Guyana News

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.

A man died on Sunday evening after he lost control of his motorcycle and swerved into a motor lorry along the Annandale Public Road, East Coast Demerara (ECD).

The Amelia’s Ward and Wisroc water treatment plants are expected to become operational by mid next month.

Caleb Caesar, who it is alleged conspired to smuggle cocaine hidden in wiri wiri peppers out of the country, was committed to stand trial in the High Court yesterday after a city magistrate found that a prima facie case had been made out against him.

A Vryheid’s Lust man was yesterday placed on $100,000 bail after he denied making a false declaration on an immigration form at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport.

Residents of South Rupununi villages close to the Marudi goldfields have alleged that some miners have breached an agreement reached earlier this year and have asked government to intervene, the Government Information Agency (GINA) has reported.

A consolidated Public Utilities Commission (PUC) bill which replaces the Public Utilities Commission Act to cater for changes as a result of the passage of the Telecommunications bill, was passed by the National Assembly on Monday.

Tenders were opened yesterday for a new nursery school and apartments for teachers’ living quarters in Region 9.

Region Six Regional Executive Officer (REO) Dr. Veerasammy Ramayya was granted permission by the Ministry of Communities to proceed on 14 days of vacation leave.

Shamar Morris, a carpenter, was yesterday charged with procuring pregnant cocaine mule Patrima Isaacs to traffic a quantity of cocaine last month.

  Closing statements were yesterday submitted by the attorney representing Roger Bess, the driver who allegedly fatally struck an elderly man and injured two other persons on Cemetery Road last year.

The Ministry of Social Cohesion on Friday rewarded the top performers of the 2016 Annual Grade Six Assessment 2016 from the Cuyuni/ Mazaruni (Region Seven) area with bicycles and books bags, to further encourage them in their academic pursuits, a release from the Ministry of the Presidency said yesterday.

A depression along Carifesta Avenue, in the vicinity of the GTT facility, caused a driver to go careening into a nearby trench on Monday after swerving to avoid the recently constructed median.

Residents of the Fyrish/Gibraltar area in East Berbice are venting their anger at the ongoing flooding in the area.

A St. Ignatius villager will be spending the next three years in jail after he admitted that he was caught by police while transporting drugs for a friend.

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) yesterday once again protested outside of the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) headquarters over its claim that the 2015 general elections were rigged and to call for Chairman Dr Steve Surujbally to go.

A man is currently in police custody assisting with investigations over the stabbing of his neighbour yesterday.

The Corporate Secretary of the Guyana Power and Light Inc (GPL) yesterday testified that prior to 2015 none of the board members were paid.

Mark Prince, 36,  ‘aka Fine man’ is wanted by the police for questioning in relation to ‘robbery under arms’, the police say.