Guyana News

The hearing of the March 2020 elections fraud trial was yesterday postponed as presiding Magistrate Leron Daly was ill, court officials informed this newspaper.

Justice Winston Anderson has been appointed to act as President of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) by the Prime Minister of Grenada, Dickon Mitchell, the current Chair-man of the Conference of Heads of Government of CARICOM. 

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Petro-bras as well as Chinese oil firms CNOOC and Petrochina were the winners of a Wednesday oil auction that is expected to bring record revenue for Brazil’s Pre-Sal Petroleo (PPSA).

The government is currently constructing 40 turn-key houses at 5 Miles Housing Scheme Phase II in Region Seven and these are expected to be completed by the end of September.

Police from Regional Division #6 found 559 grams of suspected cannabis at an abandoned lot on Sunday during a ‘Cordon and Search’ operation at New Street, Cumberland, East Canje, Berbice.

By Dr. Bertrand Ramcharan Barrister-at-Law (Lincoln’s Inn); Attorney-at-Law, Guyana. Seventh Chancellor of the University of Guyana At the heart of the UN’s Agenda 2030 lies Sustainable Development Goal 16, which aims for a ‘just, equitable, tolerant, open and socially inclusive world in which the needs of the most vulnerable are met’.

Work has begun on providing electricity for the first time to the residents of New Forest, through the Guyana Power and Light, according to a release from the Ministry of Finance.

The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) today apologized to customers in Bartica, Region Seven for the recent service interruptions.

The Guyana Stock Exchange (GSE) on Saturday announced the suspension of trading in Banks DIH Limited shares.

GuySuCo’s first crop for this year has been the lowest ever recorded but with a plan for maximising mechanisation and using technology, newly appointed Chief Executive Officer Paul Cheong said that it will reach this year’s 100,000 tonnes target.

A disabled teenage boy perished in a fire at Imbaimadai Village, Region Seven (Cuyuni- Mazaruni), last Friday.

Police are investigating the shooting of a 70-year-old electrician of Lot 47 Norton Street, Lodge, which occurred at about 21:15 hrs on Saturday.

A mobile anti-crime patrol from the Beterverwagting (BV) Police Station intercepted a vehicle with five occupants on Saturday night and found an unlicensed firearm and two live rounds of ammunition.

Upper Corentyne farmers are enthusiastic about the clearing of canals and other major infrastructure, which will also see the building of a drainage system similar to the one at Hope, East Coast Demerara.

Senior Minister in the Office of the President with Responsibility for Finance and the Public Service Ashni Singh has presented two amendatory loan agreements to Parliament, a Ministry of Finance release stated.

Smile Train Guyana, in collaboration with Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), last week hosted an unprecedented intensive Cleft Palate Speech Therapy Training programme for local speech therapists and rehabilitation assistants in Guyana, a release from the GPH stated.

Road users along the East Coast Demerara corridor are advised that emergency work is underway on the bridge at Coldingen (Railway Embankment) owing to issues with its structural capacity to facilitate traffic.

With littering and garbage disposal still a major issue, especially in Georgetown, the Private Sector Commission (PSC) is calling for more enforcement of penalties to help curb the social problem countrywide.

A Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) release last week announced the successful surgical treatment and discharge of a six-year-old girl who sustained a critical gunshot wound to her head on June 16.