Residents of several Deep South Rupununi, Region Nine villages yesterday staged a protest at Lethem after boycotting the Guyana Geology and Mines Commis-sion (GGMC) land lottery and vowed to move to the courts to block the allocations.
The Grace Kennedy Group is looking to further expand into Guyana’s financial services sector with plans to establish mobile money services, a small business loan agency, a bank and insurance services.
The Chinese logging company Bai Shan Lin Forest Development Inc has been accused of carrying out unlawful works at Moblissa, Linden, and refusing to sign a Cease Work Order (CWO) served on it by the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC).
AFC Chairman Nigel Hughes returned home last weekend after recently undergoing angioplasty and though still in recovery he has already committed himself to pursuing a 10-point “2020 Plan” for Guyana’s education system and its youth.
A resident of the Amerindian reservation community of Capoey, on the Essequibo is Guyana’s latest maternal death and her family is seeking answers from the Suddie Hospital.
Rupununi gold miners, at the centre of controversy over illegal operations at Marudi, will have to wait a bit longer on a mining parcels allocation lottery, even as negotiations continue between the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission and the group.
Some of the miners being evicted from Marudi Mountain, in Region Nine, have payment orders for selling raw gold to the Guyana Gold Board, challenging a claim by the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) that none of them had declared a single gramme of gold and that there were no records of production.
Guyana Telephone and Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) subscribers can now send and receive cash and pay bills from their mobile handsets with the launch of the company’s ‘Mobile Money’ service and new CEO Radha Krishna Sharma said last evening that it will revolutionise financial transactions in Guyana.
While he decried conditions at the New Amsterdam Hospital, Health Minister Dr Bheri Ramsaran yesterday rejected claims by her family that a woman undergoing surgery on January 19th died as a result of a power failure.
The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) will soon be launching a “mobile money” service, which will allow its customers to use their phones for a wide range of financial services, including paying bills and transferring cash.
Preparatory ground work for the multimillion dollar specialty hospital at Turkeyen, East Coast Demerara appeared stalled up to yesterday even as Health Minister Dr Bheri Ramsaran maintained that the project was a “living one” and diverted questions about the status of the Indian line of credit for it to the Finance Ministry.
A fourth form student of the Brickdam Secondary School was yesterday morning violently attacked in the Stabroek Market area by a mentally-ill man, who was later mercilessly beaten by public-spirited persons.
A 16-year-old miner was murdered in the Cuyuni Backdam early Saturday morning and his parents believe that his death is linked to his attempts to uplift wages due to him from his employer.
-two lorry drivers arrested Shortly after delivering a baby yesterday morning, prominent East Coast Demerara midwife Vivienne Abrams was fatally struck down by a truck on the Strathspey Railway Embankment Road as she was riding to Buxton to continue her labour of love.
Government yesterday said that the controversial contract to design and equip the specialty hospital at Turkeyen on the East Coast of Demerara has already been signed with Surendra Engineering and the promised review of the award process has been completed.
Top Region Eight officials say they are willing to hold talks with principal of the Mahdia Secondary School, Vanessa Wilson-Johnson who is aggrieved at the condition of her designated living quarters.
Vanessa Wilson-Johnson, the head teacher of the Mahdia Secondary School, is pleading for renovations to the “unlivable” quarters she was assigned to stay at for the duration of her contract.
-rejected bidder awaiting results of gov’t review Even as Indian firm, Fedders-Lloyd, awaits the outcome of government’s review of the award of the specialty hospital contract, the Alliance For Change (AFC) is preparing to raise questions with subject minister Dr.
-after West Dem Hospital maternal death While an autopsy today will determine the cause of death of Tushana Cameron, who died after delivering at the West Demerara Regional Hospital (WDRH) on Wednesday, her parents said they will be meeting the Chief Medical Officer Shamdeo Persaud to discuss assistance for her funeral and her newborn baby girl.
-Private Sector Commission writes President The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) has recommended that the Guyana government follow sister CARICOM countries in reaching an agreement with publishers to have textbooks at a reduced cost as the organization will not support the acquisition of pirated material.
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