Guyana News

Potable water supply will soon be restored to Mahdia, Local Government Minister Kellawan Lall told residents during a two-day visit to the area last weekend.

The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) is calling on all Guyanese and their organisations to speak out against what it described as the “spiteful dismissal” of the acting kitchen manager of President’s College, Claudia Shultz.

Climate change is turning out to be the most difficult economic issue the world has had to deal with and to combat it effectively economic growth will have to be shared equitably among developed and developing nations of the world.

Even as growth prospects remain good for next year, high oil prices and the increasing current account deficit of the United States and its role in imbalances in the global financial system could be cause for concern, says Nigerian Finance Minister Dr.

A breakfast dialogue by the Commonwealth Business Council (CBC) for Heads of Delegation saw the discussion of inclusive banking and access to finance by the poor, said Finance Minister Dr.

Police are still on the hunt for a gunman who was one of two who opened fire on a businessman and his son as they arrived at their Lamaha Gardens home early Monday morning.

Improvements in safety and traffic management on the roadways continue to receive considerable attention as focus is now being placed on developing a strategy to regulate the operations of public commercial transportation services.

Guyana was one of the countries that did not respond to a questionnaire issued in December 2006 by the Commonwealth Secretariat Gender Section.

Lindeners last evening came out in their numbers for a candlelight vigil at the crash site for the 10 persons who perished in last Wednesday’s road accident.

Three men who allegedly had various quantities of ganja for trafficking when they were searched at police roadblocks were remanded to prison when they appeared at the Providence Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

A speed boat operator who borrowed a knife from a vendor to peel fruits and failed to return it was stabbed to death with the same knife yesterday at Supenaam.

An alleged gang which has been robbing businesses and persons at gunpoint of millions during the year in all three counties was yesterday remanded to prison by Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton.

Two men accused of robbing a taxi driver of his car were remanded to prison when they appeared at the Sparendaam Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

An Information Technology (IT) teacher who allegedly had carnal knowledge of a 13-year-old girl was yesterday remanded to prison by Principal Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle.

A tally clerk who allegedly drove his motor car dangerously and struck down a motorcyclist on Durban Street resulting in the man’s death was yesterday remanded to prison by Principal Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle.

Climate change reforms are increasingly skewed in the interest of the developed world and Commonwealth finance ministers have a chance to reshape this, President Bharrat Jagdeo said last night while also revealing that he had offered to deploy the country’s entire rainforest in the global warming battle.

Commonwealth Deputy Secretary General, Ransford Smith in his address at the opening of the finance ministers meeting last evening said that Guyana is looking forward with increased confidence.

Stabroek News yesterday protested outside of the Commonwealth finance ministers meeting over the government’s withdrawal of state advertising but its employees were prevented from holding placards in what Editor-in-Chief David de Caires said was a breach of its democratic right.

Two men posing as customers yesterday walked into the Digicel outlet on D’urban Street, and stuck up an employee before escaping with the day’s sales and several high-priced cellular phones.

A businessman early yesterday morning shot and killed one of two gunmen who ambushed him and his son as they arrived at their Lamaha Gardens home in what appeared to be a robbery attempt.