Guyana News

Young actors in Guyana benefited from a workshop on Sunday, hosted by the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport, featuring world-renowned actor, martial arts champion, and professional bodybuilder, Silvio Simac.

Women in Energy (WIE) Guyana yesterday announced the results of its Annual General Meeting for the 2024-2025 term and new Board of Directors.

Tomorrow,  Tuesday, July 2, 2024, the Guyana Power and Light Inc (GPL) will be relocating and reconfiguring its network to facilitate the Gas-to-Energy Project and this will affect electricity supply for customers from Best Road to Vriesland from 10:00 PM to 2:00 AM.

As expected, Aubrey Norton was yesterday returned as Leader of the PNCR at its congress and a decision was also taken to anoint him as presidential candidate for next year’s general elections, blunting likely efforts to arrive at a consensus figure among opposition parties.

– Sources say withdrawal of key contenders for leader not recognised Up to press time last evening the PNCR was yet to announce the results of its congress even though voting was said to have concluded at around 8pm but the party assured those results for key positions, inclusive of party leader, would come swiftly.

Concerns by the opposition about what it believes is the premature publishing of the Preliminary List of Electors by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) will be raised at the body’s statutory meeting tomorrow, Opposition Commissioner Vincent Alexander has said.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced that it has screened the application for an environmental permit for the proposed China Road and Bridge Corporation Mobile Cement Concrete Batching and Asphalt Mixing Plant.

Part 82 Stabroek News spoke to members of the public in Hillfoot Village on the Soesdyke-Linden Highway about the rising cost of living and how it is affecting them.

Outgoing leader Khemraj Ramjattan, in an address at the Alliance for Change’s (AFC) Eighth National Conference on Saturday, underscored the party’s relevance and its crucial role in Guyana’s political landscape.

A 24-year-old unemployed man of Albouystown was arrested by police after he was found with an unlicensed 9 mm pistol in the vicinity of Red Dragon.

Thirty-year-old Horatio Williams of Mes Delices, Canal Number One, West Bank Demerara, who was remanded to prison in May for the offence of attempting to commit a felony, appeared last week before Magistrate Faith McGusty at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court and was placed on $100,000 bail.

As part of its contribution to the promotion of arts education and cultural enrichment in schools, the Ministry of Education’s Unit of Allied Arts recently gifted a drum set to President’s College which will assist in that school’s preparation for the upcoming AMITY Schools Steelpan Festival, an Education ministry release informed yesterday.

Residents along the Essequibo Coast will benefit from improved water both in quantity and accessibility because of the substantial advancements being made at the Onderneeming water treatment plant in Region Two.

Citizens Bank, Guyana will conduct a planned system upgrade and maintenance today, July 1, from 5:00 am to 11:00 am.

The licensed firearm that belonged to businessman Inderpaul Pramenauth, who died in an accident at Enmore on Friday, was recovered from the glove compartment of his Cadillac Escalade vehicle after it was processed by detectives.

The Ministry of Public Works has issued a notice to advise the general public that the Parika Highway, East Bank Essequibo, Region Three will be temporarily closed today and tomorrow  between the hours of 9:00 am and 11:00 pm.

Due to the adverse weather conditions expected with the passage of Hurricane Beryl, Caribbean Airlines advises of the following changes to its regional and domestic flight schedules for Monday, July 1.

The Caribbean Community today advised that, as a result Hurricane Beryl’s impending passage through the Region, the 47th Regular Meeting of CARICOM Heads of Government, scheduled for Grenada from 3-5 July, has been postponed to a date to be determined.

-cites corruption among regulators, civil servants   In perhaps its most trenchant criticism yet, the miners association yesterday said the government must put its foot down regarding gold smuggling and begin by curbing the illegal activities that precede it and it also adverted to corruption among regulators and civil servants.