Guyana News

The Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) on Friday renew its call for an engagement with President Irfaan Ali on a range of issues, including the mandatory vaccination policy for teachers and outstanding financial matters.

With the life of the Police Service Commission (PSC) having expired, Attorney General (AG) Anil Nandlall SC has moved to strike out the court action initiated by the body to challenge President Irfaan Ali’s suspension of its members and complete a promotions process.

  By Janette Bulkan On your way to or from Guyana’s international airport at Timehri you travel on the East Bank Demerara road.

Bombarded with complaints of poor service offered by his company, CEO of Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GTT) Damien Blackburn at a meeting on Friday promised residents of Bartica the delivery of services will be significantly improved within the next six months.

Colin Smith, the longstanding Editor of the Catholic Standard newspaper, passed away yesterday after being hospitalised for a brief period.

The Ministry of Health yesterday confirmed the deaths of four more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).

Region Six’s top performing students at this year’s National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA), are all aspiring to great heights. 

CV Nunes Primary, located at Anna Regina, managed to outshine the rest of the primary schools in Region Two at this year’s National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) as four of its students were among the top ten performers for the region.

A visually-impaired Corriverton Primary School girl secured a spot at one of the nation’s top secondary schools at the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) 2021.

Results from last year’s Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) examinations were rectified in the favour of students in over 3,000 cases, Minister of Education Priya Manickchand said on Thursday.

Twenty-three of thirty-six (36) Guyanese companies that participated in this year’s edition of the Awards were declared winners at the Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) third National Quality Awards (NQA) Ceremony hosted at Parc Rayne, Lot 1 Rahaman’s Park.

Three persons who are accused of trafficking 6.232 kilogrammes of cocaine in frozen curry and Pepperpot were on Friday charged and remanded.

The Ministry of Health today said that as of October 15, 2021, four more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

Another 1,000 Guyanese are now landowners, as the Ministry of Housing and Water – Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) returned for its second allocation exercise on the East Bank of Demerara yesterday.

A 21-year-old businessman was fatally stabbed during a robbery yesterday afternoon in his family’s electronics store at Strathspey, East Coast Demerara (ECD) and the police have since arrested the prime suspect, who they say confessed to the crime.

Retired Assistant Commissioner of Police and former Chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC), Paul Slowe was yesterday released on bail after being formally faced with a charge of conspiracy to defraud the State and three counts of sexual assault.

Contracts worth a total of $1.4 billion were signed yesterday for critical road construction and rehabilitation works in regions Four, Six and Seven, including the Moleson Creek to El Dorado, Corentyne road that will be vital for the construction of the Corentyne River Bridge.

A 29-year-old man died after suffering severe lacerations about his body yesterday afternoon after he reportedly walked into a running aircraft propeller at the Kamarang Airstrip, Region Seven.

Former Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Sergeant Keyon King has once again pleaded guilty to armed robbery charges stemming from August’s $58 million Wallison Enterprise gold heist at Kitty and he blamed pressures to provide for his family for driving him to participate in the crimes.

An aspiring teacher Nirvana Wimal, of Success Elementary, is this year’s top student at the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA).