Guyana News

As she alleged wanton dismissal of contract workers, Opposition Chief Whip Gail Teixeira yesterday put government on notice that during next week’s consideration of the estimates of the 2016 Budget it will be grilled on the current number of contract employees.

An Ireland-based fraud company has been brought in to provide training and give expert advice to the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) and its director Dr.

Workers of the Wales Sugar Estate who were part of another protest march yesterday at Belle West, Canal No 2, West Bank Demerara as they keep up the struggle for government to rethink its decision to close the estate were joined by veteran trade unionist Lincoln Lewis, Head of the TUC.

Rain over the past few days has offered some relief to parts of the parched Rupununi but Regional Chairman Bryan Allicock says that impacts of the prolonged drought would continue to be felt in the next few months and some form of food aid would be necessary.

A father of four died during the early hours of yesterday when he lost control of the car he was driving and collided with a sand truck.

Minister of Social Protection, Volda Lawrence yesterday cited the allocation of $471m for child welfare along with plans for a $40m centre for domestic violence victims and a strategy to get many of the homeless off the street as evidence that this year’s budget caters amply for every stratum.

A re-evaluation of the University of Guyana (UG), its needs and strengths, is set to begin today when its Transformational Task Force (TTF) meets for the first time.

The adequacy of the government’s response to the mosquito-borne Zika virus became an issue of contention when the debate of the proposed national budget continued in the National Assembly on Tuesday evening.

…in wake of planned closure Three weeks after the announcement that the Wales Sugar Estate would be closed later this year, some workers are disappointed that no one from the government has visited to discuss an alternative and they want an independent examination of the condition of the estate.

The Ministry of Agriculture yesterday confirmed that several options including severance have been offered to Wales sugar estate workers in light of the closing of operations there by the end of the year.

Dhanraj Raghubir, the computer technician alleged to be behind a massive visa fraud, was yesterday arraigned on 45 more counts of fraudulent conversion.

A Brazilian national was on Tuesday afternoon found with his throat slit in a mining camp located in the Cuyuni district and one person is in police custody assisting with investigations.

The Opposition People’s Progressive Party/Civic says it is finding it difficult to accept that Speaker of the National Assembly Barton Scotland doesn’t grasp the importance of their objection to the use of green and yellow; the APNU+AFC coalition colours, on state property.

Walter Williams called ‘Wallie’, 25, is wanted by the police for questioning in relation to the murder of Dewaun Baksh at Greenwich Park, EBE, on 2016-01-01.

The general manager of a mining company, who allegedly threatened to kill his reputed wife, was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared before Magistrate Alex Moore at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Courts.

A second person has been detained for questioning into the murder of Corentyne businesswoman Su Di Wong, while investigators continue to hunt for a third man who is suspected to have transported the perpetrators to and from the scene.

Travis Anthony Crandon yesterday told the court how he saw murder accused Charles Henry, remove a shiny gun from his waist, before squeezing the trigger in the direction of Errol Lindo .

Three people were injured, one critically, following an explosion on board a ship docked at the Guyana National Shipping Company (GNSC) wharf yesterday afternoon.

More seniors are benefitting from the government’s increase of the old age pensions than from subsidies for electricity and water bills that had been instituted under the former government, APNU+AFC Member of Parliament Charrandass Persaud told the National Assembly on Monday.

PPP General Secretary Clement Rohee says efforts should be made to ensure that an inquest is quickly set up to probe the circumstances surrounding the deaths of army intelligence officer Robert Pyle and two others, who were killed during a bungled surveillance operation in December.