Guyana News

The grotesque defiling of Parliament yesterday by APNU MPs which included the seizing of the Speaker’s Mace must be condemned in the strongest possible terms.

Residents of Meten-Meer-Zorg, West Coast Demerara yesterday complained of flood woes after persistent rain and were ruing their losses and the task of cleaning up.

In a bid to double brackish water shrimp production, the government has already constructed 63 of 74 aquaculture ponds.

A 56-year-old woman is in fear for her life as her son who has threatened her life on multiple occasions, has  escaped from the psychiatric ward where he had been sent.

One new COVID-19 death was reported yesterday, increasing the country’s fatalities to 1,051.

After attempting to seize the ceremonial Mace in its failed bid to derail the passage of the Natural Resource Fund Bill No.

Guyana’s top court, the CCJ yesterday explained how the GGMC had breached the law in 2013 in awarding a road contract to Chunilall Baboolall.

The completion of the Eccles to Mandela Avenue alternative road link has been further delayed due to ongoing inclement weather.

Tenders were on Tuesday opened at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board for the supply of computers and accessories to the Ministry of Health along with the provision of air transport services to indigenous communities in various regions.

The Minister of Health yesterday  urged persons not to be complacent as it relates to the spread of the novel coronavirus in Guyana.

Minister of Health, Dr. Frank Anthony, on Tuesday stated that Guyana’s recovery rate from the novel coronavirus is 95%, or 37,366 of the total number of 39,151 persons who tested positive for the virus.

Speaker of the National Assembly Manzoor Nadir was this evening forced to suspend the second reading of the controversial Natural Resources Fund (NRF) bill after 18 members of the Opposition got out of their seats and onto the main floor to drown out Senior Minister with the responsibility for Finance Dr Ashni Singh as he was on the floor.

The Guyana Bar Association has rebuked Attorney General Anil Nandlall SC for stating in parliament today that Guyanese legal practitioners do not have the capacity to handle some matters which he described as “technical legal documents” and “joint venture agreements”.

The Private Sector Commission (PSC) today said that while it believes that wider consultation should have been pursued it supports the tabling and passage of the Natural Resource Fund legislation which is scheduled to come up for approval in parliament this afternoon.

On 4 June 2021, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) dismissed an appeal against a decision of the Court of Appeal of Guyana in the consolidated matter of Guyana Geology and Mines Commission v BK International and Chunilall Baboolall; and Chunilall Baboolall v BK International and Guyana Geology and Mines Commission [2021] CCJ 13 AJ (GY).

The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) today said that more time should be given to the public to provide input on the Natural Resource Fund Bill which the government appears intent on passing today in Parliament despite severe criticisms.

President Irfaan Ali yesterday mounted an impassioned defence of the bill for the governing of oil money which the government apparently intends to pass today using its slim majority but he still did not explain who was selecting members of the Board of Directors, a major concern of critics of the legislation along with the proposed rate of extraction of monies.

New PNCR Leader Aubrey Norton yesterday took President Irfaan Ali to task over the Natural Resource Fund Bill promulgated by the government, charging that the Minister of Finance has been given too much authority and that the committee for determining the economically sustainable amount for withdrawal from the fund had been discarded.

A New and United Guyana (ANUG) yesterday launched a blistering attack on the PPP/C government, accusing it of using the “absolute power” under the current constitutional system to consolidate its control and dispensing with necessary systemic safeguards.

Investigators probing the murder of martial arts instructor and bodyguard Garfield Newton have issued a wanted bulletin for an 18-year-old West Ruimveldt resident.