Guyana News

After several months without a Board of Directors, the APNU+AFC Cabinet on Tuesday approved a new board for the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) with agriculture expert John Dow tipped to be chairman, sources say.

Guyana yesterday signed a historic first loan for US$20m with the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and Finance Minister Winston Jordan played up the country’s prospects in light of the looming oil and gas economy.

The Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) has dispatched a team to investigate the mining pit cave-in at Mowasi Backdam that claimed the lives of two men, Commissioner Newell Dennison said.

Chadiraj Lall, the Enmore man who was stabbed several times about the body on Monday night by a man who reportedly said that he came to kill him, is recovering at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

The proprietor of the Wang Wang supermarket in Belle West, Canal #2, West Bank Demerara, is now hospitalised after being shot when bandits invaded his store on Tuesday night.

Picketing for their outstanding severance pay, former sugar workers at the Rose Hall and Skeldon estates on Monday lamented the current hardships on their families including the inability to educate their children.

The trial of labourer, Quincy Henry, for the attempted murder of another man is set to commence this morning before Justice Brassington Reynolds and a 12-member jury at the High Court in Georgetown.

A Festival City, North Ruimveldt house belonging to an overseas-based Guyanese was gutted by a fire, suspected to be an act of arson, during the wee hours of yesterday.

Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago have discussed the possibility of Guyana shipping and selling  livestock on the Trinidad and Tobago market says the twin island’s Agriculture Minister Clarence Rambharat.  

The cost of travel between Linden and Kwakani has seen a 16.6% reduction since the rehabilitation of the Linden/Ituni/Kwakani road, bringing the current fare down to $2,500.

More than 800 metres of sea defence repairs have been completed on the West Coast of Demerara.

A 47-year-old man was yesterday placed on $75,000 bail, after he denied breaking and entering a Subryanville home.

A 28-year-old woman was yesterday released on $25,000 bail on charges of assault and damage to property.

The Co-operative Republic of Guyana and the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago (hereinafter referred to individually as “the Party” and collectively as “the Parties”); CONSIDERING the commitment of both governments to continue the development of cooperation mechanisms to foster the creation of an environment conducive to energy integration on the basis of the principles of reciprocity, solidarity and respect for sovereignty; RECOGNIZING that the development of the energy sector contributes significantly to the strengthening of economic and social development while improving the quality of life of the citizens of both Parties; The Parties have reached the following understanding: Article 1 Objective This Memorandum of Understanding on Energy Cooperation (hereinafter referred to as MOU) establishes the process through which the Parties agree to work with each other in the development of the energy and energy related sectors of the Parties with the aim of developing and promoting joint projects throughout the hydrocarbon value chain in accordance with the provisions hereof and without prejudice to their respective national legal systems.

An East La Penitence man was today remanded after he was charged with the murder of Roger Allen, the Freeman Street youth who was stabbed during a fight at D’Urban and Chapel streets, Lodge, last Thursday.

Guyana and Trinidad today signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Energy Sector Cooperation with the leaders of both countries, President David Granger and Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago Dr.

Two men were killed after a mining pit caved in at Mowasi Backdam, Konawaruk, Potaro, where the Ministry of Natural Resources says they were engaged in illegal mining on a concession.

Former Chancellor of the Judiciary, retired Justice Cecil Kennard was yesterday sworn in as the sole commissioner on the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the administration and operations of the Georgetown Mayor and City Council (M&CC).

Two women were yesterday remanded to prison after being charged over a plot to traffic almost four pounds of cocaine to Jamaica.

As a protest for immediate works on the access road to Kuru Kuru, on the Soesdkye-Linden Highway, intensified, residents were yesterday told that repairs are slated to be done under the next national budget.