Shamar Meusa

The fourth annual Guyana Animation Network (GAN) Summer Camp was officially launched on Friday and is set to commence tomorrow.

The Department of Tourism, within the Ministry of Business, yesterday hosted its first ever Regional Tourism Review Session, where representatives of groups within the respective regions were able to present and speak on what can be done to boost tourist in their areas.

With the highest attainable score for the 2019 National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) being 536 marks, this year’s two top students hail from public schools and both grabbed 532 marks, earning themselves a place at Queen’s College.

The Mayor and City Council was on Monday briefed on an incident involving a city food shop that was ordered to undergo cleaning, after an inspection by the Food and Hygiene Department revealed substandard conditions.

The Mayor and City Councillors yesterday voted to have current Chief Engineer, Colvern Venture’s vacation leave postponed until the handover of the Engineer’s Department is complete and the Mayor receives responses to letters written to Venture months ago.

The Centre for Excellence in Information Technology (CEIT), which will facilitate advanced level classroom training for public sector Information and communications technology (ICT) professionals, was yesterday commissioned at the University of Guyana’s Turkeyen Campus.

The wife of one of the two men who were on Tuesday electrocuted while installing security cameras in the Guyana National Stadium compound, said that her husband was not outfitted in safety gear.

Relatives are seeking answers in relation to a Berbice woman and her baby, who died within a day of each other, following the infant’s delivery at the New Amsterdam Public Hospital.

Family members of Special Lance Corporal Don Carlos Alleyne, who succumbed to injuries at a city hospital last Saturday, are calling for answers as to what exactly transpired in the lead up to his death.

A Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo youth succumbed on Thursday morning to injuries he sustained  in an early morning vehicular accident.

Residents of Jonestown, Mahaica, are concerned about the length of time that contractors are taking to construct a bridge in the community, and are calling on authorities to provide clarity on the situation.

The Guyana Youth Corps (GYC), which is expected to expand education and employment opportunities for young people, was yesterday officially relaunched at the Kuru Kuru Training Centre, at Soesdyke, Linden Highway.

Hundreds of persons yesterday  turned up at the Square of the Revolution, to take part in the ‘Government comes to you” initiative.

Nestled within the mangroves on the coast of Vreed-en-Hoop, residents of the area infamously known as Plastic City, even after years of being promised a better life, still remain hopeful for same for themselves and their children.

A year and a half after being told they would be given land and proper homes, residents of the Lombard and Broad streets, Charlestown squatting area are still waiting for the promise to come to fruition.

Coconut prices have increased significantly over the last year but the exact reason for the bump is not clear though some vendors blame the rise in fuel prices in 2018 while others cite a hike in exports.

Christmas time in Guyana is like no other; this is the time of year when Guyanese make the most purchases.

When residents of Georgetown’s Con-stituency 10 (Albouystown-Charlestown) vote on Monday, they will have three choices for their direct council representative in the persons of Heston Bostwick, of APNU, Brittany Eversley of the AFC and Ron Amos of the PPP/C.

Saying that communities would not benefit from importing the political conflict between APNU and the PPP/C, attorney Mayo Robertson is contesting as an independent candidate in Georgetown’s Constituency Nine, which comprises Lodge North to Meadowbrook Gardens, at  Monday’s local government polls.

Seeking re-election as the representative of Constituency 5 on Georgetown’s City Council, Deputy Mayor Akeem Peter says his first priority if voted back in would be completing the handover of sections still to be served by the city council so that they could be developed.