Guyana News

The Opposition APNU+AFC  considers as a significant reaffirmation of workers’ rights, the ruling on Friday by High Court Judge Sandil Kissoon that the Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) led strike was legal.

Police in Berbice yesterday nabbed a now 63-year-old logger who was wanted in connection with the murder of another in Baracara during 2013. 

By Mia Anthony The recent deaths of children in Berbice have brought back harrowing memories for a West Demerara family whose five-year-old daughter died last September Umawattie Gonace, mother of five-year old, Jai-devi Gurdyal told the Sunday Stabroek  that her daughter’s case is now at a standstill.

Former Auditor General Anand Goolsarran is standing by his assessment that the report by VHE Consulting on US$7.4b in expenses by Exxon and its partners is deficient.

The body of a miner, Exley Boyal, a 40-year-old from Batavia Village, Cuyuni River, was found at about 5.30 pm on Friday floating in the Essequibo River.

A People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) Regional Councillor and party activist on Wakenaam Island, Region Three, Sadiq Ahmad, has been recorded threatening to remove recipients from the April Cash Grant list if they did not support the PPP/C’s hotdog sale.

While the Attorney-General is seeking to bring all civic and political factions together in a Consti-tutional Reform Commit-tee, other elements in the State apparatus are busy driving them apart, according to the Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA). 

The Central Housing and Planning Authority will be conducting a Pile Driving exercise which will affect electricity supply for customers in the areas of Agricola to Nandy Park.

The PPC recently convened a meeting with the Ministry of Finance designed to enhance public procurement efficiency and it is aiming for access to contract awards.

Seventeen ranks of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) have commenced the Grade Three Medical Assistants Course.

A review by Christopher Ram Introduction Coming out from seclusion roughly 3 1/2 years after the end of his prime ministership of the APNU+AFC Coalition Govern-ment 2015 – 2020, long-serving politician and attorney-at-law Moses Nagamootoo has published his autobiographical account of that period.

The Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) held its first auto expo loan event at the Giftland Mall parking lot yesterday which saw the presence of many auto sales dealers and patrons.

Avinash Kuttai, a 37-year-old construction worker of School Road, Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara, was charged yesterday with possession of narcotics and sentenced to community service.

The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) today said that no member of staff from the Campbellville Health Centre experienced any adverse effects yesterday as a result of a syringe in a water dispenser bottle in the staff lunchroom.

-says strike legal and justified, gov’t to appeal By Abigail Headley In a comprehensive win for the GTU, Justice Sandil Kissoon yesterday ruled that the strike launched by the union for collective bargaining was legal and justified and therefore deductions cannot be made by the state from the salaries of striking teachers.

-injection triggered crisis A Corentyne father is pleading for answers after his daughter passed away at the New Amsterdan Public Hospital on Tuesday.

The Guyana Government says that Justice Sandil Kissoon’s ruling yesterday declaring the recent teachers strike as legal and preserving their pay overturns a salutary principle that guides industrial relations.

By Shuntel Glasgow A Bare Root family is mourning the loss of their son after he complained of dizziness, diarrhoea and vomiting.

A  crash last night along the Williamsburg Public Road has left two motorcyclists dead and a pillion rider critically injured with a fractured skull.

-likely struck by falling rocks The Police say they are investigating a mining site incident which occurred at about 23.57 hours on Thursday at a mining site located at Marudi Backdam, Deep South, Rupununi that resulted in the death of Peter Smith, a 55-year-old farmer of Brazil and Aishalton Village.