Guyana News

(ICC) West Indies all-rounder Marlon Samuels has been banned from bowling in international cricket for 12 months following an independent assessment of his action, which took place at the ICC’s accredited testing centre in Brisbane earlier this month.

Government is being urged to “proceed with haste” to sell the Marriott Hotel in light of uncertainty about the financial viability of its operations and rising costs that could take the final price tag for the project to at least US$98 million.

Photos by Joanna Dhanraj   Golden Grove or Grove, as most persons call it, on the East Bank Demerara is said to be one of the most developed villages in Guyana.

As calls continue to be made for marijuana use to be decriminalized, President David Granger says government will contradict itself if it concedes to this given that it has already taken a position on smoking in public places and will on Thursday be tabling legislation in this regard.

Government’s holding company NICIL acted as an agent for the sale of Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) properties, and in 2010 sold properties to then Prime Minister Sam Hinds and then Housing Minister Irfaan Ali, among others, and in some cases, this was without

President David Granger say that he sees no “justification or need” to rescind the controversial Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) inked by government with Fedders Lloyd for the specialty hospital project.

Thirty-two Rupununi women have successfully completed a ‘Self-Reliance and Success in Business’ workshop held at the Indigenous Peoples Conference Hall in Lethem, Region Nine, under the auspices of the Office of the First Lady.

The 2016 National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) examinations will be written on April 27 and April 28, a month after the traditional time for the annual sitting.

The Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc (BCGI) on Friday officially commissioned two wells in the Region Ten communities of Hururu and Bamboo Landing.

Almost two months after her only child was discovered dead in his Good Hope, East Coast Demerara (ECD) home, Bibi Shaliza Hamid is hoping that the perpetrator/s will be apprehended soon.

President David Granger yesterday distributed 21 bicycles to children enrolled in the Sophia Literacy Programme at Congress Place, to assist them with transportation to school and also announced that the centre will receive a subvention to ensure its survival.

Climate change, one of the most pervasive environmental problems that has confronted human-kind, increases children’s vulnerability to hunger, malnutrition, water-borne diseases and other illnesses and threaten their basic rights.

Government is not expecting an answer to a request for a juridical settlement of the ongoing border controversy with Venezuela in the short term, according to President David Granger, who nonetheless is confident that United Nations (UN) Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is actively looking at the matter.

Members of the Disciplined Forces, along with all other categories of public servants, can look forward to some sort of bonus from government before the year ends, President David Granger said on Friday last.

A Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara man lost his life last evening after he crashed into a tree around Letter ‘T’ Estate, Mahaica-Berbice.

HOBART, Australia, CMC – Cricket Australia chief executive, James Sutherland, says he hopes West Indies cricket authorities “take on board” the recommendations of CARICOM’s Governance Review Panel.

PARIS, (Reuters) – French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius presented a landmark global climate accord on Saturday, a “historic” measure for transforming the world’s fossil fuel-driven economy within decades and turning the tide on global warming.

The disposal of state-owned properties by the National Industrial & Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL) to third parties by way of sale or otherwise did not appear to have a legal basis, according to the forensic audit of the government holding company.

Justice Navindra Singh yesterday ruled that the private criminal charge against former president Bharrat Jagdeo, filed in April this year by attorney Christopher Ram, did not disclose an offence and therefore the magistrate who heard the matter had no jurisdiction.

While maintaining renewed claims to the New River Triangle area, Suriname’s President Desi Bouterse says he wants dialogue with President David Granger on the issue, Surinamese newspaper de Ware Tijd has reported.