Guyana News

The driver involved in the Bushy Park, East Bank Essequibo accident that claimed one life, has regained consciousness after spending almost two weeks in the Intensive Care Unit at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

President David Granger today told Parliament that the country’s future depends on deeper social cohesion and political inclusiveness though he didn’t set out how this could be achieved.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s Senate voted today to put leftist President Dilma Rousseff on trial in a historic decision brought on by a deep recession and a corruption scandal that will now confront her successor, Vice President Michel Temer.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) yesterday urged government to strengthen the anti-money laundering framework saying that remaining        deficiencies heighten Guyana’s vulnerability to international banks culling banking relationships.

It has been months since the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) was last engaged by the Ministry of Education (MoE) and President of the union Mark Lyte stated that if the ministry does not treat with the union by the end of the month, it will consider taking “drastic” action.

An 18-year-old driver was yesterday charged with causing the death of Nerisa Spencer, the Buxton mother who died on April 28 after being struck down by a motor vehicle.

A woman was robbed of $5 million, which she withdrew from a bank for a relative just after mid-day yesterday and her husband is currently in police custody as it is suspected that he staged the robbery.

Professor Eon Nigel Harris was yesterday officially installed as the ninth Chancellor of the University of Guyana (UG) with government expressing hope that his presence there would see the establishment of a Petroleum Engineering faculty on campus.

Police have signalled that the owner of the house targeted during elections night unrest at Sophia last year along with two others will be charged with unlawful possession of  firearms and ammunition but their attorney Anil Nandlall says the timing is suspicious and they will fight the charges.

The Guyana Sugar Corporation Inc. (GuySuCo) yesterday said that it experienced a shortfall of 29.3% in this year’s first crop with actual production of 56, 825 tonnes compared with a budget of 80,270 tonnes.

One day before a planned opposition motion calling for the Walter Rodney Commission of Inquiry report to be tabled in the National Assembly, Attorney General Basil Williams yesterday presented the  document to the Speaker, Dr.

Several residents of ‘E’ Field Sophia are frustrated at two garbage trucks being parked on their street for more than a year, but when contacted yesterday, the manager of the disposal service promised to address the issue as quickly as possible.

A pensioner was beaten and robbed of a haversack containing $200,000 cash yesterday afternoon in the vicinity of the City Constabulary, Regent Street, Georgetown when he was attacked by a lone gunman.

A special meeting of the Mayor and City Council (M&CC)  is set for today to discuss a permanent solution for vendors who were removed from the Stabroek Market Square.

President David Granger on Mother’s Day cautioned against early pregnancy. At the time, he was handing over a $100,000 donation to the St John the Baptist Anglican Church in Bartica on behalf of the Ministry of the Presidency, to be used as ‘seed money’ for bursary awards for children who are successful at the recently sat National Grade Six Examination.

A former constable based at the Tactical Services Unit (TSU) was in court yesterday to answer to a simple larceny charge which alleged that he stole a pistol.

The first step in making Bartica a green town is dealing with the solid waste problem that has always plagued the community, according to Deputy Mayor Kamal Persaud.

An early morning fire, suspected to have been set by an occupant who is mentally unstable, gutted an Agricola, East Bank Demerara (EBD) house yesterday and the man was later arrested after he fled the scene.

Five of the six firefighters who were injured following Monday’s blaze at the Gafoor’s Houston Complex are now at home recovering while the family of the other is left to cover the cost of a much needed CT scan as the man remains a patient of the Male Surgical Ward at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

Commemorative $5,000 and $2,000 coins and a $50 bank note were yesterday launched at the Bank of Guyana (BOG) as part of the 5oth Independence Anniversary celebrations, GINA said.