Guyana News

A United Nations rights committee is concerned at problems faced by Amerindian communities in obtaining land titles and has urged government to revise the Amerindian Act 2006 and other relevant laws with a view to ensuring that Amerindian rights to their lands, territories and resources are protected.

With “criminals testing the prowess of the new government,” RK Security Services Chairman Roshan Khan recommends that the various security services, military and police forces come together to chart a combined action plan to quell rising crime.

Commencing on October 5, 2015, InselAir has increased its flights from Georgetown to the islands of Aruba, Curacao and Bonaire (ABC) bringing the weekly total to six.

Minister of State Joseph Harmon yesterday met with a team from EON Reality, a global software service provider.

Career diplomat Cheryl Miles is currently taking steps to take up her post as Guyana ambassador to Venezuela, according to Minister of Governance Raphael Trotman who said yesterday that this should move faster after the UN concludes its current discussions with Caracas over the simmering border controversy between the two countries.

A team of officials from a Canadian university will be in Guyana next month to explore and finalise aspects of the Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) the government plans to set up, according to Minister of Governance Raphael Trotman.

In what seems to be a regular business, three police officers from the Ruimveldt station were yesterday afternoon seen selling fuel to fishermen at the koker at Versailles, West Bank Demerara.

Abundant self-interest drove the APNU+AFC government to raise the salaries of its ministers by as much as 50% and the widely-denounced move is devoid of political morality or savvy, political commentator Dr Henry Jeffrey says.

Keeping up a flurry of Caricom trips, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is to visit Antigua tomorrow and St Lucia on Saturday.

The Bank of Guyana yesterday unveiled its second commemorative stamp since its establishment in 1965, in celebration of its Golden Jubilee.

The Guyana Government is looking closely at a number of investment proposals which were received by a team of ministers who recently travelled to Canada to meet with Guyanese living there, according to Minister of Governance Raphael Trotman.

Murder accused Ravindra Paremdass yesterday testified that he had hit Roopram Jagdeo only after the man had physically assaulted and caused him actual bodily harm.

Lukeisha Clarke and Althea McPherson, the two women who sustained burns about their bodies after they were shocked by a live wire on Saturday are hoping that the matter won’t turn out to be another cold case since to date they haven’t heard a word about the perpetrator.

Despite being discharged a few weeks ago from the Georgetown Public Hospital, bedridden accident victim William Nurse remains at the hospital as he has no place to go.

An employee of a car wash situated on Mandela Avenue was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with committing armed robbery against a woman whose vehicle he’d washed days before.

A construction worker was yesterday fined $75,000 after he admitted stealing a Samsung Galaxy cellphone from a “wake house.”

Over the past two weeks residents of Bartica have been experiencing interruptions in the supply of electricity due to technical problems affecting the Generating Engines at the Bartica Power Generating Facility.

Seabob (shrimp) fishing resumed on October 5, after seven weeks of closure in keeping with protocols established between the Guyana Association of Trawler Owners and Seafood Processors (GATOSP) and the Ministry of Agriculture.

A disaster response training exercise being conducted by the Guyana Red Cross Society (GRSC) will benefit some 2,500 residents (500 families) in Regions 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5.

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carl Greenidge is representing Guyana at the Ministerial Meeting on food security and climate adaptation in Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in Milan, Italy from October 14 -16.