Guyana News

Two persons including an aircraft loader of Trans Guyana Airways were arrested on Sunday afternoon at the Ogle Airport after they allegedly attempted to smuggle less than two kilogrammes of marijuana onto an outgoing flight.

The Guyana Press Association (GPA) yesterday welcomed President David Granger’s declaration that the government won’t interfere in the state media.

The man who brutally stabbed waitress Michelle Drennon almost three weeks ago has contacted her family twice last week, offering compensation in order to settle the matter.

The newly formed council of the Bartica municipality is expecting to garner $64 million in revenue annually from various sources and services in Bartica.

The Guyana National Broadcasting Authority (GNBA) is working to ensure that an acceptable standard of broadcast is delivered to the public, Chairman Leonard Craig said last week.

Five months after the government’s plan to impose a ban on the importation of used tyres was announced in the national budget, several businessmen in the local used tyre industry have formed an association and started a petition opposing the ban.

Addressing the PNCR’s General Council meeting on Saturday, President David Granger told the gathering that his “biggest concern is to make Guyana safe for you and for your children.”

The Mayor and City Council last week piloted its solid waste recycling programme at two city schools—St Pius Primary and St Sidwell’s Primary.

Magistrate Judy Latchman ordered that a Cuban who appeared before her at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court last week having overstayed her time here, pay a fine of $30,000 or spend two weeks in prison, then be deported to her homeland.

Serious flooding was avoided after the Ministry of Public Infrastructure and City Hall took action to clear two culverts in Queenstown, Georgetown this morning, GINA said.

About 1415h. today, the police say that Rawle Adams, 45 years, of Mackenzie, Linden, was driving a motor car along the roadway at Bamia on the Soesdyke-Linden Highway, allegedly at a fast rate, when he lost control of the vehicle and crashed.

BANGALORE, India, CMC – Chris Gayle’s batting failures continued as Jamaica and West Indies teammate, Andre Russell, upstaged him with an electrifying cameo to fire Kolkata Knight Riders to an important win in the Indian Premier League here today.

United for the first time in decades, trade union leaders yesterday blasted the David Granger administration for its failure to keep several promises but Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo said that work is being done even as he urged that the criticism of government be fair.

As investigations into the Ramada Princess Casino robbery continue, police last night swooped on a house at Vreed-en-Hoop on the West Coast of Demerara and arrested a man who had over $900,000 in his possession.

Youth and women’s representatives yesterday blasted union leaders for not giving them opportunities at the leadership level and called for their inclusion and for succession planning.

A massive clean-up campaign was yesterday rolled out by the Mayor and City Council at the Stabroek Market square.

In response to attacks by political commentator and WPA activist, David Hinds, the Alliance for Change (AFC) yesterday said that it was  “neither opportunistic nor have we lost our political conviction”.

With approval granted by government, coupled with its signalled intent to pass the long-awaited telecommunications liberalisation legislation, the country’s two mobile carriers GTT and Digicel have announced that they will roll out 4G service in time for Guyana’s 50th Anniversary celebrations.

The Ministry of Public Infrastructure (MPI) yesterday said that it has completed over 30 percent of works on stands during its first week of management of the D’Urban Park Development Project.

Hundreds of workers from different unions across the country braved the weather to march together as a historic Labour Day saw the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Guyana  (FITUG) and the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) rally together for the first time in over two decades.