Guyana News

Oral Health Month is being launched today with an Oral Health Fair and free dental treatment.

The Saraswati Vidya Niketan, on Friday, benefited from a donation of 284 books from the High Commission of India.

A statement from the Ministry of the Presidency follows: The Ministry of the Presidency refutes the deliberately misleading and malicious letter, which was carried in the Monday, October 31, 2016 edition of the Guyana Times, titled “Crime will be with us for the foreseeable future”, in which the author misquoted His Excellency President David Granger, in an attempt to create mischief in the society.

Leguan, Region Three residents, for the first time, are benefiting from asphaltic roads, GINA said.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – A top U.S. diplomat will travel to Venezuela today  to support talks between the government and the opposition meant to ease an escalating political standoff amid a worsening economic crisis.

Nearly 14 months after he took office, Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has reshuffled his Cabinet.

Friday’s sitting of the National Assembly will hear a motion in the name of PPP/C MP Irfaan Ali calling for an immediate forensic audit into the Georgetown City Council including the controversial parking meter project.

As of October 22, sugar production for the second crop was 70,574 tonnes, just over half of the revised target of 137,764 tonnes with just about six weeks grinding left and signalling a likely significant fall in output compared to last year.

It is suspected that arson was the cause of the fire that ravaged a building at Lot 101 Cummings Street on Saturday night, causing damage to three business places in the process, says Fire Chief Marlon Gentle.

On October 25, Roger Gautier was assaulted by a minibus driver following an accident on the East Bank Demerara and in full view of a Guyana Defence Force (GDF) rank, who sat by and watched the scenario unfold.

The Guyana Fire Service (GFS) will be upgrading the Mahdia, (Region Eight)  and Mabaruma (Region One) auxiliary fire services to full fire stations.

As government prepares this week to name a person to head the investigation into alleged drug procurement malpractices at the Ministry of Health, it is cognizant that persons making the allegations might not want to come forward with evidence.

A fire suspected to have been caused by unattended diyas that were lit on Saturday night in celebration of Diwali, resulted in a two-storey concrete house at Golden Grove on the East Bank of Demerara being destroyed.

The delinking of the immigration department from the Guyana Police Force was one of the recommendations made by the Disciplined Forces Com-mission (DFC), according to Minister of Citizenship Winston Felix, who says that this process needs to be carefully done and would take some time.

Two drivers are in police custody following a fatal accident at Annai, North Rupununi on Friday, according to Commander of ‘E’ division, Ravindradat Budhram.

In a bid to bring additional revenue to Linden, Mayor Carwyn Holland says the Town Council is currently exploring options to attract tourists from abroad.

The Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) is  continuing its investigation of Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of the Presidency (MOTP), Omar Shariff, Head of SOCU Sydney James said.

President David Granger yesterday morning joined the congregation of the Ebenezer Lutheran Church in New Amsterdam, East Berbice-Corentyne (Region Six) to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the World or ‘Reformation Sunday’.

Twenty-nine young adults have joined the Republic Bank Guyana Limited family with the launch of the company’s 9th annual Youth Link Apprenticeship programme on Friday at the Herdmanston Lodge.

  President David Granger, First Lady, Sandra Granger and matriarch of the Kayman Sankar family in Essequibo, Seraji Sankar on Saturday commissioned the Guyana Foundation Sunrise Centre at Zorg-En-Vlygt, Essequibo Coast which offers counselling and other services.