Guyana News

The Private Sector Commission (PSC) has expressed its concern over what it describes as the ongoing carnage on the nation’s roads. 

Seven months after Georgetown Mayor Alfred Mentore announced plans to meet the principals of the Qatar-based Assets Group over the proposal for a US$300 million hotel on Carifesta Avenue, that meeting has not occurred and there is no indication as to if and when it will.

During a recent visit to Yupukari, Region Nine, Minister of Education Priya Manickchand told the community that along with the secondary school currently under construction, teachers would be trained from among high school graduates in the area.

Under increasing pressure over traffic deaths and the rampage of heavy-duty trucks, the Guyana Police Force today said that that 1,353 traffic cases have been made over a two-day period with tinted glass being the highest single offence.

–CARICOM Chair The high cost of a suitable vessel has set back plans for a regional ferry service despite initial optimism that Trinidad’s Galleons Passage would have enabled a quick start-up.

Police are investigating an accident that claimed the life of a 34-year-old Port Mourant fisherman yesterday at about 16.50 hours after his vehicle ran into the Babu John access dam canal.

Leticia Reynolds, a 23-year-old woman from No. 30 Village, West Coast Berbice (WCB) is in critical condition after she was stabbed and chopped about her body, allegedly by her fiancé Philon Edwards, a 26-year-old Corporal with the Guyana Defence Force (GDF).

-new monthly minimum to be $125,000 Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) yesterday announced that together with the three unions operating in the DDL Group: the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU), the Guyana Labour Union (GLU), and the Clerical and Commercial Workers Union (CCWU), it signed on Wednesday, November 20, another five-year Collective Labour Agreement for the years 2025-2029.

-as police internal affairs body probing Lethem shooting, escape of prisoner The Police Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) is looking into the circumstances surrounding the alleged shooting incident involving Lethem Police Station officers and two wanted suspects, Cortland Jones and Rickford King at Aranaputa Valley, North Rupununi.

A state-of-the-art secondary school will soon be constructed in the community of Marurunau in Region Nine, the Department of Public Information (DPI) reported on Friday.

A landmark initiative saw 325 small contractors from Linden sign contracts worth $4.2 billion to upgrade community roads, according to the Department of Public Information (DPI).

` If anybody needed help, he’d be there’ The tragic death of Carlton Smartt, a 42-year-old electrical contractor following an accident on Tuesday morning on Sheriff Street has left an indelible mark on his family and community.

Two men from Hotoquai in the North West District (NWD) were yesterday arrested after illegal shotguns were found on their farms.

-Edghill cites pipelines Residents of Tucville, in Georgetown have expressed concern over the ongoing roadworks in the community, charging that contractors have reduced the width of Thorne Street to just 12 feet, rendering it unsuitable for two-way traffic.

Seven months after an accident on Water Street, Georgetown claimed the life of a security guard, Michael Hopkinson, 45, of Coverden, East Bank Demerara (ECD), has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving.

Twenty small businesses were celebrated for their excellence across various sectors, while 12 entrepreneurs were awarded $1 million each under the Green Tech Fund Grant initiative at the annual Small Business Awards Ceremony, held on Friday evening at the Pegasus Hotel, Kingston, Georgetown.

Residents of Mainstay/Whyaka, Region Two, are now set to become more self-sufficient with the opening of a cassava agro-processing and water purification facility.

-defends appointments Chairperson of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Justice (Ret’d) Claudette Singh, yesterday dismissed allegations by the PNCR of partisan voting and clarified her decision-making process.

Regional Symposium on Crime and Violence The second annual regional Symposium on Crime and Violence got underway yesterday at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre and Barbadian Prime Minister Mia Mottley has called for a review of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for police forces across the region Being held around the theme “Violence as a Public Health Issue – the Crime Challenge”, Mottley implored that her regional counterparts take measures by reviewing and reconstructing the SOP’s of police forces across the region, along with support for victims, urgent engagements to revise legislation  and other measures to aid in the collaborative regional fight against crime.

Twenty-eight-year-old Denzel Webb appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Faith McGusty at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday where he was charged with the offence of causing death by dangerous driving.