Guyana News

Medication for malaria is unavailable at several health centres in Guyana’s interior, resulting in patients having to travel lengthy distances for treatment, according to Guyana Women Miners Organisation (GWMO), which has been seeking the intervention of the Ministry of Public Health to address the situation.

President David Granger has justified the Ministry of the Presidency’s intervention in the post office’s planned issuance of stamps to commemorate the centennial birth anniversary of late president Dr.

Taxi driver Keron Jordan, 23, who police say was intercepted with almost three pounds of cannabis in his vehicle, was yesterday remanded to prison on a charge of possession or narcotics for trafficking.

A Campbellville Housing Scheme man was yesterday remanded to prison on a charge that police found almost a pound of cannabis under his bed and in his kitchen.

A homeless man was yesterday remanded to prison by a city court after being charged with breaking into the Bedford Methodist Church’s manse and stealing $125,000 in items.

Managers of the Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) took to the streets for the second day in a row yesterday to protest over the company’s “callous and slothful approach” to fulfilling promised allowances and an incremental increase that was agreed in principle during negotiations.

Two East Canje, Berbice residents were yesterday arrested and taken into police custody at the Weldaad Police Station after they were found with suspected cannabis.

Devon Lyte, the labourer who said he witnessed the March 15 shooting of the three  robbery suspects along the Kingston seawall while working on a Carifesta Avenue building was never on the roof as he claimed.

In a historic step, Guyana today filed its application to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) requesting that it confirm the legal validity and binding effect of the 1899 Arbitral Award on the boundary between Guyana and Venezuela.

The cash-strapped Guyana Sugar Corporation is expected to soon begin tapping  a $30B syndicated bond which it has secured from a group of local and regional banks for the revitalisation of its remaining sugar estates.

President David Granger has ordered that the police launch an investigation to determine the circumstances under which three robbery suspects were shot and killed along the Kitty seawall, Georgetown two weeks ago.

Outlining a six-point plan for thousands of laid off sugar workers, including land for them to earn a livelihood, commentator Christopher Ram yesterday waded into the unions that represent them, government, GuySuCo  and the former PPP/C administration for the state of the industry.

Three  men were charged yesterday with a string of armed robberies along the Corentyne coast over the last seven weeks.

Minister of Natural Resources, Raphael Trotman says that by the time oil production starts in two years a National Oil Spill and Contingency Plan (NOSCP) should be established.

A two-week investigation of the allegations that the Joint Services played a role in the deaths of the eight Lindo Creek miners found dead in 2008 did not yield any results, Head of the Guyana Police Force’s Office of  Professional Responsibility (OPR) testified on Tuesday, while noting that he was unable to even ascertain the source of the claims.

Fidela Corbin-Lincoln was yesterday sworn in as a Puisne Judge and President David Granger said that the integrity of the judiciary requires, in part, that judicial vacancies be filled expeditiously and meritoriously, a release from the Ministry of the Presidency said yesterday.

A West Coast Berbice man, Krishna Tulapersaud of Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice was yesterday sentenced to a total of 65 years on two counts of rape.

Almost two weeks after the police issued a wanted bulletin for Jamaul John for the offence of causing death by dangerous driving, he was yesterday taken before a city magistrate and charged with the crime.

A US federal judge has ordered Caribbean Airlines (CAL)  to pay about US$272,000 in damages to a Connecticut , US woman injured in a plane crash at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri in 2011.

At the trial of Precision Wood-working’s lawsuit against Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited for alleged breach of contract, its Managing Director, Ronald Bulkan said he sent various correspondences informing the bank of the financial difficulties plaguing the company and at least one purchase offer it had been made for some US$1m, yet the bank placed Precision in receivership.