Guyana News

The National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) is inviting bids for the rehabilitation of the electric pump at Trafalgar, West Coast Berbice.

Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited is once again sponsoring the 2016 edition of the Right Start Pan Minors Music Literacy Programme.

Six new Heads of Missions are undergoing a one-week orientation at the Foreign Service Institute, after which they will be deployed to their various posts overseas and were challenged by Foreign Minister Carl Greenidge to be strategic thinkers.

For the year so far, there has been a 50 per cent reduction in fatal accidents in Berbice and Traffic Chief of ‘B’ Division Boodnarine Persaud has linked this to the high number of persons charged and prosecuted for traffic violations.

Improved and new services will be rolled out in the coming months, with the liberalisation of the telecommunications sector on the horizon, now that the Telecommunication (Amendment) Bill 2016 has been passed in parliament, Chief Executive Officer of GTT Justin Nedd has said.

The suspect in the fatal beating of mechanic Yugeshwar Shiwcharan is yet to be recaptured, one week after he escaped from the La Grange Police station lockups.

At approximately 10:35 yesterday morning, a burnt feeder panel at the Old Sophia substation caused a shutdown of  the entire GPL Demerara-Berbice Interconnected System (DBIS) with the exception of the West Demerara feeders.

Last Friday, Dawn Stewart, the unopposed nominee of the Guyana Equality Forum (GEF) was elected as the civil society representative to the monitoring mechanism for programmes funded here by the Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

Yesterday morning Kim Højlund Christensen was accredited as non-resident Ambassador of Denmark to Guyana.

Radio Mabaruma 95.1 FM, an affiliate of the National Communications Network (NCN) is currently down and off air, GINA said yesterday.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua,  CMC – Following is the list of award winners from the fourth West Indies Cricket Board/West Indies Players’ Association Awards Ceremony held here last night.

The Ministry of Education today issued guidelines for school registration fees and stated that no student shall be denied registration due to their parent’s inability to pay.

The Shipping Association of Guyana is studying legal action against the George-town Mayor and City Council (M&CC) after City Hall officers barred container trucks from leaving wharves over a “road assessment”.

The National Assembly on Monday night adopted the second report of the Committee on Appointments, paving the way for the appointing of the Director and Deputy Director of the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU).

“Without merit” was how the Ministry of Communities yesterday described claims by Cevons Waste Management that a $221M contract for the management of the Haags Bosch landfill on the East Bank Demerara had been improperly awarded to Puran Brothers Disposal Inc.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has removed its dress code. “We don’t want the taxpayers to feel as if we are turning our backs on them… and more so if they are coming to pay their revenues,” Chairman of the GRA Board Rawle Lucas told Stabroek News yesterday.

Around 9,000 families living under difficult circumstances will be supported through the Ministry of Social Protection’s Conditional Cash Transfer programme which is set to be launched soon, GINA said.

A Norton Street woman is at her wits’ end as she tries to remain hopeful that her husband will make a safe return after he reportedly went missing several days ago in the Mahdia area.

A Berbice mother of 14 was yesterday charged with willfully neglecting three of her daughters, who were found loitering on the seawall early last Thursday morning.

Government, through the Ministry of Social Protection’s Department of Labour will soon start talks with the private sector and union bodies to review the national minimum wage paid to workers, GINA said yesterday.