, the proceedings were disrupted by a power outage.

The Government of Guyana yesterday hailed the 124th anniversary of the arbitral award that settled the boundary with Venezuela and reiterated that it is awaiting settlement at the World Court of the controversy that arose over the border in 1962 In a statement, the government said: “As Guyana commemorates the anniversary of the Arbitral Award of 3 October, 1899, we continue to adhere to and embrace the rules of international law and respect our pacta sunt servanda (agreements must be kept) obligation”.

Following an appeal, Guyanese businessman Ghalee Khan was late last month re-sentenced in the US to a term of just 18 months, almost two years after he was initially sentenced to nine years in prison for drug trafficking and bail jumping.

Chairman of Region Four (Demerara-Mahaica) and Executive Member of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), Daniel Seeram is to appear in court on October 10 on a charge of assaulting his wife.

Two inmates of the New Amsterdam Prison were yesterday found guilty at the High Court of the murder of a fellow prisoner in an attack at the facility in 2017 In July, 2017, Dillon Boucher, 25, of Haslington Village, East Coast Demerara; Rooplall Abrahim, 24, of Lot 4 Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice; and Ramchand Latchman, 23, of Number 65 Village, Corentyne, were charged with the murder of Neshan Jagmohan, 27.

Arkanel Edwards called ‘Akko’ a 22-year-old logger of Capoey Mission, Essequibo Coast was charged yesterday with the attempted murder of 42-year-old Mark Rodrigues on March 11th.

George Aubrey Archer, a 72 year-old pensioner of Suddie Public Road, Essequibo was charged on Monday with possession of an unlicensed firearm and ammunition.

Yesterday, the Ministry of Education’s Migrant Education Support Unit in collaboration with the National Literacy Department (NCERD) hosted the second annual Spanglish Bee at the National Centre for Educational Resource Development. 

Mayor of Arima in Trinidad and Tobago, Balliram Maharaj, yesterday paid a courtesy call on Mayor of Georgetown, Alfred Mentore.

Lionel Fitzpatrick Haynes, a 61-year-old man of Auchlyne Estate, Corentyne, Berbice, was charged on Monday with riding an unlicensed motorcycle under the influence of alcohol.

Three Berbicians were today charged with robbery under arms over  the $50m heist at the Regional Democratic Council (RDC) of Region Six on September 13 and were placed on $500,000 bail.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua,  (Reuters) – Tropical Storm Philippe churned further northwest across the Caribbean today, the U.S.-based

A Corentyne woman who was shot on Sunday morning is now fighting for her life at the Georgetown Public Hospital while investigators have held her fiancé, Neil Madramootoo, an engineer in Region Six for questioning.