Guyana News

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo said on Friday that the proposed expansion to four lanes of the highway between New Amsterdam and Moleson Creek in Berbice will cost approximately US$400 million.

Twenty-two-year-old Jarod Granville of Henrietta on the Essequibo Coast was on Friday ordered to pay a fine of $10,000 after he pleaded guilty to a drug trafficking charge. 

The Guyana Police Force has stated that it seeking legal advice in the matter of a man had died at Frenchman Backdam in the upper Demerara River, Region Ten, last month.

Yesterday, Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) Officers conducted an operation at a property located at Festival City, North Ruimveldt, Georgetown, where they intercepted one male with two hardcover suitcases in his possession.

President Irfaan Ali yesterday launched the construction of a $3.7 billion stadium and multipurpose facility at Palmyra, Region Six, with funds from ExxonMobil’s Greater Guyana Initiative (GGI), stating that there will be no excuses for not delivering the project on time.

Guyana’s next general elections will be held in November or December 2025 owing to the five-month impasse that followed the 2020 polls.

Government is mulling a day-to-day reporting system for foreign currency at commercial banks, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo said yesterday, in order to have an understanding behind the alleged short-age.

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo announced yesterday that the government will tap into Indian expertise in tissue culture to boost the agricultural sector, as well as other areas.

Following the approval of India’s cabinet to a proposed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to deepen the energy relations between Georgetown and New Delhi, Foreign Minis-ter of the South-Asian country Subrahmanyam Jaishankar will be in Guyana to sign the document, the government announced yesterday.

Former Deputy Mayor of George-town, member of the Alliance for Change (AFC), former president of the Georgetown Cricket Club, and businessman, Lionel Jaikaran, 57, of Parade Street, Kingston, George-town, was found dead at his home.

Acting Commissioner of Police Clifton Hicken has issued stern instructions to senior traffic to implement strategies to reduce the sudden increase in road fatalities which according to police figures has 18 for the year.

Two persons are now in custody after one of them was intercepted by the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) while further investigation had later led to the arrest of the other.

The Ministry of Human Services and Social Security, through their Guyana Women’s Leadership Institute’s and Women Innovative and Investment Network (WIIN) has so far distributed a total of $16.2 million to over 200 women as seed funds to enable women to ‘start-up’, ‘build’ and ‘foster’ their entrepreneurial businesses.

A man who was recently arrested for posing as an employee of the Ministry of Housing/Central Planning and Housing Authority and purporting to be in a position to sell plots of land to other persons was yesterday granted bail in the sum of $250,000.

Speaker of the National Assembly, Manzoor Nadir, on Thursday morning launched the Regional Speaker’s Youth Debating Competition.

Massy Motors yesterday announced their lucky grocery winners who all received $50,000 each in vouchers along with the other winners who won paid electricity bills and oil change among others.

The Guyana Police Force’s Regional Division 4B (Traffic Department) on Thursday launched their National Road Safety Council at Diamond, East Bank Demerara, under the theme ‘Safe Driving, Saves Lives’.

Students from the Karasabai Primary secondary department in Region Nine, (North Rupununi), are benefiting from online classes taught by subject specialists and seasoned educators on the coast.

Key personnel from the Bureau of Statistics and other national and regional agencies were recently trained in the use of a Statistical Business Register (SBR) application which facilities the integration of administrative data.