Guyana News

The land identified at Barnwell, on the East Bank of Demerara, for the relocation of squatters from Lombard and Broad streets, Charlestown, has been found to be unsuitable for the move, according to Chief Executive Officer of the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) Lelon Saul.

A quick-thinking seven-year-old Glasgow, Berbice girl on Monday evening performed the heroic act of saving her four-year-old brother and herself, after their home caught afire around 9.30 pm.

Despite students calling for protests, the leadership of the University of Guyana Students’ Society (UGSS) yesterday said taking legal action is the “justified and righteous approach” to addressing what it views as the unlawful implementation of new administrative fees.

Permission to develop an indoor shooting range in Subryanville has been denied by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and an alternative location is being examined.

A handful of members of the Guyana Public Service Cooperative Credit Union yesterday staged a protest against the union’s board for non-payment of dividends, which is the result of the union’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) not being held in years.

Republic Bank (Guyana) Ltd has sued the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) for damages in excess of $260 million for what it says are sums owed for breach of contract and a judge on Monday ordered the sugar corporation to bear costs for wasting the court’s time and failing to inform of its plan to change lawyers.

The Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) is aiming to complete the construction of 10 housing units at Onderneeming, West Bank Demerara by early April as it continues its efforts to provide affordable housing solutions to Guyanese.

Collin Hooper, the South Ruimveldt Park man who allegedly flushed a quantity of cocaine down a toilet during a Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) raid at his home, was yesterday charged with having cocaine for trafficking.

Although Minister of Communities Ronald Bulkan has written two letters to Mayor Patricia Chase-Green about the City Council’s reported attempts to repurpose community playgrounds, he has received no response.

Lauding the decision by the United Nations Secre-tary General, Antonio Guterres to send the Guyana-Venezuela border controversy  to the Inter-national Court of Justice after decades of failed talks, former Foreign Affairs Minister Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett has appealed for unity among political parties here on the matter.

The Muslim Scholar rape case is expected to be heard by Magistrate Alex Moore on February 22 and the mother of three of the complainants on Saturday appealed for the continuous delays in having the matter referred to the High Court for trial to end.

How ExxonMobil’s Liza Phase Two Development Project will affect the marine life and the plans for the management of the hazardous waste that will be produced were paramount among the concerns raised at a public scoping meeting held in Georgetown on Monday.

Million-dollar bids were opened yesterday for the construction of a new fire station at Onverwagt, West Coast Berbice, Region 5, which has an engineer’s estimate of $31.8M.

The Ministry of Public Telecommunications on Friday launched its 98th Information and  Communication Technology (ICT) Hub at Mocha/Arcadia on the East Bank Demerara.

The presence of police patrols within the environs of the headquarters of the Guyana Society for the Blind has brought some level of comfort, but members are calling for more frequent patrols, and at the same time, for permanent armed guards for the institution.

A Stanleytown chef was on Friday placed on a total of $210,000 bail after denying three fraud charges.

Deputy Commander of ‘C’ Division, Superintendent Walter Stanton today helped a 71-year-old man to recover his pension which had been snatched from him by two men.

The Founder of the Faith Deliverance Ministries,  Pastor Andrew Hannibale, stood before Justice Sandil Kissoon today indicted for the rape of a child under sixteen years old.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Carl Greenidge says the government is diligently working to prepare its case on the Venezuela border controversy for the World Court secure in the knowledge that Guyana’s western neighbour will have to comply with the ruling of the international legal body.

Police have arrested two men in connection with the shooting to death of money changer Shawn Nurse and robbery has been ruled out as the motive for the attack.