Guyana News

Regional Chairman of Region One (Barima-Waini) Brentnol Ashley has denied that the Mabaruma Public Hospital has a shortage of any medication to treat snake bites and scorpion stings.

(Ministry of Education press release) 851 candidate from 9 Secondary Schools and Four Private institutions sat the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) in May – June of 2017.

Businessman Clifton Bacchus today said he is unaware that his hotel Sleepin is the subject of a money laundering probe as alleged in a report in today’s Guyana Chronicle.

Although President David Granger’s recent directive to the Police Service Com-mission to halt its consideration of promotions is unconstitutional, Chairman Omesh Satyanand yesterday said that some members of the body have decided to comply.

Convinced that the courts will find the metered parking contract to be illegal, the Movement Against Parking Meters (MAPM) is calling on the Georgetown City Council to bite the bullet and rescind the contract with Smart City Solutions (SCS).

Five ministers attended an annual partnership meeting with ExxonMobil in Houston, Texas over the weekend and heard that the company will extract 120,000 barrels of oil per day in 2020 and the use of available natural gas is also on the agenda.

According to Minister of Finance Winston Jordan, in light of regional economic developments, the 2017 Mid-year growth of 2.2% should be regarded positively.

The Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) yesterday announced that it is conducting an audit of its office in Region Two following the arrest of a housing officer, who is accused of collecting money for a house lot and issuing a forged receipt.

Emergency work on the Hunt Oil Stretch has successfully been completed and, as of Friday afternoon, traffic flow along the key route into Region Nine had resumed as per normal, a release from the Ministry of Public Infrastructure (MPI) said yesterday.

A building contractor had fraud charges against him dismissed last Friday after his family reached an agreement with the complainant to settle the matter.

The Guyana Fire Service (GFS) yesterday afternoon quickly extinguished a fire on a boat where workers were pumping fuel at the BK International Wharf on Water Street.

A woman was yesterday granted her release on $150,000 bail after she was charged with collecting money for the sale of a car that she was not in a position to sell.

The owner of the Stretch D Dollar franchise in Berbice, who murdered his wife before committing suicide on Friday, died from gunshot wounds.

A father of three was yesterday remanded to prison for allegedly using a pair of scissors to rob a woman.

The Chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) yesterday signaled a decision to appeal the High Court’s order that $9 million seized from convicted drug trafficker Barry Dataram be returned to his brother, Troy Dataram.

Mervin Blackman, one of the men charged with the Meadow Bank fish depot robbery last year, was yesterday hauled before a city court once again on charges that he had a pistol and ammunition.

The Cuban rice market has now been made available to Guyana after a series of negotiations over the past months, the Department of Public Information (DPI) says.

Digicel has rejected  claims by the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GTT) that programming issues on  Digicel’s network is responsible for GTT customers not receiving text messages from Digicel.

In the last two years, 53 young Guyanese have been sent on overseas scholarships and 540 to local institutions by the government.

Cevons Waste Management Inc and Puran Brothers Disposal Services could find themselves liable to pay the city council for the purported termination of their five-year contracts for garbage collection in the city.