Guyana News

The opposition PPP/C will help retrenched sugar workers to mount a legal challenge against government over their severance payments, Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo said last Thursday, “They [the government] are just making excuses to pay the sugar workers their severance.

Just days after what many would have considered the happiest day of her life, Donessa Barker was burnt with hot water.

Constitutional reform lobby group RISE Guyana Inc is urging both President David Granger and Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo to use the “meaningful consultation” provided for in the Constitution to arrive at a consensus on the appointment of the Chancellor and Chief Justice.

Kissan Henry, the seven-year-old who rescued her brother from their burning Glasgow Housing Scheme, East Bank Berbice house last Monday, was yesterday recognised by the Guyana Police Force, the Mark Benschop Foundation and others for her heroism.

A gang of armed bandits raided a Berbice River trader of over $1 million in supplies, including large amounts of fuel, in a pre-dawn attack last Friday.

Guyana-born Lynden Archer has been elected to the United States’ National Academy of Engineering (NAE).

Guyana is in the best place it has been for 52 years in its border controversy with Venezuela, President David Granger told the PNCR’s General Council meeting today.

President David Granger yesterday told visiting Brazilian Defence Minister Raul Jungmann that Guyana wants closer defence cooperation with Brasilia in light of what he said was the “present situation in the northern coast of South America.”

Local company GuyEnergy is to build a modular oil refinery in Region 10 at a cost of about two percent of what a paid international consultant to government had said might be needed here.

Twelve of the 29 teachers of the New Amsterdam Multilateral School (NAMS) have sought transfers amid divisions, including racial tension, and the parent-teacher body is seeking a meeting with the education minister.

A fisherman was shot and robbed of $7 million in cash along the Cove and John Public Road, East Coast Demerara yesterday, less than an hour after he had withdrawn the money from a commercial bank.

Head of the Private Sector Commission (PSC) Eddie Boyer says that although the inaugural oil and gas summit can be viewed as a success, local businesses shouldn’t “build or invest in anticipation” since they are not guaranteed any contracts and could stand to lose if they “rush.”

The Guyana Office for Investment (GO-Invest) yesterday accused the person responsible for the placement of recent newspaper ads warning investors to “GOINVEST ELSEWHERE” of seeking to extort the agency.

The first shipment of equipment for use in Guyana’s oil development operations in 2020 arrived on Wednesday night at ExxonMobil’s onshore support base, located at Muneshwers Limited’s Houston port.

The three accused in the murders of pensioners Constance Fraser, 89, and Phyllis Caesar, 77, who were found dead in their South Road and Albert Street, Georgetown home last year, were yesterday committed to stand trial.

A Goed Fortuin businessman was yesterday re-manded to prison after he was charged with trafficking 20.6 pounds of cocaine, which were found in frozen fish by the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA).

Former Muneshwers Limited Travel Service agent Priya Lall, who is accused of defrauding customers and fleeing the country, was yesterday charged with an additional count of embezzlement from the company.

The two police constables accused of raping a Sophia woman at the Turkeyen Police Station on New Year’s Day have been charged with the crime.

Murder accused Narvin Sugrim Andrews, who was on remand for almost seven years at the New Amsterdam Prison, finally got his day in court this week and he was sentenced to 12 years in jail after pleading guilty to a lesser count of manslaughter.

A Wismar taxi driver was fatally stabbed early yesterday morning by his ex-wife’s current partner after he “violently forced” his way into the woman’s Amelia’s Ward, Linden home, police have said.