Guyana News

Almost four months have passed since the launching of the Hinterland Employment Youth Service (HEYS) programme and the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs is determined to extend it to an additional 100 villages after the 2016 budget allocations are made.

If elected to the Georgetown Mayor and City Council (M&CC), Team Benschop is promising city vendors that under its tenure at there will be “no more big stick approach.”

Discussions on the way forward regarding the controversial Red House lease deal will continue shortly, according to Attorney General Basil Williams who says that he would not want to reveal too much now.

By Derry Etkins On December 2, 2015,   the Tina Insanally Foundation (TIF) hosted a concert in the Savannah Suite at the Pegasus Hotel.

The Tourism and Hospitality Association of Guyana (THAG) yesterday announced the winners of the 2015 THAG Essay Competition.

The administrator of Uncle Eddie’s Home yesterday voiced her dissatisfaction over city contractors’ dumping of slush from a recent cleaning exercise on the premises, without permission.

Pastor Rohit Deonarine, who was chopped along with his wife Nirmala Deonarine during a robbery on Friday evening, says he believes their attackers were known to them.

Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) and the Institute of Applied Science and Technology (IAST) on Friday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that will see collaboration in improving water quality and supply.

MUMBAI, India, CMC – Indian business mogul Vijay Mallya says he is “studying the CPL economics” but has denied suggestions he is on the verge of purchasing Caribbean Premier League franchise Barbados Tridents.

Members of Cabinet as well as Non-Cabinet Ministers, today, met at the Ministry of the Presidency to iron out their 2016 Ministerial work programmes, which will inform the finalising of the National Budget, a release from the Ministry of the Presidency said this evening.

President David Granger yesterday presented the keys to two 30-seater buses for school children to the Region Five, Regional Democratic Council (RDC).

(Trinidad Guardian) In a move expected to shake up the foreign used car industry, Trade Minister Paula Gopee-Scoon yesterday announced a new policy which bars the importation of gasoline-powered vehicles more than four years old.

VIENNA/DUBAI, (Reuters) – Iran emerged from years of economic isolation on Saturday when the U.N.

Three more persons were yesterday charged over their alleged involvement in the murder of British teen Dominic Bernard.

Minister of Natural Resources Raphael Trotman yesterday announced that he had instructed that additional lands be released to small miners.

The Commercial and Land registries must be fully computerised as part of a wider modernisation process to protect documents from flood, fire and tampering, according to President David Granger, who yesterday also called for updated copyright laws to protect the creative community.

By Dreylan Johnson A pastor and his wife were both chopped last evening when they were attacked by bandits at their Foulis, East Coast Demerara home.

Jermaine Maynard was yesterday afternoon handed down an 88-year sentence by Justice Navindra Singh at the High Court in Georgetown, after a jury found him guilty of murdering his former girlfriend Carlisa Matthews.

The husband of Hafeeza Rohoman, the Helena, Mahaica woman found floating in a trench on Sunday, has confessed to the crime, according to Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum.

The Stena Carron drillship is on its way to Guyana where it is expected to drill several wells for US oil company ExxonMobil in the coming weeks.