Guyana News

Junior Social Protection Minister Simona Broomes yesterday vowed to end a long running dispute between management and workers of the Chinese company Bosai Minerals Guyana on the calculation of wages and salaries paid.

President David Granger is not worried by the recent strengthening of bilateral ties between Venezuela and several Caribbean countries.

The management of the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) has met with the Berbice Bridge Company Inc (BBCI) on the call by the government for the lowering of the Berbice Bridge tolls but both sides are mum on the content of their discussions.

A City Council worker was yesterday remanded to prison on gun and ammunition possession charges after making an appearance before a city court.

The Indian Action (formerly Arrival) Committee (IAC) will be collaborating with the Cancer Institute of Guyana and Texilla American University (TAU) to host a Cancer Awareness and Health Fair on 31 October, 2015, in support of Cancer Awareness Month.

Republic Bank Guyana on Monday launched its eighth Youth Link Apprenticeship Programme, which will cater to 31 apprentices over the course of the next seven months.

First Lady Sandra Granger yesterday launched an entrepreneurial workshop for Blueberry Hill, Linden residents.

Minister of Social Protec-tion Volda Lawrence has assured that the government is working to significantly increase the Old Age Pension and better protect the country’s senior citizens.

A Guyhoc Park youth was yesterday placed on $150,000 bail after he denied assaulting a man.

Two new street sweepers will be deployed in the ongoing efforts to clean up the city.

An aviation security agent from a private company contracted by an airline was fired for stealing US currency from an outgoing passenger at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA).

At 0820h. today, the police say that Marc Angoy of Buzz Bee Dam, Craig, EBD, turned himself in to the police at Grove Police Station.

MONTREAL/CALGARY, (Reuters) – Canada’s Liberal leader Justin Trudeau rode a late surge to a stunning majority election victory yesterday toppling Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservatives with a promise of change and returning a touch of glamor, youth and charisma to Ottawa.

“…We are not going to take the salary increase. We are just not going to take it,” Leader of the Opposition Bharrat Jagdeo told Stabroek News yesterday just hours after General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party Clement Rohee had stated that the party was yet to made a decision on the issue.

A young farmer was yesterday afternoon discovered dead at his Good Hope, East Coast Demerara (ECD) home with injuries to his head and the police are treating the case as a suspected murder.

Ravindra Paremdass was yesterday sentenced to 57 years in jail after being found guilty of murdering another man after a row over a bicycle.

A Guyanese woman is expected to be jailed and later deported after she pleaded guilty in a US court last Friday to being involved in a scam that targeted Price Chopper supermarkets in the United States.

A Vreed-en-Hoop carpenter was killed on Sunday night after he was run over by a car along New Road, Vreed-en-Hoop, West Coast Demerara.

Head of National Industrial Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL) Winston Brassington has slammed as “premature,” a recent statement, purportedly made by Minister in the Ministry of Finance Jaipaul Sharma, that it has been recommended that he be criminally charged, given that a final report on the findings of a forensic audit into the agency is yet to be submitted.

A man is now dead and another hospitalised after a late night collision on the public road at Ogle, East Coast Demerara on Sunday.