Guyana News

Guyana’s expanding oil and gas sector will not affect the country’s environmental credentials, effectively allowing it to maintain its carbon sink status, according to Senior Director for Climate and REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation) in the Ministry of Natural Resources Pradeepa Bholanath.

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Friday shared a proposal by government to remove the names of dead persons from the National Register of Registrants.

Two persons are now missing and feared drowned after a small tug in which they were travelling capsized on Friday night as they were heading into the Canje Creek.

A teenage Rose Hall Town, Corentyne money changer was robbed of $1.5 million in cash yesterday morning by men who pretended that they wanted to convert a large amount of United States currency.

A 19-year-old shopkeeper is currently hospitalised after he was shot early yesterday morning by two bandits who broke into his Sophia business.

This the first entry in a series on the current state of civil society in Guyana.

The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) President Patrick Yarde has said that successive “incompetent” ministers of Labour have continued to disregard the rights of both workers and trade unions, thus creating conflicts.

Guyana’s low cost oil resource continues to be key for Stabroek Block partner Hess, which on Wednesday said it foresees global commodity demand for decades to come, even as the company vowed to continue accelerated development as requested by the current government.

A fire, suspected to be an act of arson, destroyed a Good Hope, East Coast Demerara (ECD) house on Friday night.

A young teacher was on Friday held at knife-point and robbed of over $300,000 worth of valuables at Tuschen New Housing Scheme, East Bank Essequibo (EBE) as she was walking home from school.

The Pan-Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) has announced that it will provide over one 100 programme planners and health care service providers from the region with the opportunity to complete programmes on Clinical Management of HIV and Leadership and Management in Public Health with the Global Health E-Learning Program (eDGH), University of Washington. 

The University of Guyana will be hosting a virtual symposium to mark 184 years of East Indian Arrival to Guyana on Wednesday.

The Ministry of Labour has announced the appointment of interim committees to manage the business of two more co-operatives.

Two persons are feared drowned after the tug they were on capsized a short distance away from the Canje Bridge last night.

Following the pronouncement of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) that the Government of Guyana is guilty of violating the rights of Isseneru and its villagers, the community’s leader have said that the violations have intensified.

A Corentyne man yesterday confessed to investigators in Region Six that he killed his ex-wife after he overheard her on the phone with her new partner, the Guyana Police Force has said.

When the decision is made in September on whether Guyana should establish a National Oil Company (NOC), it will be based on studies currently being undertaken by government and its “technical team” and not just  blanket advice from organisations like the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo said on Friday.

A preliminary analysis has confirmed the presence of cyanide in the substance found in the vehicle where the bodies of Paishnarine ‘Ritchie’ Hansraj and Justin Teixeira were found in the parking lot of the Marriot Hotel last Saturday, according to the Ministry of Home Affairs.

Although he ruled out the possibility of any increase in National Insurance Scheme pensions and benefits in the near future, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday assured contributors that their contributions are secured for the next 100 years.

Noel Anthony Fredericks, the Mainstay man who was last seen sometime between April 14 and April 20, in Region Seven, was found dead on Wednesday by ranks of the Guyana Police Force (GPF).