Guyana News

The government is continuing with its drive to make post-secondary education and skills training available across Guyana’s rural and hinterland regions and this time it has focussed its attention on Yakusari, Black Bush Polder, Berbice, where more than 20 women, ages 16 to 38, are on a journey to becoming certified in Information Technology (IT).

Through the government’s Core Home Support Initiative, six families along the East Coast of Demerara had their dreams of home ownership come true.

James Lord, a 35-year-old labourer who allegedly stabbed his reputed wife to death on Sunday at Free and Easy, West Bank Demerara, is in police custody pending charges.

The Swan Health Centre, inaugurated on September 9, 2024 along the Linden-Soesdyke Highway, has been surrounded by confusion regarding its construction costs.

A Venezuelan woman, Katiuska DeJesus Carias, appeared yesterday before Magistrate Fabayo Azore at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court, where she faced deportation proceedings.

Yesterday, the Attorney General’s Chambers & Ministry of Legal Affairs and the Deeds & Commercial Registries Authority (DCRA) began a three-day Public Outreach in Region Nine (Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo) beginning at Lethem and continuing at several outlying communities.

President Irfaan Ali on Thursday attended a reception to commemorate the 214th anniversary of Mexico’s Declaration of Independence at the Marriott Hotel in Georgetown.

Former US President Donald Trump infringed copyrights by using Eddy Grant’s iconic “Electric Avenue” in a 2020 campaign video without permission, a federal judge ruled today, rejecting Trump’s argument that he made legal fair use of the song.  This was reported by Billboard.com

The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) today said that it has started replacing transmission mains along the Avenue of the Republic and High Street.

(Reuters) – Tropical Storm Gordon has formed near the Cape Verde islands, the U.S.

Senior Superintendent, Krishnadat Ramana has been appointed as the new police commander of Region 1 (Barima-Waini), and this became effective on Tuesday.

-police were responsible for list with questionable bidder SOCU has acquired documents relating to procurement for the Guyana Police Force (GPF) from the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) as it continues its investigation of financial impropriety claims against Deputy Police Commissioner Calvin Brutus.

-health sector programme manager Lifestyle diseases account for around 76% of deaths in Caricom.

Following the recent meeting with Senior Minister in the Office of the President with Responsibility for Finance and Public Service, Dr Ashni Singh, and US Exim Bank officials in Washington, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo says that the bank’s board is likely to discuss the US$660 million funding for the Gas-to-Energy (GtE) project at an October meeting.

Following an afternoon consultation with the Ministry of Public Works, sand truck owners, who normally park at the Ruimveldt reserves, have agreed to relocate their trucks.

The Ministry of Housing and Water – Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) yesterday warned about the purchase of land at Amelia’s Ward/Fitz Hope, Phase 4, Linden outside of its official processes.

-commander denies claim A Corentyne ten-day worker says she was strip-searched at the Springlands Police Station after being arrested on the accusation that he had been overpaid.

The Guyana Post Office Corporation (GPOC) yesterday alerted the public to fake Guyana stamps in circulation.

Beginning today, workers under the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development’s Community Infrastructure Improvement Programme (CIIP) will begin with the clearing of clogged drains and overgrown bushes in the vicinity of Garnett and De Abreu streets.

Following media reports of itel Guyana’s plan to cease operations locally, affecting more than 400 hundred workers, the Ministry of Labour has engaged the Business Process Outsourcing company on workers’ severance pay.