Guyana News

APNU Councillor Ubraj Narine is the new Mayor of Georgetown. Narine, who won Constituency One (Kingston East and West, Thomas Lands, Nonpareil Park, Cummingsburg, Alberttown and Queenstown) at the November 12th local polls, was elected when the new councillors of the municipality met today. 

Public Health Minister and People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) Chairperson Volda Lawrence is facing scrutiny over a suggestion that party officials elected to public offices should show preference to fellow party members in hiring and the award of contracts.

The Berbice Bridge Company Incorporated (BBCI) has mounted a legal challenge to government’s takeover of the operations of the bridge and the authority of the Public Infrastructure Minister David Patterson to prevent it from instituting increases.

A state-of-the-art mega-farm in the intermediate Savannahs in Region 10 is expected to begin early next year as a Brazilian investment group has signalled their intentions to start a huge three-phase project.

Dr Jan Mangal, former petroleum advisor to President David Granger, has said he advised government against investing in the development of the now shelved onshore oil and gas supply facility at Crab Island, in Region Six, as the proposal did not go through the due diligence needed for the investment, which would have required billions of taxpayers’ dollars.

Four persons who are accused of murdering a Tain mother in February, last year, in her home, were yesterday committed to stand trial in the High Court in Berbice.

The three men who police say were arrested in Georgetown on Monday with two unlicensed pistols and 19 live rounds were yesterday charged and remanded.

The Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) will be collaborating with colleagues overseas regarding a money-laundering probe involving Nalinie Singh, the daughter of former Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) General Manager Jagnarine Singh.

After a preliminary inquiry before Magistrate Charlyn Artiga, the four men who were charged for the 2016 Black Bush triple murder were yesterday committed to stand trial in the High Court in Berbice.

Republic Bank’s planned acquisition of Scotiabank’s operations in Guyana and eight Caribbean countries is not on the agenda of the upcoming special meeting of the Caribbean Community Heads of Government on the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) but Foreign Affairs Minister Carl Greenidge expects that it will be raised in caucus.

A 52-year-old Kildonan man was yesterday committed to stand trial in the High Court in Berbice for the murder of his 82-year-old father.

Weeks after a visiting United States-based Guyanese family was robbed during a restaurant stop in Alberttown, Georgetown, police are still to arrest a suspect.

A 23-year-old Baramita woman has been arrested after her infant son was found by ranks in front of the Baramita Police Station.

A sum of $8.9 billion will be allocated in 2019 to improve the energy sector and GPL will receive $3.6 billion, Finance Minister Winston Jordan said in his national budget presentation on Monday.

The Ministry of Public Security (MoPS)  in a release yesterday said that  the 2 am closing time for night clubs and other places of entertainment will continue to be enforced.

The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) is on track to achieving its production target for the second crop this year and possibly exceeding it, according to its Corporate Communications Manager Audreyanna Thomas.

The Doobay Medical Centre will today begin facilitating a year-long study to identify and help manage risk factors for several chronic non-communicable diseases among Guyanese.

After three weeks of deliberations, the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the operations of City Hall is set to submit its report to the Local Government Commission (LGC) today.

The Ministry of Public Infrastructure says that a section of the East Coast Demerara Public Road will be temporarily closed, on Saturday December 1, 2018 at approximately 8:00 am, and will be reopened on Sunday, December 2, 2018 at 11 pm.

The Berbice Bridge Company Incorporated says it yesterday served Notice on Minister of Public Infrastructure, David Patterson, and the Attorney General that  legal proceedings have commenced in the High Court of the Supreme Court of Judicature over the government’s takeover of the bridge in a dispute about tolls.