Guyana News

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At a meeting with Carib-bean leaders in The Bahamas, US Vice President Kamala Harris yesterday unveiled humanitarian aid for Haiti, financing for clean energy and emergency response  and a new post in the Department of Justice to interrupt arms trafficking to the region.

Finding prospects of success in the appeal filed by the EPA to a High Court ruling ordering it to enforce the liability clause in a permit for ExxonMobil’s offshore oil operations here, Appeal Court judge, Rishi Persaud has granted the EPA and the company a stay of that order which had also provided for the suspension of the permit.

Police are investigating the murder of a Guyana Defence Force (GDF) lieutenant, Rondel Anthony Douglas, 33, who was attached to the Coast Guard and resided at Bagotville, West Bank Demerara (WBD).

The ruling PPP/C upped the ante for local government elections with two rallies yesterday, one in South Georgetown and the other in Kitty, as its General Secretary  Bharrat Jagdeo, assured city residents that central government will support their councillors should the party win City Hall.

As the nation approaches Local Government Elections (LGE) on June 12, the Opposition APNU  wants Guyanese to reject the PPP’s desire, which it says is to “dominate and control” all aspects of people’s lives.

Incessant heavy rainfall yesterday spurred a water build-up in low-lying parts of Georgetown and other areas but by afternoon most of the accumulation had receded after downpours eased.

Steve Bacchus, a 29 year-old man of Lot 57 Prince William Street, Plaisance, East Coast Demerara was on Wednesday charged with the possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking and pleaded not guilty yesterday.

All Mahdia secondary school students are being given the option to write the Caribbean Secondary Examination Certificate (CSEC) in January, Education Minister Priya Manickchand said on Wednesday.

On Wednesday, Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) officers conducted an operation at a residence in No.

The Iwokrama International Centre for Rain Forest Conservation and Development (Iwokrama) has signed a Memorandum of Understand-ing (MOU) with the National Toshaos Council (NTC) to collaborate on initiatives relating to community development, biodiversity conservation, sustainable livelihoods and other areas.

Urgent intervention is required to rehabilitate the deteriorating sections of the main access road to the Eugene F Correia International Airport at Ogle and the management of the airport is preparing to write Minister of Public Works Juan Edghill for a meeting to discuss the issue.

Students of the University of Guyana’s Faculty of Technology were this week exposed to reclamation and construction engineering techniques used to create the artificial island in the Demerara River and the shore base at Vreed-en-Hoop.

The cancellation of yet another Parliamen-tary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) meeting on Monday has seen opposition members slamming the government side for failing to honour their obligations and commitments to the House.

Justice of Appeal Rishi Persaud today granted ExxonMobil a stay of execution of an order by the High Court that it supply an “unlimited” financial guarantee for its Liza-1 well.

Guyana Defence Force Captain, Rondel Douglas was killed during a robbery in North Ruimveldt last night.

The construction of the new Christ Church Secon-dary School is expected to commence in two weeks as contracts to the tune of $688.1 million were signed between the Ministry of Education (MoE) and seven contractors yesterday.

Two children, ages three and nine,  died in a fire yesterday at Market Street, Belmont, Mahaica.

Following her statement that the “relevant parties” were made aware of the findings from the Ministry of Education-commissioned report on state dormitories,  Education Minister Priya Manickchand yesterday remained mum on who those persons were and when pressed said that the names would be made public at a later date.

Moments after being convicted on charges of raping a teenaged girl, shop owner Wesley Bazil collapsed at the High Court in Demerara after cutting his neck with a razor blade he had concealed on him.