Guyana News

Plans are in train for the landscaping and setting up of various amenities on the foreshore/sea defence reserve between the Kitty Pump Station and the Round House behind the Pegasus Hotel.

The Ministry of Public Infrastructure is inviting proposals from power producers interested in designing and developing a generation system to produce electricity from renewable sources to power Bartica.

Gold declarations for 2015 amounted to 451,490 ounces, representing a 16.5% increase over 2014 figures with the two foreign large-scale gold companies that began operations in the latter half of the year being credited for the increase.

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) says that tomorrow, Tuesday, January 5, 2016, is the deadline for the submission of applications for approval of symbols to contest the upcoming Local Government Elections.

A son of the man who died in the horrific Carifesta Avenue crash on Wednesday believes his father would have been alive today if the soldier driving a speeding car had been careful.

The Ministry of Public Security on Thursday said an updated national drug strategy master plan will soon be released and on another front, it vowed to invest in the total eradication of trafficking in persons.

Life for 44-year-old Sandra Sookdass has been tough but her wish for the New Year is to finally find happiness and to own a home so she can be together with her children.

As it continues to examine alternative means of generating electricity, the Guyana Energy Agency (GEA) plans to install more solar powered, energy-efficient street lights this year.

Team Benschop says that thirty-one-year-old businessman Ronson Gray has joined it for the upcoming Local Government Elections, slated for March 18, 2016.

Investigations are being conducted into the circumstances surrounding the death of Anita Baichan, 49 years, of Hope, WCB, who perished in a fire at her home about 0230h.

Seven months after being elected to office, the APNU+AFC government has been able to fulfil and make progress on some of its pledges but it has also courted controversy on several issues and has been accused of being slow to take action.

Den Heuvel, on the East Bank Demerara, has a population of approximately 300 and is located just before Soesdyke.

A Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara family was sent into a state of shock on New Year’s Day after a carpenter was stabbed to death allegedly by his cousin.

Ten minutes into the New Year, a Crabwood Creek, Corentyne man was fatally stabbed by another man during a confrontation.

Returning home from Barbados to spend Christmas with his family for the first time in five years, a 22-year-old Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo (EBE) man was stabbed to death on New Year’s Day during an altercation with a group of men at a rum shop at Greenwich Park, EBE.

A 22-year-old Cane Grove man was robbed and badly beaten by a group of men on Friday evening while he was returning home from a ‘lime.’

Electricity utility, the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) company says that although it pays less for fuel at the moment, it has no surplus monies and its focus this year will be on fixing its equipment and not on lowering domestic power tariffs.

The Ministry of Public Health has received confirmation that a Guyanese patient who was hospitalised after displaying symptoms of swine flu has indeed been infected with the H1N1 virus which causes the disease.

Nearly three months after controversial salary increases for cabinet ministers were unveiled, the Working People’s Alliance (WPA) is still to issue a formal statement on it.

The National Assembly on Wednesday approved two financial papers totalling $9.6 billion dollars spent during the last PPP/C administration.