Guyana News

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.

Crime Chief, Wendell Blanhum, is in Mexico City to get a first-hand look at its safe city programme.

The Guyana Water Incorporated is looking at ways to improve its emergency response system, GINA said.

Cabinet on Tuesday granted no-objections to a large number of contracts including one worth nearly a US$1m for the aviation sector and another for US$870,549 for textbooks.

The increase in select tolls for the Demerara Harbour Bridge is necessary to cushion the close to $400M a year government subsidy and to prepare commuters for a more modern facility, Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo said yesterday even as the Public Infrastructure Ministry and bridge company denied that a final decision had been made.

A forensic audit ordered by the APNU+AFC government of state broadcaster NCN found no justification for a costly decision to move  a transmission station from Sparendaam on the East Coast which later became an exclusive housing scheme for former President Bharrat Jagdeo and some of his ministers.

According to Chairman of National Parking Systems (NPS)  Irfan Cush, the Mayor and City Council will not have to contribute money towards the procurement of parking meters and will be receiving 20% of the annual gross revenue during the 49 years that the company has been contracted for.