Guyana News

A deadline has been set for the end of the 1st quarter by Hong Kong Golden Telecom Limited (HKGT) and National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL) to conclude discussions on the outstanding US$5M for the purchase of government shares in the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT).

A North Sophia woman was yesterday placed on $75,000 bail for allegedly stealing jewellery valued over $750,000.

Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo today wrote President David Granger to say that he was not in support of the two persons nominated to be Chancellor of the Judiciary and Chief Justice.

The police today said they are probing the robbery with violence on Joy Proctor, 71, of Rosa Drive, South Ruimveldt this morning.

President David Granger is no longer delivering the keynote address at today’s GIPEX oil summit at the Marriott Hotel.

The Guyana Securities Council (GSC) is seeking information on a shareholder in ON Energy Inc, a subsidiary of Canadian oil company CGX Inc.

The inaugural Guyana International Petroleum Business Summit (GIPEX) opens today at the Marriott Hotel in Georgetown, promising networking opportunities for both local and international businesses with key players in the oil and gas sector.

A total of four persons are now in police custody as investigators continue to probe the murder of money changer Shawn Nurse and a motorcycle that is suspected to have been used to commit the crime has been found and impounded.

Last evening, Customs Anti Narcotic Unit (CANU) ranks stationed at CJIA intercepted a stash of suspected cocaine concealed in partly frozen fish scheduled for export to the USA.

Hakeem Mohamed, the key witness in the trial of  four men in relation to $550 million in cocaine discovered hidden in lumber, yesterday testified at the commencement of the trial at the Leonora Magistrate’s Court before Magistrate Rochelle Liverpool.

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.