Guyana News

President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday disclosed that recent alleged breaches of forestry procedures involve collusion between Barama Company Limited, some concessionaires and staffers at the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC).

Education Minister Shaik Baksh yesterday dismissed reports that some President’s College students who staged a protest over the water situation at the school were suspended or expelled, insisting that no action has been taken against the students.

A 34-year-old excavator operator was pronounced dead on arrival at the Bartica Hospital following an accident in the Upper Mazaruni area.

One of the names that has surfaced in the recent multi-million dollar fraud at the New Building Society (NBS), Kumar Ragobar was dismissed from the society on an unrelated matter but there is the view that he may have answers to question on the $69M theft from the account of a NBS customer.

Police Service Commission members were yesterday sworn in at the Office of the President two months after the National Assembly approved the nominees to sit on it but there is no chairman.

Kirkpatrick’s Catering has been given a last chance to apply to offer catering services to parliament with the reopening of the tender process.

Police yesterday said that a post-mortem conducted on Allison Paul, the mother of two whose body was discovered face-down in a trench near the East La Penitence Police Station on Friday, revealed that she died from asphyxia due to drowning.

The European Union has partnered with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Government of the Netherlands to implement a sustainable management of the Guiana Shield Eco-region and Guyana’s Iwokrama forest is included.

The Caribbean Water Initiative (CARWIN) yesterday made a donation of a US$8,000 water quality testing kit to government to boost effective water management and St.

Four patrons of a liquor restaurant at Line Path, Skeldon were attacked by four men, two of whom were armed with firearms and two with knives.

Media liaison officer in the Office of the President (OP) Kwame McKoy yesterday acknowledged that he was behind controversial billboards on the maritime tribunal award and said he had done it after being approached by some businessmen.

Four cows were last evening killed and six persons injured after a Route 42 minibus spun out of control around a turn at Land of Canaan on the East Bank of Demerara.

A mother, her son and a friend were on Sunday attacked and robbed by two bandits at her Annandale South, East Coast Demerara home.

The Ministry of Education in collaboration with Caricom last week held a teacher training workshop aimed at introducing Spanish to the primary school curriculum.

Some 173 youths from across the country recently began a ten-month residential stint at the Kuru Kuru Training Centre under the Youth Entrepreneurial Skills Training programme.

The Guyana Police Force wishes to inform members of the public that persons are not required to pay for mini-bus passes when they need to travel out of the dedicated zone of the mini-bus.

The post-mortem report for Farouk Razac was on Friday tendered into evidence at the preliminary inquiry at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

While the ban on travel via the semi-legal ‘backtrack’ route between Guyana and Suriname remained in effect yesterday, desperate Guyanese boat owners were taking their chances in the nights.

A car with nine persons early yesterday morning turn turtle and ended up in a trench at Clifton Public Road, Corentyne, Berbice after the driver swerved to avoid hitting a man.

The promised lead testing of toys on the market by the Guyana National Bureau of Standards is yet to get underway as the Bureau moves to link up with a Caribbean institution in the absence of the capacity here.