Guyana News

Citizens Bank officially opened its new $2.5 billion corporate head office yesterday and was admonished by President David Granger to shy away from trying to be responsive to the needs of all sections of society.

Conservation International (CI) on Tuesday evening launched a new four-year-project geared at achieving mercury-free mining practices among small-scale miners.

Sections of the Kitty Public Road will be closed and traffic will be redirected sometime next month when the Ministry of Public Infrastructure (MPI) expects to begin works to fix the sinkhole along the Seawall Road and surrounding defects.

The University of Guyana students who were displaced by the Cummings Lodge apartment fire were yesterday presented with laptops, mattresses and stationery by the Ministry of Social Protection.

The Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) will move to repossess lands sold by the previous government to private developers if they continue to fail to deliver on promised infrastructural works and housing development.

The police on Thursday evening arrested a second person as they continued to probe the armed robbery outside the Jailing store, during which a taxi driver was shot.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – Newly appointed Director of Cricket, Jimmy Adams, says one of the major items on his agenda is creating a structure that can lead to the establishing of a new winning culture in West Indies cricket.

Senior officials from PPP/C-led regions and municipalities today boycotted a local government conference citing the lack of consultation and short notice among other issues.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States today, succeeding Barack Obama and telling a bitterly divided country he will pursue “America First” policies at home and abroad.

President David Granger yesterday justified the decision to have Attorney-General Basil Williams SC meet with a representative of Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo on the nominees for the chair of the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom), while emphasising his desire to choose a candidate who is fit to be a judge.

A move to bring a criminal charge against on-leave Ministry of the Presidency Permanent Secretary Omar Shariff and a woman was yesterday aborted after the special prosecutor assigned to the matter discovered issues with the case file.

Bartica massacre accused Mark Royden Williams yesterday told Justice Roxane George SC and the jury hearing his trial that he is innocent of the charges levelled against him.

The APNU+AFC government quietly signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on December 8, 2016 with a Trinidadian company to look at the possibility of setting up a sugarcane processing facility at the Skeldon Sugar Estate.

The Guyana Public Service Union is once again drawing attention to the plight of sweeper/cleaners attached to Public Schools.

After tying up three guards, bandits yesterday morning broke into the Lusignan/Reconnaissance Neighbourhood Dem-ocratic Council (NDC) office and stole a digital camera, a grass cutter and fuel pump after finding an empty safe, which they believed had contained $16 million.

Convicted drug trafficker Barry Dataram was yesterday sentenced to three years in jail for the unlawful possession of ammunition, while his common-law wife, Anjanie Boodnarine, had the charge against her withdrawn.

Simon James, the suspect in the fatal stabbing of a man at Moruca on Sunday, was yesterday remanded to prison after being read a charge of murder by a city magistrate.

A taxi driver was shot yesterday when bandits robbed his passenger of approximately $1.5 million in a brazen attack outside the Jialing store at Charlotte and Oronoque streets, Georgetown.

The Guyana Court of Appeal on Tuesday set aside the 58-month jail sentence handed down to jeweller Bishnarine ‘Sanjay’ Persaud in 2015 for causing death by dangerous driving, while saying that the decision to convict was “troubling.”

A couple and a former ministerial aide, who are accused of plotting to traffic a large quantity of cocaine aboard a Fly Jamaica flight in 2015, were yesterday ordered to lead a defence after a court found that a prima facie case was made out against them.