Guyana News

The Ministry of Public Works’s Special Project Unit will build the new airstrip at Matthews Ridge, Region One, at an approximate cost of $800 million and residents of the community will be hired during the process.

Policy Forum Guyana (PFG) has  launched an environmental education game, Eco-Uno, as a key component of PFG’s Embracing a 1.5°C Lifestyle Campaign, aimed at promoting sustainable living practices across Guyana.

The police say they are investigating the murder of Troy Rodrigues, called ‘Kelly’, a 23-year-old mechanic of Lot 165 Leopold Street, Werk-en-Rust, Georgetown, which occurred at about 19:15 hrs yesterday at Vlissengen Square, between West Ruimveldt Front Road and Mandela Avenue.

Commentator Christopher Ram has flayed the government and opposition for abdicating their responsibilities to the country to ensure a better deal with ExxonMobil, a circumstance he described as the surrender of the country’s sovereignty.

The United States District Court in the Southern District of New York has issued an Opinion and Order in the matter concerning Guyanese-born international artiste, Eddy Grant and former United States president, Donald Trump, ruling that Grant’s music was improperly used and the musician was not compensated for his creation. 

-further investment planned Massy Gas Products (Guyana) Ltd (MGPGL) on Thursday commissioned an Air Separation Plant at its East Bank Demerara facility which is intended to meet the country’s oxygen and nitrogen needs.

-factory workers on strike over production manager GuySuCo this week fired a production manager and head lab technician attached to the Rose Hall Estate after claims of sugar going missing sometime last crop.

-Dominica medical official The surge in migration of healthcare workers threatens the quality of care and jeopardises health outcomes for the people of CARICOM.

The police are seeking two men over the murder of Akeem Hamer at Samaroo Dam Pouderoyen, West Bank Demerara on Thursday night.

Police are investigating an accident which claimed the life of an unidentified female of mixed ancestry yesterday on the Lusignan Railway Embankment Road, East Coast Demerara, in the vicinity of the Lusignan Prison.

HugSol Logistics’ partnership with DB Schenker was launched here on Thursday.

Based on a commitment made by Vice President, Bharrat Jagdeo during a recent visit, $100 million has been earmarked to upgrade several internal roads from laterite to concrete at Campbelltown, an Amerindian village in Potaro-Siparuni, Region Eight, a Department of Public Information (DPI) release stated on Wednesday.

TOKYO, (Reuters) – Japanese trading house Mitsubishi (8058.T) said yesterday it has reached a preliminary agreement to buy a stake in and offtake low-carbon ammonia from ExxonMobil’s  (XOM.N),

The government is continuing with its drive to make post-secondary education and skills training available across Guyana’s rural and hinterland regions and this time it has focussed its attention on Yakusari, Black Bush Polder, Berbice, where more than 20 women, ages 16 to 38, are on a journey to becoming certified in Information Technology (IT).

Through the government’s Core Home Support Initiative, six families along the East Coast of Demerara had their dreams of home ownership come true.

James Lord, a 35-year-old labourer who allegedly stabbed his reputed wife to death on Sunday at Free and Easy, West Bank Demerara, is in police custody pending charges.

The Swan Health Centre, inaugurated on September 9, 2024 along the Linden-Soesdyke Highway, has been surrounded by confusion regarding its construction costs.

A Venezuelan woman, Katiuska DeJesus Carias, appeared yesterday before Magistrate Fabayo Azore at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court, where she faced deportation proceedings.

Yesterday, the Attorney General’s Chambers & Ministry of Legal Affairs and the Deeds & Commercial Registries Authority (DCRA) began a three-day Public Outreach in Region Nine (Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo) beginning at Lethem and continuing at several outlying communities.

President Irfaan Ali on Thursday attended a reception to commemorate the 214th anniversary of Mexico’s Declaration of Independence at the Marriott Hotel in Georgetown.