Guyana News

The Mahaica, Mahaicony, Abary-Agricultural Development Authority (MMA-ADA) is owed $35 million in rent and may be unable to recover the sum due to poor management, a forensic audit into the entity has found.

The Central Islamic Organisation of Guyana (CIOG)  yesterday notified all Muslims that the crescent for Ramadan has not been sighted; therefore fasting begins tomorrow, June 7th 2016.

Repeat scammer Gopaul Tiwari was last week sentenced to 54 months in prison after he changed his plea to guilty on charges of uttering forged documentation, fraudulent conversion and conspiracy to commit a felony.

Attorney General Basil Williams said on Friday that the government has given the PPP/C sufficient chances to sort out the controversial Red House lease agreement and as such the appropriate action can be taken at any time.

The police in E Division are investigating a shooting incident which occurred about 09:00h yesterday at Moblissa, Linden Highway in which Cicel Todd, 56, a cash crop farmer of Moblissa was injured.

Onika Luke, the 16-year-old waitress who was shot to her chin two Saturdays ago, has been transferred to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) and is awaiting another surgery after the bullet that was lodged in her throat moved.

Shawn Adams, the New Amsterdam Hospital porter who was discovered dead in his yard last week died as a result of drowning, an autopsy has revealed.

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.