Guyana News

Shots were yesterday fired at a police vehicle while it was traversing  James Street in Albouystown.

City Councillors from the PPP/C and Team Legacy have criticised the monopolising of the seats on the city’s key Finance Committee by the governing APNU+AFC.

Over a thousand children from various youth clubs in the different police divisions came out in support of the inaugural ‘career day’ for police youth groups at the Police Sports Ground on Saturday.

New Local Boards of Guardians have been installed in Anna Regina and Bartica with a charge to ensure greater emphasis on supporting families.

President David Granger, Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo and Ministers of the APNU+AFC Government on Thursday discussed inclusive democracy and the functioning of coalitions with visiting UK MPs.

Negotiations with BK International for a settlement on government’s termination of its management contract for the Haags Bosch landfill are ongoing and Cabinet will have to approve any settlement, the Ministry of Legal Affairs has said.

With the financial support of local contractors, eight potable water wells will be drilled in the drought-hit Region Nine communities of Wowetta, Rupertee, Aranaputa, Kwaimatta, Marcanata, Shulinab, Potarinau and Kumu.

(AFC) Key leaders of the Alliance For Change today attended a leadership retreat as part of an ongoing effort to review the party’s performance and to discuss a number of issues of concern to the party.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Under-fire West Indies Cricket Board president, Dave Cameron, has pushed back on recent widespread criticism of his leadership, and says he has always acted in the best interest of West Indies cricket.

Guyana faces a housing crisis and has a housing deficit of 20,000 units for low-income families, according to an Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) sponsored study.

Montrose on the East Coast Demerara is home to approximately 1,500 residents.

The clerks for the three new towns are currently temporary appointments and permanent appointments will be made in consultation with the town councils, Minister of Communities Ronald Bulkan has said.

A member of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) lost her life early yesterday morning when she was struck down by a car on Sheriff Street.

A businessman was abducted from his Windsor Forest, West Coast Demerara (WCD) home yesterday morning but freed about an hour after when his captors realised that they had the wrong man.

Officials of the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) have not been able to interview Winston Brassington in connection with the findings of a forensic audit into the management of government’s holding company, National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL), which remains under investigation.

Stricken with poliomyelitis while still a toddler and confined to a wheelchair for the past 20-odd years, 57-year-old Pamela London’s life has been difficult, but domestic violence, ridicule and poverty have made it harsh and unfair on all fronts.

In light of the surfacing of a photograph of a mother breastfeeding her newborn under a bed in the maternal ward of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) last week, Public Health Minister Dr.

Guyanese singer, Mark Ferdinand who was held in New York in February, 2015 on a cocaine charge spent seven months in jail before being released after a court agreed that he be sentenced to time served.

Preparations are moving ahead in a New York court for the sentencing on April 25 of Guyana-born businessman Ed Ahmad for mortgage fraud conspiracy.

The three shortlisted Guyanese candidates for the vacant post of University of Guyana Vice-Chancellor are Professor Rory Fraser, Professor Stanford Griffith and Dr Ivelaw Griffith.