Guyana News

After-tax profit for the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) soared by 28% last year compared to 2020.

Underscoring the societal and public health issues caused by drug addiction, which it says it recognizes lead to many drug addicts committing minor offences to support their habits, the judiciary is currently conducting a training workshop aimed at sensitizing participants about the objectives of the adult and adolescent Drug Treatment Courts (DTC) and the roles they would be required to play as drug court team-members.

Valiant efforts to rectify the mechanical issues at the Guyana Sugar Corporation’s (GuySuCo) Uitvlugt estate, have so far proven futile and plans are afoot to call off the estate’s first crop, a source familiar with the issue said.

Minister of Education Priya Manickchand at the opening of the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) 2nd Triennial Delegates Conference on Wednesday promised that teachers will find no resistance from the ministry on sensible and practical positions.

By Aviso Paul With foul play suspected to be behind the fire that claimed the life of 51-year-old Nicola Marshall Jacobs, her 10 children are demanding justice and have called on the Guyana Police Force and the Guyana Fire Service to conduct a thorough investigation.

Two weeks after a wanted bulletin was issued for him in relation to the murder of a miner, 19-year-old Joshua Williams was on Wednesday found hiding in his father’s Kuru Kururu, Soesdyke/Linden Highway home.

Rawl DaCosta of Lower Pomeroon River, Region Two was yesterday sentenced to 18 months imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to an unlawful wounding charge.

Guyana was one of 25 countries which yesterday voted for a resolution at the  Organization of American States (OAS) to suspend Russia as a permanent observer to the inter-governmental institution over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.

Despite complaints of poor water quality from their current arrangement, residents within the communities of Betsy Ground and Gangaram, Region Six have opted out of receiving potable water from the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI).

An elderly Rose Hall Town, Corentyne woman is now in critical condition  after she was found yesterday with a slit on her throat in a veranda located in the lower flat of her house.

The Guyana Police Force yesterday reported that during drug eradication exercises on Wednesday along the Berbice River a total of $45m in narcotics was destroyed.

Senior Minister in the Office of the President with responsibility for Finance, Dr Ashni Singh, along with fellow Governors of the Caribbean Region on Wednesday  attended a meeting with World Bank Managing Director, Axel Van Trotsenburg, held under the theme “Road to Recovery: Tools for Building Back Better in the Caribbean”.

The Guyana National Cadet Corps (GNCC) recently concluded a four-day Annual Staff Conference and Retreat at the Aurora Secondary School, Essequibo Coast, a post on the Guyana Defence Force Facebook page said.

President Irfaan Ali on Tuesday accepted Letters of Credence from Mario Chan as the Non-Resident Ambassador of the Philippines to Guyana and the Letters of Commission from Ignatius Graham Mudzimba as Non-Resident Ambassador of Zimbabwe, according to an Office of the President release.

Ten new cases of the novel coronavirus have been reported by the Ministry of Health after its latest round of testing.

The report, “Lawyer accused of abusing cop charged with racial hostility,”  published in the Thursday, April 21, 2022 edition of Stabroek News, should have indicated that proceedings against attorney Nirvan Singh were based on a private criminal charge.

Minister of Health Dr Frank Anthony on Wednesday said that enough COVID-19 vaccines are available for all needed doses.

Dutch company SBM Offshore has shared a YouTube video of the lifting and installation of the first topsides on the Prosperity FPSO – what will be Guyana’s third oil platform – at the Keppel Offshore & Marine yard in Singapore.

-60-day review process underway An environmental study was yesterday submitted by ExxonMobil’s subsidiary to the EPA for a US$1.3b gas to shore project which the government hopes will lead to vastly lower energy costs that would enable a spurt in manufacturing but doubts have persisted over execution capacity and whether a real feasibility study has been done.

President Irfaan Ali  is to today formally write to Leader of the Opposition Aubrey Norton inviting him to a meeting to be held within the next two weeks, to discuss constitutional appointments which require consultations between the two.