Guyana News

Climate change, one of the most pervasive environmental problems that has confronted human-kind, increases children’s vulnerability to hunger, malnutrition, water-borne diseases and other illnesses and threaten their basic rights.

Government is not expecting an answer to a request for a juridical settlement of the ongoing border controversy with Venezuela in the short term, according to President David Granger, who nonetheless is confident that United Nations (UN) Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is actively looking at the matter.

Members of the Disciplined Forces, along with all other categories of public servants, can look forward to some sort of bonus from government before the year ends, President David Granger said on Friday last.

A Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara man lost his life last evening after he crashed into a tree around Letter ‘T’ Estate, Mahaica-Berbice.

HOBART, Australia, CMC – Cricket Australia chief executive, James Sutherland, says he hopes West Indies cricket authorities “take on board” the recommendations of CARICOM’s Governance Review Panel.

PARIS, (Reuters) – French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius presented a landmark global climate accord on Saturday, a “historic” measure for transforming the world’s fossil fuel-driven economy within decades and turning the tide on global warming.

The disposal of state-owned properties by the National Industrial & Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL) to third parties by way of sale or otherwise did not appear to have a legal basis, according to the forensic audit of the government holding company.

Justice Navindra Singh yesterday ruled that the private criminal charge against former president Bharrat Jagdeo, filed in April this year by attorney Christopher Ram, did not disclose an offence and therefore the magistrate who heard the matter had no jurisdiction.

While maintaining renewed claims to the New River Triangle area, Suriname’s President Desi Bouterse says he wants dialogue with President David Granger on the issue, Surinamese newspaper de Ware Tijd has reported.

In wake of conflicting accounts of how two bandits were shot dead in South Ruimveldt by the police, President David Granger yesterday called for emphasis to be placed on capturing lawbreakers with the aim of gathering intelligence on the origin of weapons, gangs and the masterminds, even as he expressed concern about such incidents.

President David Granger is hopeful that come next year the rejected, UK-funded Security Sector Reform Action Plan will be given renewed life and become operational.

President David Granger yesterday said that the audits of state entities that are being conducted are comprehensive and are being painstakingly done to ensure all evidence is accumulated.

Chief of Party for the USAID Advancing Partnerships and Communities (APC) Folami Harris said yesterday that she believes Guyana is ready to take up the reins of fully providing HIV treatment, care and support as the US-funded PEPFAR programme, which has been in effect here for ten years, phases out.

Outgoing acting Chief Justice Ian Chang has adjourned the challenges brought by former presidents Bharrat Jagdeo and Donald Ramotar to the law enacted to cap their benefits as former heads of state.

A 12-member jury yesterday convicted Murchy Noorhan for engaging in sexual activities with a family member who was also a minor.

The Mayor and City Council in collaboration with Ministry of Public Infrastructure will soon be implementing a new queue system at all bus parks in Georgetown to reduce the daily chaos and congestion.

Students of the newly-certified Air Services Limited (ASL) Aeronautical Engineering School are undergoing training under the supervision of Caribbean Airlines (CAL) to enhance their knowledge of the workings of large pressurised planes.

Four men appeared in the Whim Magistrate’s Court charged in connection with the assault and attempted robbery of a Liverpool Village grocery owner and were refused bail.

A Werk-en-Rust youth has been ordered to reimburse his friend $50,000 for a medical bill after a cuff to the face he inflicted fractured a bone under the man’s right eye.

Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute (CARDI) scientists are presently in Guyana networking with stakeholders involved in the European Union (EU)-financed four-year “Coconut Industry Development for the Caribbean” project.