Guyana News

Several animal rights organisations and activists on Friday staged a peaceful protest to raise awareness about animal cruelty in Guyana.

APNU+AFC Members of Parliament (MPs) on Friday called for a thorough investigation of the Region Nine Regional Executive Officer Karl Singh’s shooting of a woman.

With rain continuing to fall in the Upper Mazaruni, Region Seven, one of the biggest challenges residents in some communities are facing is the shortage of basic supplies.

The National Executive Council (NEC) of the Alliance for Change (AFC) will meet next month to finalise arrangements for the holding of the party’s National Conference.

A fire of unknown origin on Thursday destroyed an apartment at the BK Quarries Inc at Mazaruni River, leaving a man with first and second degree burns.

Two taxi drivers, who the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) say were busted with almost 75 pounds of ganja during an interception along the Lusignan Prison Road, were on Friday charged and remanded to prison.

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) and the Guyana Postal and Telecommunications Workers Union (GPTWU) on Friday signed an agreement for the increase in wages and salaries of workers.

The Buck Hall trail, in Region Seven, has become almost impassible, according to road users, who say economic activity in several mining communities have been disrupted as a result.

CGX Energy has announced that the construction of its wharf platform for the Berbice Deep Water Port (BDWP) is scheduled to commence in September and operationalisation of the offshore oil and gas support shore base is set for mid-2022.

Ten teachers from the David Rose Special School are to benefit from sponsored Computer Science scholarships from Global Technology to advance the teaching offered at the school while the company is also upgrading the school’s IT capability.

STEMGuyana, which celebrates five years since being established by a US-based Guyanese family, has made a tremendous contribution to youth through its technology education programme, inclusive of robotics, coding and aiding their development in soft skills.

While it says it is not calling for the indiscriminate smoking of marijuana to be legalised, the Inter-Religious Organization of Guyana (IROG) has urged government to consider comprehensive law reform to recognise and respect their religious rights.

A man and a woman are now on bail after being jointly charged with the unlawful possession of a shotgun.

A labourer was on Friday charged with manslaughter. Donald Hudson, 54, of Grant Enterprise, Lower Pomeroon River, appeared via Zoom before Magistrate Esther Sam at the Anna Regina Magistrate’s Court.

The Health Ministry on Friday confirmed 43 new infections from the most recent COVID-19 test results.

A family of three lost their Calcutta, Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara home on Thursday, after a child playing with matches set fire to it.

Former Police Corporal Derwin Eastman has been committed to stand trial for the murder of businessman Godfrey Scipio, while his co-accused, former police constable Jemeson Williams, has been freed of the charge.

ARRIVAL STATEMENT CARICOM ELECTION OBSERVATION MISSION TO THE GENERAL ELECTIONS OF SAINT LUCIA   In a letter dated 7 July 2021, the Honourable Allen M.

Amid criticisms that the garb of Guyana’s representatives at the Tokyo Olympics is overpoweringly red, the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport today said it had nothing to do with the selection.

One week after releasing conflicting statements, the members of the Central Executive Committee (CEC) of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) yesterday met and deliberated on not one but two motions brought against party leader David Granger.