Guyana News

Tomorrow’s  AFC Council meeting is expected by members to be fiery as they seek answers mostly from Party Leader Raphael Trotman on why they do not know the arrangements with their governing coalition partner, APNU for contesting upcoming local government elections.

A cane harvester of Fyrish Village, Corentyne died  on Saturday evening and three others sustained injuries after the car they were travelling in slammed into a utility pole then toppled before landing in a nearby drain at Cromarty Village, Corentyne.

Increasing demand from Mexico has driven the significant growth in rice exports to Latin America, according to head of the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) Nizam Hassan, who has also said rice exports to Cuba are expected to increase by 200% this year.

The government on Thursday tabled the Deposit Insurance Bill 2018 which could see coverage for bank account holders up to $2m dollars.

ExxonMobil has assured that the flaring exercise it will begin from this Thursday at its Liza-5 well site offshore is only temporary and is being undertaken for data analysis and testing.

Yesterday’s staging of “UncappeD Marketplace 2”, an agricultural exhibition and food festival, saw a good turnout of agro processors and interested customers.

Almost $1B in contracts for road works, several of which pertain to the rehabilitation of hinterland arteries were recently noted by Cabinet.

The return of  firearms which were collected during the government’s firearm amnesty of 2015 is soon to be realised.

Amidst views that vacancies for judges should be advertised,  former Chancellor of the Judiciary, retired Justice Cecil Kennard while expressing disagreement, says that it should be adopted only if capable persons cannot be found locally.

Workers on Saturday morning averted what could have been a major disaster at the Ministry of Public Health’s Brickdam, Georgetown offices, where a fire erupted.

The Port Mourant doctor who was under probe following a “wind” misdiagnosis, reportedly claimed during the investigation that the patient displayed no abnormal signs and had not complained of experiencing pain.

After spending almost a  week in the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), auto dealer Totaram Jaichand, who was attacked and beaten two Sundays ago by a group of men, has been discharged.

Minister of Public Health, Volda Lawrence says that the Ministry’s Community Health Worker (CHW) programme allows the administration to tap into the human resources from within the respective communities.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain’s interior minister has resigned after Prime Minister Theresa May’s government faced criticism for its treatment of some long-term Caribbean residents who were wrongly labelled illegal immigrants, a government official said.

Police on the East Coast of Demerara are investigating the murder of a Better Hope resident who was shot in his back last night sometime around 11.

A decade after 4.7 acres of land at Liliendaal, East Coast Demerara, was controversially sold to Russian aluminium company Rusal, purportedly for the construction of a vacation home for its president Oleg Deripaska, it remains neglected and there has been no word on plans for its development.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) is reporting an $8 billion increase in revenue collection for the first quarter of 2018, which has been attributed to improvements in the collection of arrears.

Three ranks implicated in the plot to corrupt the most recent sitting of the learner driver theoretical exam have been removed from their posts.

Natural Resources Minister Raphael Trotman yesterday reported that gold declarations for the first quarter of the year stood at 145,000 ounces.

A change of culture rather than a change in policy may be what is first needed to tackle plastic pollution.