Guyana News

The Private Sector Commission (PSC) is currently seeking legal advice on whether City Hall has the right to implement a $25,000 container tax which the city council is enforcing, even as it awaits a meeting to discuss the issue.

The opposition PPP yesterday accused government of not naming all the ministerial advisors it has employed and said that they hope the error, deliberate or otherwise, is corrected soon.

The Ministry of Education has expressed sympathy to the family of Yogendra Persaud.

According to a Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) press release, over 100 ranks of the Guyana Police Force were allocated house lots in Kildonan/Chesney and Number 76 and 77 villages yesterday at prices ranging from $92,000 to $300,000.

The Tourism and Hospitality Association of Guyana (THAG) says it is astonished at government’s reported plan to shift the tourism portfolio  to the Minister of Business and  it charged that APNU+AFC’s manifesto commitments remain “largely undelivered”.

Cabinet has granted its no-objection for  four  representatives from within the Ministry of Public Security to attend a training session hosted by the International Criminal Police Organisation (INTERPOL).

New GPC and the International Pharmaceutical Agency (IPA) were among companies getting Cabinet’s no- objections for contracts to supply the health sector.

A third man was yesterday charged in relation to what police have said was a staged robbery involving RK security guards outside the Demerara Bank branch at Le Ressouvenir, East Coast Demerara last month.

The police yesterday continued their hunt for an individual who it is believed played a key role in last week’s grenade lobbing incident outside of Kaieteur News even as close to a dozen suspects and the vehicle suspected to have been used by the perpetrators remain in custody.

Two men were yesterday granted bail after denying a charge of armed robbery when they appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

Two months after solo charges of larceny and conspiracy to commit a multi-million dollar larceny were levelled against former Guyana Power and Light (GPL) director Carvil Duncan, he appeared before a city court yesterday, where the charges were amended.

A security guard was fined $40,000 after admitting that he threatened his wife and mother-in-law on Independence night; he denied an assault charge and was placed on $30,000 bail when he appeared in court yesterday.

As rain continues to fuel flooding in Region Five, officials are working around the clock to bring the situation under control.

Cabinet has approved financing to the value of $9.4M or the equivalent of US$44,750 for a team from the International Children’s Heart Foundation (Baby Heart) to perform cardiac operations on 18 children, a release from the Ministry of the Presidency said yesterday.

The city constabulary has begun investigations into the whereabouts of $8 million gifted to the Global Friendships Foundation from the Chinese Embassy to aid in the restoration and enhancement of George-town.

Gladwyn Brandis, the South Ruimveldt taxi driver who was found unconscious in Sophia after being badly beaten and robbed in a reported carjacking, has regained consciousness and is recuperating at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

After misleading the court by claiming he was a juvenile, a Lodge Housing Scheme teen was on Wednesday remanded to prison on a charge of armed robbery.

A technical team from the Ministry of Public Infrastructure (MPI) will be sent to Barabina, Region One to assess the condition of the road after it was highlighted that it had returned to its deplorable condition mere weeks after being rehabilitated.

Drivers of vehicles traversing the Railway Embankment road on the East Coast Demerara are calling on the authorities to fill the many potholes on the roadway.

Post-Cabinet press briefings which have not been held for many weeks now since controversy brewed around Minister of State, Joseph Harmon are to resume next week, President David Granger said today.