Guyana News

The Guyana Labour Union (GLU) is threatening strike action if workers of the New Amsterdam Town Council do not receive their October salaries by today.

Contractors likely to be awarded Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) contracts were on Tuesday oriented about the company’s expectations and reminded of their obligations regarding adherence to work standards.

The partly decomposed body of an elderly man was yesterday found in a trench next to the Mandela Avenue dump site, Princes Street, Georgetown.

Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton yesterday remanded to prison a man accused of robbing another man of items valued at $22,000 at gunpoint.

Two brothers accused of attempting to kill another man were remanded to prison when they appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

A man who was said to be engaged to a girl under the age of 15 was refused bail after he appeared before Magistrate Geeta Chandan at the New Amsterdam Court recently to answer a charge of carnal knowledge.

The captains and crew of 22 fishing vessels of the Number 66 Fish Complex were left stranded in the Corentyne River on Sunday, after armed pirates relieved them of their gasoline, engine coils and a quantity of fish glue.

The Mayor and City Council (M&CC) is pressing its case for the introduction of new revenue earning measures arguing that its is currently operating at a deficit of more than $2 billion, while its collectable amount currently rests at only $1.6 billion a year.

Relatives of a man who died after a road accident on the Corentyne recently, have alleged that he was turned away from the Port Mourant Hospital and sent to New Amsterdam 14 miles away, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.

A Triumph man was killed, two women hospitalized and several others injured when a minibus ran off the Public Road at Hope, East Coast Demerara (ECD) late Monday night and crashed into a bridge before landing in a trench.

As the world observes World Diabetes Day today, the Ministry of Health has announced that it will soon launch a programme to encourage corporate sponsorship of children living with diabetes.

An eight-year-old lost her life last evening when a car slammed into her as she was about to cross the Public Road at Liverpool, Corentyne Berbice.

Vendors at the Mackenzie Waterfront Market turned up yesterday to find most of their stalls demolished and partly demolished, but after an emotional meeting with the authorities have been granted a respite.

It is said that when America sneezes, the rest of the world catches a cold and contagious sub-prime mortgage crisis in America, which spells trouble for the Caribbean is proving this right.

Twenty-two University of Guyana (UG) graduates are participating in the Neal and Massy Guyana Group one-year Graduate Training Programme which opened on Monday at Demerara Oxygen Company (DOCOL) Board-room, at Eccles, East Bank Demerara.

The recent upsurge of violence committed against children, including the brutal sexual abuse and murder of a nine-year-old last week, has prompted the United Nations Children’s Fund’s (UNICEF) outrage and a call to action by all sectors of society.

President Bharrat Jagdeo on Monday urged Caribbean indigenous banks to close the spread between interest rates for deposits and loans, warning that if they do not become more competitive, banks from outside the region could take their business away.

Barama has been given a number of guidelines by which it has to commission an audit of its operations in the wake of a number of findings which an investigation unearthed some weeks ago leading to the company being fined $96.4M.

The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) said it found several violations in brands of cigarettes being sold to the public and reminds importers to ensure that their purchases are in compliance with the national standards for labelling.

Police on the West Bank Demerara on Monday found 30 kilogrammes of marijuana packed in a tarpaulin and stashed in a clump of bushes.