Guyana News

More than 150 families along the Soesdyke-Linden Highway are benefitting from potable water for the first time, GINA said.

Attorney General Basil Williams on Friday said that the purchase of law books by the previous government for the personal use of former attorney general Anil Nandlall constituted a criminal act which might engage the attention of the police.

Parents of the Richmond Hill Primary School in Leguan say that a shortage of teachers at the school is causing their children to be deprived of a proper education.

(Reuters) – Spinners Nathan Lyon and Adam Zampa tore through the West Indies batting line-up to set up a dominant Australian victory by six wickets in the second match of a triangular one-day international series in Guyana today.

The government today expressed alarm at the lobbing of a grenade outside of Kaieteur News yesterday and expressed solidarity with the newspaper.

Five years after BK International had been granted contracts to drill three wells worth $252 million for the Guyana Water Inc (GWI), only one has been completed raising questions about the selection of the contractor and why there was no termination of the arrangement.

Photos by Joanna Dhanraj   Spring Garden is one of the many villages situated on the Essequibo Coast.

Under the PPP/C’s rule, the Mahaica, Mahaicony, Abary-Agricultural Deve-lopment Authority (MMA-ADA) issued rent-free leases for periods up to 99 years at the behest of the president, an audit of its operations has found.

Eusi Kwayana had an active role in Guyana’s politics for many decades, beginning in the colonial period of the 1940s, and continuing until he retired to California a few years ago.

If the launch of Directory.gy last month was not exciting enough, local IT solutions company Intellect Storm (IS) is now one of five winners of the PitchIT Caribbean Challenge, which wrapped up on yesterday in Montego Bay, Jamaica.

Over the period 2011 to May 2015, the National Communications Network (NCN) paid in excess of $28 million to 35 persons employed at the then Office of the President (OP) to monitor, analyse and report on the content of media reports.

A candidate has been identified to serve as the Director of the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), Attorney-General Basil Williams revealed on Friday.

Shellon Nikita Beckles who was held at the JFK Airport in New York after disembarking a CAL flight on November 22, last year was last month sentenced to time served for swallowing 40 pellets containing 513.2 grammes of cocaine.

A biker died just before midnight yesterday after the CBR motorcycle he was riding collided with a car on the Amelia’s Ward Public Road, Linden.

An unlicensed motorcyclist died early yesterday morning, less than two days before he would have celebrated his birthday, after he reportedly lost control of the motorcycle he was riding and slammed into a lorry before hitting a light pole.

An elderly man on Thursday afternoon sustained minor burns about his body when a fire of unknown origin completely destroyed his Enmore, East Coast Demerara house leaving millions in losses.

Aimed at highlighting events in the community, the recently launched Radio Lethem 95.1 FM, would not be airing political programmes.

The challenges, though many, have not stopped the young minds behind Intellect Storm (IS), a local IT solutions company, from trying to change how Guyanese access country-specific information with the launch of their mobile software application Directory.gy.

The Guyana Hemp Association is on a mission to change the perception of hemp in Guyana as it believes that large scale production of the plant is the solution to Guyana’s impoverishment.

Attorney Gem Sanford-Johnson is the new president of the Guyana Bar Association (GBA) for the period 2016 – 2017, succeeding Attorney Christopher Ram who did not seek reelection.