News

With the emergence of new towns in far-flung districts, President David Granger yesterday pleaded with the banking sector to provide services to residents of those communities.

Over the last 18 months Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) has invested in excess of $3 billion in improving the infrastructure and other operations needed to provide potable water to Guyanese across the country.

A Moruca, North West District man is now dead after an altercation early yesterday morning.

Abnormal tides and waves have caused flooding and erosion at Almond Beach, North West District, posing a threat to livelihoods and the Regional Democratic Council (RDC) is engaging the authorities to have around 20 residents relocated to higher ground.

Commissioner of Information Charles Ramson SC has filed a lawsuit against the government seeking just over $5.5 million which represents his unpaid gratuity for December as well as payment for his use and occupation of his own East Street property for the last year in light of the government’s failure to provide suitable accommodation for his office.

The Middle Road, La Penitence beautician who was busted in the US state of Georgia in December 2015 has entered a plea deal with the US on the count of importing cocaine into the country.

The State Planning Secretariat recently concluded a sale of land and property at Plantation Ruimveldt and Government holding company NICIL completed the transfer of properties including two to the Assemblies of God Church.

The Alliance for Change (AFC) fully supports government’s position that the lease brokered by People Progressive Party for the rental of Red House was illegal and was justifiably revoked by President David Granger.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – CIA Director John Brennan yesterday offered a stern parting message for Donald Trump days before the Republican U.S.

The University of Guyana (UG) has reached an agreement with short-drop taxi drivers who offer transport from the East Coast Public Road to the Turkeyen Campus that will see only authorized operators being allowed to access the compound.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – China’s courts must firmly resist the western idea of judicial independence and other ideologies which threaten the leadership of the ruling Communist Party, the country’s top judge was reported as saying by state-run Chinese News Service.

A man accused of murdering his two cousins will likely know his fate today, when a jury is expected to deliberate on the case against him.

The Caribbean Examina-tions Council (CXC) yesterday  expressed its condolences to the family and friends of Guyanese, Dr Desmond Roderick Rodwell Broomes, known to many at CXC as Dr Broomes or “Dessie.”

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – Twenty-seven inmates were killed in a Brazilian prison riot that broke out on Saturday, adding to chaos in a penitentiary system in which some 140 inmates have died in gang warfare since the start of the year.

The Guyana Energy Agency (GEA) is inviting bids for the installation of grid-connected solar photovoltaic (PV) systems on 57 government buildings.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The police have now released the identities of five of the six alleged gunmen killed in Goodwill, at the border of St James and Trelawny on Saturday night.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Prime Minister Theresa May will call on Britons to reject the acrimony of the Brexit referendum in a speech this week that some newspapers have billed as setting the stage for a “hard” exit from the European Union.

(Reuters) – The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus said on Saturday it will cease performances after 146 years in business, owing to what it said were declining tickets sales and high operating costs.

Donations toward fundraising for Ephraim Collins, the seven-year-old boy diagnosed with Hydrocephaly, have slowed, but preparations are in place to have these efforts taken internationally.

(Trinidad Guardian) A police investigation has begun into the housing allowance paid to President Anthony Carmona.