Guyana News

A five-member team from Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) is in the Netherlands undergoing three weeks of well regeneration training.

Three former policemen  were on Monday sentenced to one year imprisonment and fined $25,000 each at the Whim Magistrate’s Court, after they were found guilty of accepting a $6M bribe in September, 2015.

The Vergenoegen Secondary School is now benefiting from a $14M annex as well as a $4M canteen, guard hut and landfilled compound, according to the Department of Public Information (DPI).

On its first solo outing at the Local Government Elections, the Alliance for Change (AFC)  is set to battle it out with its coalition partner, APNU in Linden.

The Linden Fund Trust (LFT)/Linden Community Forum has invited the parties contesting in the region at the November 12 local government elections – the AFC, APNU, PPP/C and the URP to participate in two Town Meetings/Debates.

Students in the East Canje, Berbice area will now get to school free of cost as the government  along with Princess Ramada Hotel commissioned its 29th David ‘G’ School Bus on Monday at the Canje Secondary School.

As part of efforts to strengthen its regulatory oversight role regarding the use of high risk drugs in Guyana, the Government Analyst–Food and Drug Department (GA-FDD) recently participated in a workshop on the registration process associated with biologics and biosimilar-type drugs.

Robert Forrester, whose photograph was placed in an advertisement over the weekend advising the public that he was not authorised to transact business on behalf of the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CHPA), is not an agent of the CHPA says Chief Executive Officer Lelon Saul.

Michael Smith, the accused in a burglary, was yesterday remanded to prison after a court heard that he was seen leaving with the stolen goods, which were later found in his house.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said he will seek to limit the right of citizenship for certain children born in the United States in a new bid to dramatically reshape immigration policies that was likely to spark a congressional battle.

All the results of the November 12th local government elections should be available by the end of the following day, according to Chief Election Officer (CEO) Keith Lowenfield, who yesterday assured that preparations for voting by both the disciplined services and civilians are on track.

Amid growing questions, about the state of President David Granger’s health, the Ministry of the Presidency (MotP) today issued a release in which the President is reported as saying that he had been experiencing “symptoms” following a check-up in Trinidad in May and was proceeding to Cuba to have the relevant investigation done.

Following an unsuccessful challenge to the legality of the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the operations of City Hall, Town Clerk Royston King yesterday began facing questions and submitted evidence to support the legality of his actions when he leased the Sussex Street wharf claimed by NICIL to a shipping company.  

A Clonbrook, East Coast Demerara (ECD) woman is now dead after the car in which she was travelling crashed into utility poles along the Bee Hive Public Road yesterday afternoon.

Mark Louchee, the suspect in the 15-year-old murder of Collis De Abreu, who was shot and killed outside of the Blue Iguana nightclub, was yesterday committed to stand trial.

A young biker was yesterday charged with causing the death of a pedestrian in a collision at Bagotstown.

The Ministry of Education yesterday commissioned two new IT laboratories at the Eccles and Tucville Primary Schools.

The People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) over the weekend attracted hundreds at public meetings held at Corriverton and Rose Hall Town, Corentyne, where Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo continued to use the ongoing campaign for local government elections to criticise the APNU+AFC’s governance of the country.

A man was charged yesterday with the rape of a girl below the age of 16.

The mother of Shaquille Grant, the 17-year-old who was shot and killed by police in 2012, has sued the state for damages for what she says is the wrongful killing of her son.