Guyana News

The University of Guyana Senior Staff Association (UGSSA) and the University of Guyana Worker’s Union (UGWU) yesterday called for Chancellor Compton Bourne to be removed when its members picketed for better salaries, benefits and working conditions at the Turkeyen Campus.

Taxi drivers yesterday foiled a carjacking, which ended after a high speed chase on the East Coast of Demerara.

An argument between neighbours over a cockfighting bird ended in gunfire yesterday morning, leaving one person critical and two others wounded.

Chief Executive Officer of COPS Security and former army Lieutenant Colonel Gregory Gaskin died yesterday, after suffering internal injuries when he fell from his motorcycle at the South Dakota Circuit, Timehri.

AFC Leader Raphael Trotman last evening announced that party Chairman Khemraj Ramjattan would replace him in a few weeks as leader.

The bodies of the three men, who were reported missing after a boat they were travelling in overturned in the Puruni River on Monday last, have been recovered and are said to be at the Puruni Landing.

Prime Minister Sam Hinds says that come July 1, the people of Linden will face higher tariffs for electricity and that residents of the mining town  “will have to manage the best way that they can manage.”

Speaker of the National Assembly Raphael Trotman yesterday accused the state-owned Guyana Chronicle of an attack on his office, stemming from a report he described as a blatant untruth.

A 22-year-old Colombian national who at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri was discovered to have entered Guyana illegally was yesterday fined $50,000 and ordered to be immediately deported when she appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

Minister of Health Dr. Bheri Ramsaran yesterday denied recent reports in the Kaieteur News about inflated prices for certain drugs under a billion-dollar contract and he also pointed to international concerns about counterfeit items and said his ministry is seeking to avoid this.

Guyana has ranked 24 out of 26 Latin America and Caribbean countries assessed in an index examining their ability to foster low carbon energy growth, only faring better than Suriname and Venezuela.

Dr Heather Johnson, Caricom Secretariat Deputy Programme Manager, Youth Development, was decorated in the Order of Grand Officer of the Yellow Star of the Republic of Suriname by the Government of Suriname, last week, said a press release from the Caricom Secretariat at Turkeyen.

The Timehri (North) Community Development Council (TNCDC) last Saturday completed a six-day clean-up campaign and it is putting those responsible for dumping waste in the community on notice that it will move to have them prosecuted if they continue.

Canadian gold mining company Guyana Goldfields, which is advancing the next phase of its mining development project in Aurora, Cuyuni River, is looking for workers for several construction projects.

The University of Guyana Berbice Campus (UGBC), Tain will be hosting Drainage and Irrigation (D&I) Systems Management workshops for various stakeholders.

A man who threatened to physically harm his wife at her workplace because she did not call to wish him happy Father’s Day was yesterday bonded to keep the peace and be of good behaviour for one year.

The police yesterday said that at about 2210h Tuesday night, two men armed with firearms entered the Popeye’s Restaurant at Vlissengen Road and Duncan Street, Georgetown, and held up the three female cashiers and two customers.

Leader of the Opposition David Granger recently told residents of Sawariwau in South Central Rupununi, “You are not ‘bush’, you are part of a 21st century country and your children deserve a higher standard of education; you deserve better roads and bridges;  you deserve a good life…” Brigadier (ret’d) Granger and his team which included  Member of Parliament Sydney Allicock; Regional Democratic Councillors  Vincent Henry, Carl Parker and  Dionysia Thres visited Sawariwau,

A man arraigned on two counts of narcotics trafficking  was yesterday remanded to prison after appearing before Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff welcomed world leaders to a rainy Rio de Janeiro yesterday under a cloud of criticism that a three-day summit is falling far short of its promise to establish clear goals for sustainable development.