Guyana News

A La Penitence man maintained his innocence yesterday when he appeared in a city court charged with stealing almost $3 million in goods during two break-ins at an Industrial Site bond.

Route 56 (Rosignol-New Amsterdam) minibus operators yesterday appealed to the Public Infrastructure Ministers to put measures in place to mitigate their losses since the introduction of the Berbice River water taxi service.

Abuse of the Contingen-cies Fund needs to be nipped in the bud by putting concrete measures in place, former Auditor-General Anand Goolsarran says.

Five months after it was presented to Cabinet, a Code of Conduct for ministers is still to be finalised.

The European Union (EU) has inked an agreement to provide $75.7 million in funding for a new national advocacy project being spearheaded by local child rights non-governmental organisation ChildLinK.

Twenty-one students in Bartica, Region Seven, were yesterday presented with bicycles from the government as part of President David Granger’s ‘Buses, Boats and Bicycles’ initiative, which is aimed at ensuring that all of Guyana’s children are able to attend school.

The Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Guyana (FITUG) has sounded an alarm over ongoing criminal activities across the country, which it says warrants a national consultation.

Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) says workers contracted by it to conduct disconnections were attacked in the city in two separate cases this week.

The following statement was given by Alana Seebarran on Thursday to the police on the sequence of events leading up to the crash on December 30th on Carifesta Avenue that claimed three lives.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Batsman Leon Johnson and left-arm seamer Sheldon Cottrell have both been handed retainer contracts by the West Indies Cricket Board, despite not featuring for the regional side over the last year.

Staymon George and Aaron Wilfred Hing are wanted by the police for questioning in relation to the disappearance of British citizen Dominic Bernard, the police said this afternoon.

SYDNEY, Australia, CMC – Legendary former Australia Test captain Ian Chappell says he would support an international ban on West Indies batting star Chris Gayle for his controversial on-air flirtations with a female television reporter.

The Ministry of Public Health is closely monitoring the indigenous community of Baramita, Region One, after several cases of vomiting and diarrhoea were detected in the area, GINA said today.

Ambassador Jernej Videtič, Head of Delegation of the EU to Guyana and Omattie Madray, Managing Director of ChildLink today signed a grant contract to implement the project titled “Child Rights Alliance”.

The Guyana Water Inc today said that a disconnection team contracted by it was attacked twice and one of the workers severely injured.

The Private Sector Commission (PSC) today expressed concern over the reported search of the home of Commissioner General of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) Khurshid Sattaur by officials of the GRA.

The Private Sector Commission (PSC) today said that it is alarmed to learn that the State Assets Recovery Unit (SARU) is involved in a money laundering investigation of a major financial institution as per a headline in the Kaieteur News of Wednesday January 6, 2016.

At about 2045h. last night police ranks acting on information received went to an abandoned lot at Rose Hall, Corentyne, where they arrested escaped prisoner Neshan Jagmohan.

In a historic first, the National Assembly yesterday approved budget proposals of some constitutional agencies outside of the main budget presentation but the process was held up for hours as the two sides squabbled over who was responsible for answering questions on the Audit Office and Finance Minister Winston Jordan also faced heat for “cutting” figures for several agencies.

A Corentyne businessman is now dead after he was shot and chopped by two bandits who invaded his home on Wednesday night.