Guyana News

KINGSTON, Jamaica,  CMC – Rain and bad light have forced the abandonment of play on the third day of the second Test between West Indies and India at Sabina Park here Monday.

The outage of internet connectivity to airlines in Guyana is due to the failure of the Americas 11 cable system near the shore of Martinique, GTT said today.

A freak storm roared through the tiny community of Swan on the Linden/Soesdyke Highway on Saturday flattening fragile homes, toppling trees and ripping roofs off buildings, leaving several residents including some with young children, traumatised and without a roof over their heads.

Comments by Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo that the PPP is going to “take back Guyana” for its supporters marks the transformation of the PPP into an “ethnic party representing exclusively ethnic interests,” former PPP stalwart Ralph Ramkarran says In his column in the Sunday Stabroek yesterday, Ramkarran, who also served as Speaker of the National Assembly during Jagdeo’s presidency, said the charges of discrimination which Jagdeo and the PPP have made before are

The University of Guyana (UG) has submitted a supplementary budget request to government to underwrite critical maintenance, health and safety, and instructional needs, even as the new Vice-Chancellor Professor Ivelaw Griffith has begun to undertake a number of initiatives to improve the institution.

Residents of Plaisance and the surrounding areas on the East Coast are complaining about the condition of the railway embankment road and other streets in area, while calling on the relevant authorities to repair them.

A Guyanese man, Rajendra Ramrattan was on Wednesday sentenced to time served after being held at the JFK Airport in New York on April 6th  this year with  550.7 grammes of cocaine in a pair of jeans.

Republic Bank (Guyana) Ltd notched up an after-tax profit of $2.1b for the nine-month period which ended on June 30, 2016 – $188m higher than for the corresponding period last year.

The National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) yesterday announced that the bidding process for the rehabilitation of its pump at Trafalgar, West Berbice has been nullified.

Andrew Christopher Garnett of the Guyana Local Government Officers Union has been identified as the nominee from trade unions to be appointed to the Local Government Commission which is still to be operationalised even though several deadlines have passed.

There will be more forceful implementation of Trafficking in Persons (TIP) legislation in the country, Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan has said.

The PPP on Friday accused Region Four Chairperson Genevieve Allen of arbitrarily rejecting motions submitted by PPP/C and AFC councillors at the last statutory meeting of the Regional Democratic Council (RDC) on Thursday.

The Guyana Responsible Parenthood Association and the Young Women’s Christian Association on Tuesday launched their ‘Still I Rise: Reintegration of Teen Mothers in Education’ project.

The Bartica Town Council has initiated a business network with the aim of providing a catalyst for economic growth.

National footballer Rensford Coleridge, who was stabbed about his body less than two weeks ago, allegedly by his neighbour, has been released from the hospital even though he sustained significant lung damage.

An entertainment promoter was on Thursday granted $80,000 bail by a city magistrate after he denied wounding another man in a fight.

A row between the Linden Mayor and Town Council and a man who constructed a washroom at the Wisroc car park has been settled.

Public and private sector stakeholders on Tuesday engaged in consultations on institutional strengthening of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) and the need for adequate financing was raised.

Selina Ramotar, the woman who was stabbed several times by the father of her child, has been discharged from the hospital, a city court was told on Friday.

Thirty-five students were on Friday presented with certificates of participation after completing a one-week Annual Children’s Heritage Awareness Pro-gramme that was conducted by the National Trust of Guyana.