Guyana News

Minister of Natural Resources, Raphael Trotman says that a South African company will be visiting next week to conduct a feasibility study on a gold refinery and the Government of Guyana is “strongly” considering the possibility.

Following an allegation against a sponsor, Linden Mayor Waneka Arrindell yesterday announced that the Miss Linden Pageant, a major feature of the Linden Town Day celebrations, has been called off.

The Guyana Relief Council (GRC) has criticised Banks DIH over the recent statements made by Mar-keting Manager George McDonald about the beverage giant’s interest in acquiring the land being occupied by the charity near Thirst Park.

The Department of Youth is once again inviting young people between 14 and 35 years to apply for funding to develop solutions to issues in their communities using Science, Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Anthropology, Archaeology, Architecture, Arts, Mathematics and Spirituality (STEAMS) under its $70 million seed capital Youth Innovation Project of Guyana 2018.

Scotiabank yesterday launched its fifth annual Vision Achiever Programme Business Plan Competition, which will see a total of $1.5 million going to the winning entrants.

The judiciary yesterday morning launched a two-day training exercise aimed at enhancing its capabilities in the adjudication of sexual offence cases and interaction with vulnerable persons in such matters.

The Cheddi Jagan International Airport Corporation (CJIAC) recorded the highest ever passenger movement through the airport in the first quarter of 2018.

Two of the six suspects apprehended by the police at a roadblock along Grove Pubic Road on Tuesday, shortly after an attempted break-in at Supply, East Bank Demerara, have been positively identified as the perpetrators who carried out several recent armed robberies.

Three more suspects were on Thursday arrested by the police in connection with the murder of Dominican Republic national Pedro Pablo Rosario, who was shot and killed last Friday when armed bandits invaded a mining camp at Black Water Backdam, Cuyuni River.

Three persons were rushed to the Diamond Hospital yesterday afternoon after a heavily-laden truck ran off the road at Long Creek, on the Soesdyke-Linden Highway.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S., British and French forces hammered Syria with air strikes early Saturday Syria time in response to a poison gas attack that killed dozens of people last week, in the biggest intervention by Western powers in Syria’s civil war.

The National Toshaos Council (NTC) today said it was “deeply dismayed and disappointed at the vile and visceral attack attributed to the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs” on its executive and its Vice Chair, Lenox Shuman.

BOSTON, (Reuters) – Massachusetts’ top court today rejected Exxon Mobil Corp’s bid to block the state’s attorney general from obtaining records to investigate whether the company for decades concealed its knowledge of the role fossil fuels play in climate change.

The Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the 2008 Lindo Creek killings is seeking to make contact with a number of former joint services personnel.

While calling the charges laid yesterday against former Finance Minister Ashni Singh and then head of the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL) Winston Brassington over land sales frivolous, former president Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday said that both acted in accordance with decisions made by his Cabinet.

The trial of former Public Service Minister Dr. Jennifer Westford and the ministry’s former Chief Personnel Officer Margaret Cummings, who are accused of attempting to steal state vehicles, can now continue after the Appeal Court discharged their request to stay the proceedings against them in the magistrate’s court.

Minister of Public Health, Volda Lawrence and the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Communities, convened a meeting with Regional Health officials and Regional Executive Officers of Regions Two, Three, Six, Seven and Ten to address the issues affecting the health sector.

The response to an ad by the Guyana National Broadcasting Authority (GNBA) for 12 broadcasters, including the state-owned National Communications Network (NCN), to make urgent contact because they failed to stick to the agreement on how they will pay over $100 million owed for broadcast rights, has been “heartening,” board chairman Leslie Sobers has said.

A Corentyne resident who was diagnosed with ‘wind’ at the Port Mourant Hospital last Sunday evening had to undergo emergency surgery at the Georgetown Public Hospital early on Monday morning.

American Airlines is still to submit its application to fly here to the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) even though it has announced that tickets were to go on sale from April 2 and for flights to begin in December, says GCAA Director General Egbert Field.