Guyana News

The Berbice Bridge Company Inc (BBCI) has written to the National Insurance Scheme requesting that the NIS give its views on whether to accept the recent Government of Guyana proposal to reduce the bridge toll without further negotiations by Tuesday.

A mother died on Saturday night at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corpora-tion (GPHC) almost two weeks after she had given birth to a baby girl.

With gold smuggling rampant, the Guyana government might reopen the Curaçao gold heist investigation after it studies a report on the three-year-old incident where over 450 pounds of gold was stolen from a Guyana-registered vessel.

A government approved river taxi service across the Berbice River will commence today even as government and the Berbice Bridge Company Inc (BBCI) remain in talks to reduce the tolls to cross the bridge.

Director of Nursing Services at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) Collene Hicks is back on the job bringing an end to a months-long feud with the administration of the medical institution.

After months and repeated callings, the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) is still to appoint a temporary judge to consider the request by Justice William Ramlall for constitutional redress for the deduction of millions in income tax from his salary.

The Cumming’s Lodge Secondary School guard who was shot in the head by a stray bullet intended for another on September 10 died at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) Friday afternoon and his family is determined to secure justice.

  Government will not interfere in the work of the Guyana National Broadcasting Authority (GNBA) board, Minister of State Joseph Harmon has assured.

Ragesh Ragbeer is calling on the public for assistance after being left paralysed from the waist down following an accident some five months ago.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – Pope Francis met Cuba’s revolutionary leader Fidel Castro on Sunday hours after warning Cubans to beware the dangers of ideology and the lure of selfishness as their country enters a new era of closer ties with the United States.

OSLO, (Reuters) – The number of carbon pricing schemes worldwide has almost doubled since 2012 but most taxes or markets have prices too low to prevent damaging global warming, the World Bank said on Sunday.

Turning waste to energy is one of the areas being explored as plans begin to pilot a model green economy at Bartica in Region Seven.

Story and photos by Mariah Lall and Arian Browne   Nestled on white, sandy hills and surrounded by contrasting flowing black water, the village of Santa Mission is the perfect example of how beautiful Guyana is.

Chief Executive Officer of Professional Guard Service (PGS) Dougal Kirkpatrick died yesterday morning at the St Joseph Mercy Hospital less than a day after he was admitted based on the advice of his doctor.

Frederick Samuels, the man who fatally stabbed a policeman and then took his own life last Friday, was known to be mentally unstable and a drug addict, family members said last evening.

As frustrations continue to rise in the rice industry over money owed to rice farmers, Minister of Finance Winston Jordan has reiterated that millers have been paid for rice shipped to Venezuela.

As a mother and wife it became excruciating for Naomi (not her real name) to watch her husband turn to alcohol for solace while neglecting the people he loved.

Under the theme ‘Foster-ing National Pride, Advancing Economic Progress,’ the 11th edition of the Berbice Exposition and Trade Fair commenced on Friday last amidst much pomp and ceremony.

School children, nurses, teachers and pensioners will travel free for one month starting tomorrow on the water taxis plying the Berbice River, Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo said.

At 93, Ismay Simpson is an exceptionally strong woman who still works every day as she has been doing all her life.