Guyana News

“She does really make you feel like you deh back in school.

Former Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding on Friday took regional governments to task for failing to implement decisions necessary for the achievement of a CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME).

Afflicted by an unknown illness, former sports journalist Rene Stoby is now scheduled to meet with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and Muscle Movement Disorder Specialists of the John Hopkins Hospital, in the United States, next month.

Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) investigators recently seized a laptop computer belonging to the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) as part of continuing investigations into properties sold by the National Industrial and Commer-cial Investments Limited (NICIL).

Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday bemoaned government’s sloth in appointing a Board for the Guyana Power and Light Company which has been without one since January of this year.

Guyana’s first Hinterland Green Enterprise Development Centre to be built in the North Rupununi, Region Nine is one step closer to realisation as the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs and the JR Ranch Construction Incorporated yesterday signed a $130 million contract for the institute’s construction.

Roraima Airways has partnered with aerospace and defence company, PAL aerospace to provide surveillance services to the oil and gas sector in Guyana.

Acting Chief Justice Roxane George SC yesterday validated President David Granger’s unilateral appointment of retired judge James Patterson as Guyana Elections Com-mission (GECOM) Chair-man, ruling that he had the discretion to so do.

Another charge of misconduct in public office is to be laid against former Minister Dr. Ashni Singh and former head of NICIL Winston Brassington.

Minister of Public Infrastructure David Patterson yesterday announced that several solar and hydro projects are on track to be completed by the end of 2020 at a total capacity of around 30 megawatts.

Bullying of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) youth by fellow students as well as teachers is a “silent epidemic” in Guyana’s schools, a recent study has found.

Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Guyana Charles Davidson has urged the review of the same sex intimacy laws, which he says are discriminatory.

While steering clear of declaring the government’s position on the rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered (LGBT) persons, Minister of State Joseph Harmon yesterday stressed the administration’s responsibility to ensure that the rights of all citizens are protected in keeping with the constitution.

Two Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) enforcement officers were wounded after they came under gunfire on Thursday night as they were about to conduct an anti-smuggling operation at Bee Hive, East Coast Demerara.

Surinamese national Omar Williams was yesterday sentenced to 12 years behind bars for the unlawful killing of former disc jockey (DJ) Sheldon Cheddie, whom he shot multiple times.

Leon Jaggernaught and Joshua Khan, the operators of the Route 42 minibus that was seen overloaded with school children in a widely-viewed video on Facebook, were yesterday both fined for the offence and others.

Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) Director Dr Justin Ram has suggested that the region’s best brains from governments, private sector, labour and civil society should “perhaps” be locked in a room for two months so they can devise an implementation plan for five major challenges facing the Caribbean Single Market and Economy (CSME).

Three weeks after he was handed a three-year sentence for possession of eight grammes of cannabis for the purpose of trafficking, Carl Mangal was yesterday granted bail by a High Court judge pending an appeal.

Newly-elected toshao Marbell Thomas, 34, one of 10 women who have been elected to head their villages, says she is better prepared to serve her community, Campbelltown, in Region Eight (Potaro-Siparuni), having already served in the position when she was younger.

A former policeman was yesterday charged with breaking into a woman’s house and stealing over $1 million in goods and also later assaulting a police officer.