Guyana News

Health services offered by the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) got a boost from the Chinese Government yesterday with a donation of US$420,000 worth of medical equipment and supplies.

A drive down De Hoop Road reveals miles upon miles of picturesque scenery: ploughed, burnt and irrigated fields, with houses dotting the landscape.

Caribbean Aqua Terrestrial Solutions (CATS), supported by funding from the German government, handed over an aluminium boat and 50 HP four-stroke Yamaha outboard engine to the Mahaica River Birding Tour Group yesterday.

Following a high volume of complaints from city residents and businesses over its poor service since resuming garbage collection, the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) has rehired one of the firms it had dropped to once again handle the job in the central business district.

Sugar union GAWU yesterday reaffirmed its position that GuySuCo had kept it and sugar workers in the dark about plans to grow rice on the Wales estate and it called for the feasibility study to be made public to determine if the corporation was being “penny-wise and pound-foolish.”

Two employees of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) were robbed in an armed attack yesterday afternoon in front the agency’s Brickdam office.

The Department of Labour has launched an investigation into the death of a construction worker, who was electrocuted and fell off of a three storey building at Diamond, East Bank Demerara.

Today at about 12:50h, the police say that two armed suspects committed a robbery on two employees of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), in the process they escaped with a handbag containing $10,000, one iPad, an electronic dictionary and some documents.

The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) today said it had decided to seek conciliation at the Ministry of Labour on the deadlock with the government over pay for public servants.

Criticised for not keeping the public abreast of what has been transpiring, the Ministry of Agriculture today announced that Minister Noel Holder and a team had visited the Wales sugar estate to inspect steps towards diversification.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC – Reigning World champions West Indies were humbled by Pakistan in the opening Twenty20 International here Friday, after virtually condemning themselves with a feeble batting effort at the Dubai International Stadium.

At approximately 04:06 hrs this morning, the No. 1 & 2 Turbines at the Skeldon Co-generation plant shut down during an attempt to start the shredder at the Skeldon Factory, the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) said.

Sixteen months after taking office, the APNU+AFC government is being accused by a united labour movement of breaching established practices  in relation to four major trade unions including the GPSU which is presently in a deadlock with the administration over public service pay.

Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) has filed a formal protest against their loss of a bid to supply boxed juices for the national school feeding programme which went to Surinamese company, Rudisa.

The National Communications Network (NCN) is once again facing a call for a review of its operations after purportedly asking anchor Natasha Smith to retract her claim that she was yanked off air because of her pregnancy.

A 15-year-old in the North West District has been charged with murder after he is alleged to have fatally beaten a businessman, who was accused of raping his pre-teen sister, and then staging his death to look like a suicide.

Rakesh Karramchan, a fourth suspect in the murders of two men and a teen boy at Mibicuri in July, was yesterday charged and remanded to prison by Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan.

A woman was arrested yesterday after she created a disturbance at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts complex, where she announced that she would kill a police officer whom she accused of taking money from her and having her imprisoned.

Nearly nine months after it unveiled a draft witness protection bill, the government will hold a consultation on it amid concerns that it has been too slow to act in this matter.

A man who was wanted for questioning over the murder of Orrette West on the Plaisance Railway Embankment in June has been apprehended.