Guyana News

Agriculture spokesperson for the People’s Progressive Party and General Secretary of the Rice Producers Association Dharamkumar Seeraj is calling on the Agriculture Minister to enact concessions that would ease the financial burden faced by rice farmers and millers.

Nadira Persaud, the Norton Street woman who was in July charged with cannabis possession, was freed yesterday after a city magistrate found that no case had been made against her.

Minister of Finance Winston Jordan yesterday began consultations for Budget 2016.

The Government has requested that the Sitting of the National Assembly scheduled for November 12th, 2015, be postponed to enable the attendance of MPs at important conferences abroad.

Cabinet has given its approval for a tobacco control bill to be submitted to the National Assembly as government moves to bring an end to smoking in public places.

Declaring that the history of Guyana has been a contest between education and stagnation, President David Granger yesterday told the 2015 graduates of President College “there must be a second independence, one that frees us from dependency, frees us from discrimination, domination and the abuse of rights and our freedoms.”

A 17-year old mechanic is now dead after he lost control of a car while driving along the Lusignan Public Road on Wednesday night.

The newborn baby who fell off a cot at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation is in a serious but stable condition.

Two suspects are currently in police custody after the armed attack on a group of moneychangers on America Street on Tuesday night.

Restructuring and lack of financing are hampering Asian timber company, Bai Shan Lin Forest Development Inc.

This Toyota IST plunged into a ditch at Farm, East Bank Essequibo around 2 pm yesterday and the driver and another occupant escaped unhurt.

A Guyanese delegation headed by Minister of Foreign Affairs Carl Greenidge recently concluded a series of meetings in Barbados to deepen relations between the two countries.

A London-based Guyanese woman will be charged today with attempting to smuggle over three kilogrammes of cocaine in bottles of locally-produced rum onto a flight out of the country.

Ten persons lost their home when a fire gutted a Cummings Lodge house early yesterday morning.

Three key laws have been reproduced in braille to help visually-impaired citizens know their rights.

Almost two months after William Nurse and Lisa Khedoo were struck off a bicycle near Lamaha and East streets, Georgetown, the driver of the car that allegedly caused the accident has been charged.

The Probation and Social Services Department of the Ministry of Social Protection on Tuesday engaged its staff in an interactive workshop on improving the quality of service provided to citizens.

The St George’s Cathedral will be celebrating its 121st anniversary on Sunday.

A Leopold Street woman yesterday admitted to slashing her neighbour’s face after a row over stolen sanitary pads and panty liners.

Guyanese DJ Dwidth Ferguson has surrendered to law enforcement officials in Canada, Head of the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) James Singh has confirmed.