Guyana News

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.

President Irfaan Ali reassured Lindeners that they have a “very bright future” when he spoke yesterday at the Commissioning Ceremony of the US$120m Kiln #15 and Metallurgical Grade Bauxite (Maz) Project of the BOSAI Minerals Group (Guyana) (BMGG) Inc.

By Deneita Fredericks and Mia Anthony The Ministry of Education yesterday announced the results for the 2023 National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA and this year three students tied as the top performers scoring 506.7 out of 507.7; Anaya Jagnandan of the New Guyana School, Ritisha Gobin of Academy of Excellence, and Glasford Archer of Leonora Primary School, earning them a coveted place at Queen’s College.

A move to end time-consuming preliminary inquiries in the courts is moving ahead with a major reform bill soon to go to Cabinet and then to the National Assembly.

Twelve contacts were signed yesterday for the construction of the Tuschen Secondary in Region Three and the Hosororo Secondary in Region One.

The results of the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) written on May 03 and 04, 2023  were yesterday released to schools and there has been a significant improvement in the results for maths.

The Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) yesterday said that it has written Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton over comments he made at a recent public meeting about the First Lady, Arya Ali.

Shivnanand Henry called ‘Sunny’, a 29-year-old construction worker of DeGroot En Klyne, Uitvlugt, West Coast Demerara, was yesterday charged with the murder of his wife, Bibi Naseefa Baksh.

President Irfaan Ali says that there is a “real possibility” that CARICOM will achieve its ambitious goal of reducing the region’s food importation bill by 25 percent by 2025.

The fire that destroyed a section of the bustling Charity Market, Region Two on Thursday evening left three fire-fighters injured and destroyed twenty-nine stalls.

Safraz Khan, a 42-year-old businessman, is now in a stable condition after he was shot three times by a man dressed in a yellow raincoat.

Like his two other accomplices, Wayne Chester has also been sentenced to life in prison for the 2017 murder of Guyanese, Cayenne-based clothes vendor, Purcell Moore, who was shot dead during a robbery.

 Food For The Poor (Guy) Inc. will be hosting a Public Distribution tomorrow,  Saturday 8 July, 2023 at its Festival City Complex, 1999 – 2002 Blue Mountain Road, North Ruimveldt.

Gladford Archer of Leonora Primary, Ritisha Gobin of Academy of Excellence and  New Guyana School’s Ayana Jagandan are this year’s top National Grade Six Assessment performers.

A massive fire of unknown origin last night destroyed dozens of stalls at the Charity Market at Charity on the Essequibo Coast.

The reason Guyana is China’s top trade partner in the Caribbean is because Chinese businesses are aggressive and have been trading with this country even before oil and gas discovery and the numerous opportunities here were known, President Irfaan Ali yesterday said.

When Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton yesterday met with United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken, he presented a “dossier” setting out what the opposition believes is the marginalisation of people here, along with issues that in his opinion, need to be urgently addressed before the 2025 general elections.

Austin Street, Campbellville resident Safraz Khan was last night in critical condition after a gunman opened fire on him in what appeared to be an attempted `hit’.

New Mayor of George-town, Alfred Mentore, yesterday pledged to “bury the hatchet” and be a people‘s mayor in the execution of his duties.