Guyana News

The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) yesterday lobbied banks to take a proactive approach towards addressing the financial woes faced by the private sector and called for finances to be readily available for com-mercial entities to navigate challenges.

The Ministry of Tourism, Industry and Commerce has announced that a series of recommendations are to be made at the Splashmins Resort after an investigation was launched more than a month ago following reports of two alleged piranha attacks at the resort.

Teachers of children with autism were yesterday exposed to further training through the Special Education Needs (SEN) in collaboration with ChildLink Inc at the National Centre for Educational Resource Development (NCERD).

Government, through Attorney General Anil Nandlall SC, is demanding payment of the just over $1 million in court costs yet to be made by the eight Opposition Members of Parliament (MPs) who lost the case challenging their suspension from the National Assembly.

Passengers were on Wednesday afternoon stranded on the Essequibo River after a boat that left Parika for Supenaam apparently ran short of fuel, the latest in a string of such incidents in the waterway.

The Ministry of Education (MoE) is stating categorically, that contrary to reports in some sections of the media, the Christ Church Secondary School will be rebuilt with funding from the Government of Guyana.

A Good Hope labourer on Wednesday appeared at the Cove and John Magistrates Court where he was charged with two counts of robbery under arms.

A fire suspected to be arson has caused serious damage to the contents of a timber and concrete building yesterday morning at Agatash Village, Bartica, Region Seven.

Two persons were today charged at the Fort Wellington Magistrate’s Court with the assault committed on the Fort Wellington Secondary School teacher, Marlon Daniels who was beaten about his body on Monday by a student, his uncle and friends.

President Irfaan Ali yesterday signed an agreement with the European Union (EU) for the implementation of a $1.1 billion grant that aims to sustainably develop forest-dependent communities in Guyana.

Insisting that the contract was legal but not addressing key issues and concerns surrounding the US$34 million e-governance deal, government yesterday launched an attack on civil society group, the Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA).

Workers employed at one of the most active mining pits on the disputed Chinese Landing in the north west escaped injury and possibly death following a cave-in.

The Ministry of Home Affairs yesterday said that the new Guyana Fire Service HQ on D’Urban Lands is behind schedule and defects have to be addressed.

World Bank funding to reduce flooding in Georgetown will also address critical parts of the East Demerara Water Conservancy (EDWC).

CNOOC Petroleum Guy-ana Limited (CPGL), one of the three joint venture partners in Guyana’s Stabroek offshore petroleum block, has donated $4m for the rebuilding of the fire-ravaged Christ Church Secondary School.

With a judge ruling that there is no case against him, Kerwin Dos Santos has been discharged of the 2018 murder of America Street moneychanger Shawn Nurse; while his co-accused George Hope remains indicted for the capital offence.

Three Venezuelans were yesterday remanded to prison for an armed robbery that occurred in Region One.

Police are investigating a fatal accident which occurred yesterday  at about 19:30 hours, on the Timehri Public Road involving a blue and white zone 42 pitbull minibus, BYY 7852, owned by Randolph Moriah of Turkeyen, Georgetown and driven by Godfrey Collins, age 34 years, of Middle Walk, Golden Grove, East Coast Demerara; and pedestrian Gao Zhen Jin, a 59-year-old Chinese national.

A 23-year-old Soesdyke teacher yesterday found herself in hot water when she appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court where sentencing was deferred after she pleaded guilty to a charge of simple larceny committed on her ex-boyfriend.

By Aaliyah McFarlane Hundreds of students, teachers and parents from all across Guyana descended on Region Four’s Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (STEAM) Fair 2023 being held under the theme “Transforming Education through Innovation and STEAM.”