Guyana News

By Khadidjah Ba Two days after a controversial 22nd Biennial Con-gress, re-elected him, PNCR Leader Aubrey Norton on Tuesday told Stabroek News that any consensus presidential candidate representing the opposition next year will have to come from within the party.

By Shabna Rahman With three houses up in flames side-by-side on July 1st, the occupants and others fought desperately to save a fourth dwelling that was under threat at Lot 14 ‘B’ Bush Lot, West Coast Berbice (WCB), averting what could have been an even bigger catastrophe. 

Enoch Carmichael, a 27-year-old goalkeeper, collapsed and died yesterday morning during a routine training session with the Guyana Defence Force Football Club (GDFFC) at the National Training Centre, Providence.

Construction work on the long-delayed Bamia Primary School is yet to be completed and according to officials at the Region 10 Regional Democratic Council (RDC), an estimated December 31 completion is now foreseen.

The Public Procurement Commission (PPC) on Tuesday handed over its Annual Report for the year 2022-2023 to the Speaker of the National Assembly, Manzoor Nadir.

-Nandlall says will be done by weekend Government has not yet written to the United States Department of Justice for information it said it needs on the sanctions on businessmen Nazar Mohamed, his son Azruddin, and Permanent Secretary Mae Toussaint Jr Thomas but Attorney General Anil Nandlall SC has assured that it would be done by the end of this week.

-Todd tells OAS General Assembly Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Hugh Todd, has called on OAS member states to strengthen the region’s collective security to maintain the region as a Zone of Peace.

Seven officers of the Ministry of Labour’s Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Department recently completed a one-day Fall Protection for Competent Persons training course, a Ministry release stated on Tuesday.

Two Police ranks were on mobile patrol in the vicinity of Cracrana, Karasabai Village, South Pakaraimas on Sunday where they observed Vibert Thomas, a 29-year-old mason who was at the time riding a bicycle with a long metal object on his right shoulder.

Minister of Health, Dr. Frank Anthony yesterday received a donation of IT equipment from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) for the Maternal and Child Health Department.

This morning, a post-mortem examination with dissection was done by Government Pathologist Dr Nehaul Singh on the body of Kyrie Anthony Nelson, the three-month-old infant who died last week at an unlicensed daycare in Kaneville, East Bank Demerara and the cause of death was given as suffocation.

Prime Minister Mark Phillips conducted a site visit at the Friendship Wharf Facility on the East Bank of Demerara, today, to inspect two vessels and a bond.

The Chief Fire Officer, Gregory Wickham  today condemned any act of delinquency or unprofessional behaviour by ranks of the Guyana Fire Service.

HOUSTON, Reuters) – The final member has been chosen for a three-person arbitration panel meant to settle Exxon Mobil’s  claim against Chevron’s  $53 billion purchase of Hess Corp, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.

-say buildings could have been saved Bush Lot business owners who are reeling from a massive blaze on Monday which left one man dead and completely destroyed three buildings housing a total of six businesses, believe that had the GFS had better equipment the fire would have been quickly contained and their businesses saved.

Construction of the Kopi-nang Secondary School in Region Eight was launched yesterday with Minister of Education Priya Manick-chand turning the sod.

KINGSTON / PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – Hurricane Beryl barreled toward Jamaica as a powerful Category 4 storm yesterday, threatening to dump rain on parts of Hispaniola after leaving at least three people dead on smaller islands in the eastern Caribbean.

Former Secretary of the Rice Producers Association of Guyana and PPP/C Parliamentarian, Dharamkumar Seeraj, has been tipped for the position of High Commissioner to India, sources close to the process say.

-after several years on the run Jason Isaacs who was wanted in connection with the murder of an overseas-based Guyanese businessman back in 2021 at Reli-ance, East Canje Berbice, was held yesterday.

Guyana will be providing assistance to its sister CARICOM states recently hit by Hurricane Beryl and relief supplies went by plane to Grenada yesterday.