Guyana News

Suriname airline Fly Always N.V. is seeking to begin scheduled services here from February 1, 2016.

Government’s holding company NICIL is under no duty to deposit its revenue into the Consolidated Fund and Article 216 of the Constitution does not apply to it, according to advice given to NICIL last year as the public corporation faced a forensic audit.

After years of infighting during the last administration, the two new top officials in Region Eight (Potaro-Siparuni) have pledged to cooperate to tackle the many issues affecting the vast hinterland region and anticipate a budget of $4 billion this year to advance development projects.

The MMA-ADA Scheme has served notice of its intention to cancel a series of leases including one for 49.759 acres held by the Regional Democratic Council of Region Five.

Residents of East Street are appealing to the authorities to discontinue the paid parking lot recently set up by the city and for the removal of the steel barricades that were erected.

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) on Saturday relaunched its ‘Mobile Fairs’ as part of its plans to take its products and services to customers across the country.

President David Granger on Friday presented two 30-seater buses for school children to the Region Five, Regional Democratic Council (RDC) and questions were raised at the absence of Regional Chairman Vickchand Ramphal but he said he was not invited.

Denzel Wilson, who is accused of robbing an unsuspecting man of his motorbike when he made an unplanned stop at Mon Repos, was on Thursday remanded to prison.

Pledging to continue its corporate social programmes, Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited on Friday announced that it has partnered with the non-governmental organisation Women Across Differences (WAD) to help tackle the issue of teenage pregnancy here.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – World tennis was rocked on Monday by allegations that the game’s authorities have failed to deal with widespread match-fixing, just as the Australian Open, the first Grand Slam tournament of the year, kicked off in Melbourne.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – Guyana Jaguars defeated CCC Marooners by five wickets in their final round of the Regional Super50 at Warner Park here today.

About 0010h. today, the police say that Surendra Nauth, 29 years; and his brother-in-law Totaram Bhola, 25 years, both of Albion Front, Corentyne, were involved in an argument at Williamsburg, Corentyne, with a man who had allegedly slashed a tyre of their motor vehicle.

The Traffic Department of the Guyana Police Force has completed its investigations into the high speed chase on December 30 last that ended in the deaths of three persons, including army intelligence officer Robert Pyle, according to Traffic Chief Dion Moore, who has signalled that legal advice is now being sought.

There is an air of quiet. Most houses are closed; their occupants are off at work and school.

The Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), the entity tied directly to oversight of the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) and which is required to be operational under the anti-money laundering legislation, has been without a director since the end of last year.

Two teenage girls, one a 13-year-old who gave birth nine days ago and another a 12-year-old who is five months pregnant are presently receiving medical treatment after being removed from the Region 1 backdam by Members of the Guyana Women Miners Organisation (GWMO).

Thousands of acres of paddy across Regions two, three, five and six are under threat due to a lack of adequate water and full blown water rationing is on the agenda if the situation worsens.

The first sixteen days of 2016 recorded ten confirmed murder cases but because of the brutal and well-planned nature of some of those crimes and the fact that most occurred in one police division, it appeared as though that number had surpassed the total recorded for the same period last year.

Two youths, including a former murder accused, were on Friday charged with the murder of Anita Baichan, who burned to death in her home after it was set on fire by bandits two weeks ago.

Person’s complaining about the Guyana Election Commission’s Local Government Election (LGE) education programme are “seeking to whitewash their own deficiencies,” according to chairman of the election management body Dr Steve Surujbally.