Guyana News

Major rehabilitation works including the redesigning and re-engineering of several aspects of the troubled multi-million dollar Skeldon Sugar factory are being planned and the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) anticipates a significant increase in production at the factory next year.

(Jamaica Observer) National Integrity Action Limited’s executive director, Professor Trevor Munroe, has been appointed an individual member of Transparency International.

(Barbados Nation) More than a dozen international business companies (IBCs) left Barbados over a two-year period, taking away a quarter of the island’s tax base, says Opposition Leader Owen Arthur.

(Barbados Nation) An international aviation think tank has suggested that Caribbean governments must shoulder some of the blame for REDjet’s demise.

A 28-year-old wash bay operator last evening succumbed to his injuries after slamming into a median in the vicinity of Rahaman’s Park, Houston, East Bank Demerara.

Two prisoners on Sunday escaped from the Leonora Police Station lockups and according to acting police commissioner Leroy Brumell, two ranks who have been implicated could face criminal charges.

A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) wants Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Shalimar Ali-Hack to appeal last Friday’s decision by acting Chief Justice Ian Chang which dismissed her advice to charge Commissioner of Police Henry Greene with rape and it renewed its call for the commissioner to be removed from office immediately.

A 15-month-old girl was yesterday afternoon admitted to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) in a critical condition after rats bit out parts of her tongue and ear at her family’s Mahaicony home.

Senior Counsel Ashton Chase yesterday argued that the seats on the parliamentary committees must reflect the proportionality of the polls.

Hampton Scott of Lot 18 Supply, East Bank Demerara was late last evening shot in the left shoulder by two armed men who robbed his brother in the vicinity of the White Castle Fish Shop, Hadfield Street Brickdam.

Minister of Health Dr Bheri Ramsaran says he plans to have his technical people study the recent scientific studies by the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, which found popular bush remedies consumed in Jamaica and other Caribbean countries including Guyana to be potentially harmful.

A Nigerian national was yesterday morning reportedly intercepted with 21 kilogrammes of cocaine as he was about to leave Guyana backtrack for Suriname.

Late former President Desmond Hoyte has not been given the accolades he deserves for reforming Guyana and lifting its economy out of the doldrums.

When Guyana’s  indigenous peoples took to the polls last year there was a recorded  high volume of spoilt ballots,  low voter turnout and even evidence of them being misled by at least one major party, says the Electoral Assistance Bureau.

As store owners from the razed building at Regent and Wellington streets consider their future, the Guyana Fire Service is trying to determine the cause of the Sunday morning blaze that resulted in millions in losses and left many without jobs.

The University of Guyana yesterday launched its Online Library Service at the Turkeyen Campus to facilitate online access to over 65,000 books for students, staff and members of the public, while access to another 120,000 is expected soon.

Armed, masked pirates attacked and robbed a few fishing boats close to the Suriname waters between Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning and escaped with large quantities of fish, fish glue and other articles.

Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton yesterday sentenced Wayne Layne to six weeks imprisonment when he appeared before her at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court to answer charges of common assault and threatening language committed against his reputed wife.

Aubrey Stewart is known for his kite making skills; his kites are quite simple but guaranteed to fly.

A tobacco farmer who appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court yesterday charged with unlawful wounding was put on $15,000 bail by Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton.