Guyana News

Parliament is to sit on Thursday, July 20 and the government is expected to announce who will replace former Minister of Local Government, Nigel Dharamlall as a voting member of the assembly.

The Police are investigating a report of a hit-and-run fatal accident earlier this morning at about 0130 hrs on Foulis Access Road, East Coast Demerara.

By Joseph Allen General Secretary of the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU), Coretta McDonald is of the opinion that the Government is using delay tactics to eventually award a unilateral across-the-board increase  rather than what the union would have bargained for.

Wainwright McIntosh of A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) earlier this month was elected the new Mayor of New Amsterdam, while Kirk Fraser, also of APNU was elected as the deputy mayor of the town.

Four families from the communities of Good Hope and Lusignan, East Coast Demerara yesterday received keys to newly constructed, two-bedroom core homes.

Residents on the East Bank of Demerara are anxiously awaiting the return of sustained potable water supply by the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) after the collapse of the well servicing their area.

More than 1500 military personnel from 21 different nations are currently here in Guyana for the US-led Caribbean security exercise, Exercise Tradewinds.

A captain whose boat was badly damaged on Tuesday morning by the turbulence caused by a cargo vessel in Port Georgetown is calling for compensation from the Maritime Administration Department (MARAD).

Sixteen BOSAI Minerals Group employees serving on the Joint Workplace and Health Committee in Linden, Region Ten were recognised on Friday for successfully completing a three-day Joint Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) and National Insurance Scheme (NIS) Training Programme.

Digicel held its $20 million “Deal” or “No Deal” summer launch at the Theatre Guild in Kingston, Georgetown, yesterday afternoon.

President Irfaan Ali on Friday met with a delegation from Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), an Indian aerospace company founded in the 1940s.

A bandit is now nursing a gunshot wound to his thigh following a shootout with police at the Rio Hotel and Night Club yesterday.

The Ministry of Public Works is notifying the general public of a failed culvert along the Mahaica Road, just before Chris Auto Sales, and wishes to assure everyone that steps are being taken immediately to repair it.

Overdue by some six years, the long-awaited reconstitution of the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) was realised yesterday afternoon with the swearing-in of its members.

Gold trader, Nazar ‘Shell’ Mohamed and his son, Azruddin Mohamed yesterday denied the explosive claim in a Reuters special report that they were engaged in gold and drug smuggling.

Fifty-three-year-old Michael Andrew Morgan, of Lot 142 Ixora Avenue, Eccles, East Bank Demerara, appeared at the Diamond Magistrate’s Court yesterday before Magistrate Sunil Scarce where he was jailed for four years for possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking.

At the funeral service of Ashton Chase SC yesterday, President Irfaan Ali described him as a simple and humble man who shaped the history of Guyana, allowing citizens the right to enjoy a free and democratic society today.

Through its Global Gateway initiative, the European Union is planning to inject larger amounts of cash into the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), and its representative here in Guyana, Ambassador René van Nes, says that Guyana could significantly benefit.

As outgoing Mayor of Georgetown, Ubraj Narine, prepares to conclude his five-year term in office, he is urging the new council to stand strong on transparency and accountability once in office.

(Trinidad Guardian) Three local energy and economic analysts, Kevin Ramnarine, Gregory McGuire and Anthony Gonzales, are cautioning Guyana against joining the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), the grouping of some of the world’s largest oil producers, at this time.