Guyana News

The Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) has begun its approximately $745 million electrification project in some sixteen government-led communities across the country.

A Mocha businessman was yesterday granted $1,000,000 bail after he denied causing the death of a woman, whom he struck along the Herstelling Public Road, through dangerous driving.

People’s Progressive Party (PPP) member and former Junior Minister in the Ministry of Agriculture, Ally Baksh passed away yesterday after a brief illness.

The trial of Mark Royden Williams, called, ‘Smallie’ and Sherwin Nero, called ‘Catty,’ for the 2007 murder of Kumar Singh, also known as ‘Mango Man,’ is no longer likely to commence during the current criminal session of the Demerara Assizes.

A post-mortem examination will be done on the decomposed body of the missing Newtown, Kitty resident, which was discovered on Wednesday in the backlands of Brighton Village, Corentyne.

The Mayor and City Council (M&CC), through a partnership with GTT, on Tuesday launched its Mobile Money payment platform, which now allows rate payers to pay rates and taxes using the application.

Two policemen, including a former ‘Best Cop’ awardee, were yesterday charged with the murder of businessman Godfrey Scipio, called ‘Sagga’, who was gunned down outside of a city hotel last month.

Minister of State, Joseph Harmon, last evening, announced that the Government of Guyana has received more than 70 unsolicited Expressions of Interest from investors, who are interested in turning around the ailing sugar industry.

Chief Justice (ag) Roxane George SC yesterday ruled that the directive given by the Minister of State to the Police Service Commission (PSC) to halt the consideration of planned promotions for this year was unlawful and a blatant disregard for the Constitution, according to Attorney Anil Nandlall.

Coen Jackson, the Bishops’ High School teacher accused of sexually grooming and preying on female students has been sent on administrative leave pending the outcome of investigations.

In the face of continued silence by government on if it received a US$20M signing bonus from US oil company, ExxonMobil, Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday said that he could “reasonably confirm” the transaction and that it was paid sometime earlier this year.

More leaked emails from Alliance for Change (AFC) executives show that several key figures did not agree with President David Granger’s unilateral selection of Justice James Patterson as the Guyana Elections Commission Chairman on October 19 and the head of the US chapter slammed the party over its stance.

The STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Department at the Cyril Potter College of Education (CPCE) will soon have an upgrade compliments of a US$250,000 Memorandum of Under-standing (MOU) signed by the Ministry of Education and the People’s Republic of China.

The decomposed body of a Newtown, Georgetown resident who reportedly went missing on November 11, was discovered yesterday morning at about 11 am, aback of Brighton Village, Corentyne.

GuySuCo produced some 5,600 bags of rice from the 200 acres that were planted at the former Wales sugar estate, about 2,000 bags short of its target.

On December 6, the Court of Appeal will rule on the New Building Society’s (NBS) challenge to the $79 million awarded to dismissed manager, Maurice Arjoon.

As the ANSA McAl Group of Companies launched its new automotive store yesterday, Minister of Business, Dominic Gaskin reiterated government’s commitment to providing affordable and energy efficient vehicles.

Two thousand customers of Plaisance and Ogle have been promised 24-hours water supply for Christ-mas, by the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI), from the newly drilled $40 million Sparendaam well.

The 58-year-old man who is accused of severely chopping sales clerk Narinie Gopaul on Sunday night, severing two of her fingers was yesterday charged with attempted murder and remanded to prison.

Despite an assurance from Gaico Construction Services that a key section of the Parfaite Harmonie access road is sound, consultant Edward Gonsalves has said it was constructed with poor quality asphalt, which is responsible for its continued deterioration.