Guyana News

Advertising agency Impressions has dismissed a Facebook post which made certain allegations about the head of the company.

Demerara Tobacco Company Limited (Demtoco) has registered a profit of $1.28b for the first half of this year.

Columbia, Essequibo Coast businessman, Haimant Chowtie aka `Two Leaf’  and his family were robbed over the weekend of cash and jewellery.

In keeping with its mandate of monitoring local content within the petroleum sector, the Director of the Local Content Secretariat (LCS), Dr Martin Pertab, and Secretariat staff visited Halliburton last Friday.

The Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Guyana Public Service Co-operative Credit Union Ltd (GPSCCUL) which was convened on August 25th had to be adjourned because of the lack of a quorum.

Aside from salary increases, the Ministry of Education and the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) Memorandum of Agreement on Wednesday 21st, 2023 outlines a series of agreements on housing, health and other areas for 2024 to 2026.

-38,921 claims for sickness benefit disallowed   The National Insurance Scheme (NIS) saw a 16.5% rise in income for 2022 and a hefty boost to its insurance fund.

The Office of the Prime Minister says that its facilitating agency, the National Data Management Authority (NDMA), has completed phase one of the Low Earth Orbiting (LEO) Satellite Connectivity project, which aims to benefit over 250 hinterland, remote, and riverain communities, by the end of this year.

A total of 362 toshaos, senior councillors and chairpersons of the Community Development Councils from across Guyana were sworn in as ex-officio justices of the peace (JPs) and rural constables at the recent toshaos conference.

The Central Housing and Planning Authority (CHPA) is urging trucks and other heavy-duty vehicles operating in the new Lusignan housing scheme not to use the Lusignan Prison Road.

(Reuters) – The Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) said on Thursday it has imposed an administrative penalty of C$50,000 (US$36,764.71) on Imperial Oil  over a months-long toxic tailings leak at the oil and gas producer’s Kearl oil sands mine.

The University of Guyana is set to begin its new academic year for 2024/2025 with a week-long series of orientation sessions starting today and culminating on Friday August 30th.

Stabroek News spoke to Toshaos from various villages in the hinterland about the cost of living and how it is affecting them.

Op-Ed by Lilian Chatterjee, High Commissioner of Canada to Barbados and former High Commissioner to Guyana As I end my diplomatic career as Canada’s High Commissioner and return to Ottawa at the end of August, I do so with enormous gratitude and pride for the privilege Prime Minister Trudeau bestowed on me over the past 7 years to represent Canada to Guyana, Suriname and CARICOM (2017-2020) and Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean State (2021-2024).

Lawrence Wayne, called ‘Boy Boy’, who was injured during the fatal shooting incident on D’Urban Street yesterday morning, succumbed to his injuries today at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

Sam Melville, a 44-year-old manager employed at the Markanata Ranch in Central Rupununi, Region Nine, was arrested by Police at about 00:30hrs this morning after he was found with an unlicensed firearm and a live round of ammunition.

-six others injuredA businessman of South Ruimveldt was fatally wounded yesterday morning on D’Urban Street when four gunmen in a car opened fire and five other persons were injured.

By Nazima Raghubir Nancy McKenzie reaches for a pack of exercise books, her customer is a teenager shopping for school supplies, “this is what I live on,” she quips, “I came here to make a living.”

A 31-year-old taxi driver who was wounded last week at Parika, East Bank Essequibo in an altercation with a 30-year-old construction worker, succumbed to his injuries at the Georgetown Public Hospital Intensive Care Unit on Friday.

More than a month later, the Public Procurement Commission (PPC) is still to be updated by the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) on the progress of the Belle Vue pump station which was controversially awarded to Tepui Inc.