Guyana News

Opposition Leader, Aubrey Norton on Friday said that he has informed ExxonMobil of APNU’s and the AFC’s focus to elicit more benefits from oil extraction for the Guyanese people by utilizing provisions in the 2016 Production Sharing Agreement (PSA).

Minister of Health, Dr Frank Anthony yesterday commissioned a newly constructed Health Post in the Quiko community, located in Region Nine (Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo).

With some $420 million owed to the Bank of Guyana by the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) for its Sugar Trading Enterprise Pension Scheme (STEPS), President Irfaan Ali yesterday announced that government will pay the outstanding sums.

A Brazilian mechanic, Walter Oliveira, 49, who was reported missing after an accident involving a boat on Friday around 18:00 hours at Suriname Landing, Middle Mazaruni River, Region Seven, has been found dead.

Mobile phone company Digicel has concluded a summer promotional campaign in which millions were won by contestants in its  “Deal or No Deal” game shows.

The police say that they have arrested two persons who allegedly mugged an 18-year-old at around 11 am yesterday at Mandir Street De Willem, West Coast Demerara.

City Mayor Alfred Mentore yesterday said that the Promenade Gardens are open to the public despite the fact that on three separate days, visits by this newspaper found it closed to visitors.

Minister of Health,  Dr Frank Anthony, yesterday commissioned a $14M staff quarters-building at Yupukari Village, Region Nine (Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo).

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Hurricane Lee, a powerful Category 3 storm, was expected to move well north of Puerto Rico and the U.S.

President Irfaan Ali today hinted at the lifting of the minimum wage and the income tax threshold and also announced that a Democracy Award will be unveiled on October 5th.

Eureka Urgent Care and Pharmacy, the first facility of its kind in Guyana, was officially opened to the public yesterday at 264 Thomas Street, North Cummingsburg, Georgetown.

APNU councillor, Shurla Scott on Thursday reported to the Region Six council that there is a shortage of doctors, nurses and even medication at the Skeldon Public Hospital after having a first-hand experience at the facility.

The Ministry of Education (MoE) says the matter of what can or cannot be worn in schools will be taken to Cabinet for a decision to be made.

As the Government of Guyana continues to deal with the challenge of the influx of migrants into the country, it has disclosed that some 1,000 Spanish-speaking migrants are now a part of the school system.

Four brothers: 29-year-old Omesh Persaud, 26-year-old Avidesh Persaud, 21-year-old Yogeshwar Persaud and 18-year-old Adesh Persaud, all of Lot 14 David Rose Housing Scheme, Mahaica, East Coast Demerara were yesterday charged with beating a fisherman.

Twenty-nine-year-old Keshawn D’Aguiar appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court before Senior Magistrate Leron Daly where he was charged with a cybercrime.

A Canadian education institution is collaborating with the Guyana Online Academy of Learning (GOAL) to offer Programmable Logic Controller training for the manufacturing sector here.

A 44-year-old chef is now counting her losses after a fire destroyed her house at Itaballi Landing, Lower Mazaruni River.

Flavio Rhodius, 21, a mechanic of Lot 17 Gordon Street, Kitty, Georgetown, appeared yesterday, at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court before Senior Magistrate Leron Daly where he was charged with armed robbery.

Shamar Davis (address not stated) appeared before Senior Magistrate Leron Daly at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday where he was charged with robbery.