After suffering the devastating effects of spring tides, residents of Uitvlugt, Leonora and Stewartville on the West Coast Demerara were granted a respite yesterday as floodwaters began to recede, leaving many counting their losses and some bracing for more destruction.
With the commissioning of a rehabilitated water supply system, an estimated 95% of the 340 residents of Yurong Paru, in Region Nine, have gained first time access to treated water that has met World Health Organization (WHO) standards, according to the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI).
Government last Thursday signed a US$218,020 grant with the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) for the implementation of a local government reform project.
Alicea Dias’s life was snuffed out over 20 years ago when an allegedly drunken driver knocked her off of her motorbike, but the years have not lessened her mother’s pain even though the tragedy gave her a voice she never thought she had.
Guyana’s development lies not in “being able to produce a billion tonnes of anything” but in being able to provide “skill intensive services” to both the local and international community, Minister of Foreign Affairs Carl Greenidge said yesterday.
While Mabaruma has come a long way since receiving township status in 2015, more financial support is needed to ensure that it forges ahead with its plan to become a model hinterland town, according to Mayor Henry Smith.
A rural constable stationed at the Brickdam Police Station is currently hospitalised after he was shot on Friday night as he was rendering assistance to a Guyana Defence Force (GDF) rank, who was injured while providing security at an event in Laing Avenue, Georgetown.
Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Heads of Government have recognised the occurrence of successive major hurricanes as a new norm to which the region must adapt and have, therefore, acknowledged several proposals from the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA), which has been tasked with conducting an assessment of the resources needed to operationalise a disaster risk management and mitigation strategy.
Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Heads of Government have offered their support to the decision to use the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to resolve the border controversy between Guyana and Venezuela.
Minister of Foreign Affairs Carl Greenidge and Haitian Foreign Minister Antonio Rodrigue last Tuesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on behalf of the two countries to deepen cooperation in several areas.
The hearing of Precision Woodworking’s over five-year-old lawsuit against Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited for alleged breach of contract is now set to begin on March 22nd at 1 pm.
The police say they are investigating the circumstances surrounding an incident at Laing Avenue,Charlestown about 11.30 last night that resulted in a Rural Constable attached to the Brickdam Police Station nursing a gunshot wound to his lower back at the GPHC.
Towering spring tides yesterday flooded three villages on the West Coast Demerara, destroying houses, smashing 75 feet of the Uitvlugt sea defence, drowning livestock and displacing patients of the Leonora Hospital.
Two suspected bandits were killed by police in a shootout in the Berbice River yesterday morning, hours after they reportedly raided a ranch house as part of a six-man gang and stole livestock and other property.
Mabaruma Mayor Henry Smith yesterday warned that a health crisis may be looming in Region One given the large number of Venezuelans who are illegally crossing the border to seek medical attention and engage in trade.
Minister of Natural Resources Raphael Trotman has denied that the plan to establish a Department of Energy to oversee the petroleum sector is due to the criticism directed at both him and the government over the contract negotiated with ExxonMobil’s local subsidiary and its partners.
Opposition leader Bharrat Jagdeo has scoffed at government’s decision to have an international firm advise on marketing the country’s remaining oil blocks, saying it is most prudent to either auction them or leave them for future generations.
Government on Wednesday released a petroleum agreement that was signed between the then president Donald Ramotar and Israeli company Ratio Energy Limited just two weeks prior to the May 11th, 2015 general elections, and it also includes terms that mirror those in the controversial 2016 deal between the current administration and the local ExxonMobil affiliate and partners.