Guyana News

Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo last night stood by statements he had made in New York about discrimination against Indo-Guyanese which the APNU+AFC government has described as race-baiting.

City Hall amassed a whopping $1.29 billion in revenue for the first six months of the year but continues to operate at a deficit and some city councillors are frustrated at their inability to access detailed information on the city’s expenditure.

The Government of Guyana (GoG) yesterday condemned Leader of the Opposition Bharrat Jagdeo for “race baiting,” after he claimed that there is “an assault on people of Indian origin” during a speech at an event in New York recently.

The police are continuing to work all angles and a number of theories in order to solve last week’s triple murder at Mibicuri, Black Bush Polder and Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum said yesterday that a team from the force’s Major Crimes Unit (MCU) was expected to head to the area to lend assistance in the investigation.

The appointment of new foreign mission heads was based on merit and was not a form of reward, President David Granger said last evening even as he called on them to put the border controversy with Venezuela on the front burner.

Local business group Nand Persaud and Company Limited will shortly unveil what is said to be the largest solar energy project in the country to date with 220 kilowatts of energy expected to be generated to power the group’s call centre at Tain, Corentyne.

An investigation has been launched into the death of a Matthews Ridge woman who succumbed one week after giving birth via caesarean section (C-section) at the Georgetown Public Hospital, Minister of Public Health Dr George Norton has said.

Over the next several weeks, the Liliendaal and South Ruimveldt drainage catchment areas will be modelled by a Dutch team, as government looks to better manage Georgetown’s drainage system.

The family of missing 24-year-old barber Navendra Hemrup, who disappeared without a trace more than one month ago, is appealing for help in locating him.

Fourteen Venezuelans, who said they entered Guyana illegally to find work in the light of the collapsing economy of their home nation, now face deportation.

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC) Allan Johnson yesterday denied allegations that Director of Nursing Services Sister Colleen Hicks had been insubordinate toward him.

Wales Estate sugar workers are confused about why they have not received their severance payouts, in the light of their unions saying that an interim injunction it secured against GuySuCo should not prevent the entity from paying.

Michael Thorne and Jamal McLeod, the drivers who were charged with the death of a minibus passenger after the Independence Day crash, were on Friday charged with causing a second death.

A date has been set for the start of the Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the charge against the three men held in connection with the grenade that was lobbed at the vehicle of the owner of Kaieteur News, Glenn Lall.

First Lady Sandra Granger yesterday met with United States-based early childhood education specialist and teacher Dorrie Thomas-Crawford, who has been hosting training workshops for teachers in the Buxton community for over seven years.

Youths in penal institutions including the New Opportunity Corps (NOC) at Onderneeming, Essequibo Coast and the Juvenile Detention Centre in Georgetown are receiving help from the Ministry of Social Protection so they can be re-integrated into society.

The three persons who were detained for questioning into the murder of handyman Ganesh Roopnarine, whose body was found along the Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara (ECD) Public Road more than one week ago, have been released.

After nearly becoming the victim of a con artist, an Alexander Village woman is trying to sensitize other persons before they too fall prey to the latest wave of cell phone scams.

One week after it was struck by lightning, Radio Mabaruma, the only local radio station in Region One (Barima-Waini) is now back on air following repairs to the building.

The teenager who is accused of chopping his stepfather to death during last week will be making his first court appearance today after the police received legal advice, according to Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum.