Guyana News

Minister of Amerindian Affairs Pauline Sukhai, on Saturday delivered water tanks to 6 residents of Citrus Grove, Port Kaituma Neighbourhood Democratic Council to help them benefit from improved access to potable water.

Minister of Finance Ashni Singh on Saturday evening paid tribute to those who conceptualized the Dependant’s Pension Fund (DPF), as he joined in celebrating its 100th anniversary at the Georgetown Club.

The African Cultural and Development Association (ACDA) is in its 30th year and will be celebrating its 30th Emancipation Festival at the National Park on Freedom Day, Tuesday, August 1st 2023, under the theme “30 Years of community” #UBUNTU and sub theme “Our 1823 Bicentennial Martyrs, Reviving their spirit”.

Director of Prisons Nicklon Elliott has adopted a ‘managing by walking around’ strategy to enhance communication and facilitate improved decision making with prison staff and inmates at various prison locations.

By Joseph Allen The system did not work for the 16-year-old who alleged that she was sexually assaulted by former minister of Local Government and Regional Deve-lopment Nigel Dharamlall, Head of the Alliance for Change (AFC) Khemraj Ramjattan has said.

Literacy among students remains one of the biggest problems plaguing the education sector leading to disparity in academic performance and examination results and Education Minister Priya Manickchand said schools across the nation will soon benefit from enhanced literacy programmes to curb the issue.

Interviews and photos by Subhana Shiwmangal Stabroek News spoke to members of the public in South and North Ruimveldt, Georgetown about the cost of living and how it is affecting them.

Minister of Home Affairs, Robeson Benn, the Commissioner of Police, Clifton Hicken and other senior officers today, laid wreaths in remembrance of the 67 police ranks who lost their lives in the line of duty.

While several key electoral reform recommendations have been addressed, 19 others – including campaign financing and dispute resolution – remain untouched, according to a report from the European Union (EU) Election Follow-Up Mission (EFM).

Five Chinese nationals are today counting their losses and are also thankful that their lives were spared after a fire  ripped through a building at Sussex and Saffon streets that housed a supermarket.

A 38-year-old motorcyclist of Linden, Region Ten died following a collision with a concrete lamp post on the Houston Public Road in the vicinity of Rahaman’s Park yesterday afternoon.

Chief Justice (ag) Roxane George has found that attorney Tamieka Clarke’s fundamental right to personal liberty was breached by the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) when she was briefly arrested on October 28 last year while advising her client.

Attorney-at-Law Ronald Burch-Smith, says that Senior Counsel Ralph Ramkarran’s description of the justice system “being on the verge of collapse” is no exaggeration; and credits the deficiencies to the absence of the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) which should have been reconstituted some six years ago.

Even after a late night confirmation on his availability to address the commissioning ceremony of the US$120 million Kiln #15 and Metallurgical Grade Bauxite (Maz) Project of the BOSAI Minerals Group (Guyana) (BMGG) Inc, l Chairman of Region 10, Deron Adams, said he was removed from the programme.

By Joseph Allen As Guyana continues to develop as an oil and gas economy, the perception of everyone being taken care of remains a myth.

The Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board (C-NLOPB) has issued a warning to ExxonMobil Canada and a drilling contractor over a potentially fatal incident on a drilling platform.

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) is getting ready to host over 1,500 military personnel from 21 countries for the joint 2023 Exercise Tradewinds and on Friday appealed to citizens to welcome the visitors and not be alarmed by the heavy military presence throughout the country.

The International Building Expo 2023 was officially launched on Friday evening at the Amazonia Mall in Providence, East Bank Demerara.

A fire, the origin of which is yet to be determined, ripped through a two-storey timber and concrete house at Lot 50 Albion, Guava Bush, Corentyne, Berbice on Thursday, leaving two families counting their losses.

The Guyana Fire Service today said it has managed to contain a large fire that is continuing to burn at a Chinese supermarket located at Saffon and Sussex streets, Georgetown, opposite the La Penitence market.