Guyana News

The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) and the National Association of Agricultural, Commercial and Industrial Employees (NAACIE) came to an agreement on Tuesday for the workers to take home a 5% increase, a day after they protested the initial proposal of 2%.

The $43.1 billion budgeted for the education sector was yesterday approved by the Committee of Supply with Minister within the Ministry of Education Nicolette Henry being grilled by opposition members on among other things, the controversial Kato Secondary School and why teachers of Region 9 had not been paid as of yesterday for the month of December.

The International Centre for Parliamentary Studies (ICPS), has chosen Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM),  Dr Steve Surujbally to be this year’s recipient of the ICPS Award for Sustained Achievement in the Field of Elections Management, a release from GECOM said yesterday.

In order to bring into effect the various new tax measures included in the 2017 Budget, Minister of Finance, Winston Jordan on Tuesday took 11 new bills to the National Assembly and had them read for the first time, along with six new papers.

Leader of the Opposition Bharrat Jagdeo today submitted a list of six names to President David Granger from which he would hopefully choose the chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission.

ONITSHA, Nigeria, (Reuters) – An oil spill from Exxon Mobil Corp facilities in southeast Nigeria’s Akwa Ibom state has hit local communities, affecting farming, fishing and drinking water, a local leader said on Wednesday.

Five young men appeared before a city court yesterday where altogether, they were charged with crimes of murder, attempted murder, and robbery under arms, including the slaying of a Good Hope rice farming couple and the recent Tower Suites robbery.

As ExxonMobil gears up for  production from Guyana’s first oil well by mid-2020, the company yesterday announced that it has awarded contracts to US-based, SBM offshore for a floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel.

Two police constables attached to the Central Police Station in New Amsterdam, Berbice were placed under close arrest on Monday afternoon over possession of five kilogrammes of marijuana.

An early morning accident along the Amelia’s Ward Public Road, Linden has left a market vendor dead and four others including her mother and two children injured after the car they were travelling in collided head-on with a minibus.

A South Sophia man who was found with cocaine hidden in Banko wine at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) on Friday told a city court that he “was under pressure” at the time and had been promised US$2,500 to transport the drugs.

A Guyanese national has been sentenced to 19 years to life in prison for killing a teenage guest at a New York wedding on Long Island, in 1999.

  Minister of State Joseph Harmon has had environmental issues officially added to his portfolio.

Dynamic Airways went back into action on Monday, after it left 600 passengers stranded at the Cheddi Jagan and John F.

As part of an effort to tackle crime cohesively, the Guyana Police Force yesterday handed over intelligence and information on a wide range of criminal activities to their Surinamese counterparts who were in Guyana on an exchange visit.

A 27- year old cattle farmer left the High Court last week Tuesday a free man, after a no-case submission was upheld by Justice William Ramlal.

Smart City Solutions (SCS) has begun to install parking meters around the city and the company will today demonstrate how it works.

Minister within the Ministry of Social Protection, Keith Scott came under fire last evening for his inability to answer several questions posed by members of the Opposition regarding a $24M allocation for an “Umbrella body,”- the Guyana National Cooperative Union Limited (GNCUL).

Minister of Foreign Affairs Carl Greenidge yesterday disclosed that Ramphal House on South Road which accommodates several departments of the ministry will be pulled down next year because of its dilapidated state and a new building will be erected.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Carl Greenidge yesterday said that while Guyana has lost faith in the UN Good Offices process as it relates to the country’s border controversy with Venezuela, it is willing to give it one last try.