Guyana News

The Transport and Harbours Department (T&HD) of the Ministry of Public Infrastructure has launched an investigation into the operations at the Supenaam Stelling.

The People’s Progres-sive Party (PPP) is awaiting a report to the nation by President David Granger before commenting on the outcome of his meeting with Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro on Sunday in New York.

Coca Cola is bringing its iconic ‘Share a coke’ campaign to Guyana.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Suspended head coach Phil Simmons will know his fate within the next week, after he meets with a West Indies Cricket Board human resource panel to discuss his controversial comments.

Nearly 5,000 have crossed with Berbice ferry between September 21 and September 26, according to a statement from Minister of Public Infrastructure, David Patterson.

The Central Housing and Planning Authority ( CH&PA) says that it was informed that its Regional Housing Office, Region 6, located at the Regional Democratic Council Building, Vrymen’s Erven, New Amsterdam was broken into over the weekend of the 26th -27thSeptember 2015.

In his highly anticipated address to the United Nations General Assembly today, President David Granger focused exclusively on the border controversy with Venezuela charging that Caracas was trying to deny Guyana its birthright and calling on the UN to fulfil its pledge for collective security for small states.

Shalini Jewlall, 32 years, and her seven-year-old daughter of Strand, New Amsterdam, Berbice, were struck down by a motor cycle as they were crossing Main Street, New Amsterdam yesterday, the police said.

The Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (CMAG) has endorsed Guyana’s call for a judicial settlement of the Venezuela border controversy and has reiterated its full support of this country in the ongoing row.

Dipcon Engineering Services Limited yesterday agreed to start paying out over $5 million in severance it owes to 24 former employees by the end of next week even as complaints continue to be made against the company to the Occupational Safety and Health Department of the Ministry of Social Protection.

Many households in Linden will continue to experience inadequate supply or no potable water for an indefinite period; this is because the much hyped US$13.2 million Linden water treatment project has failed to meet expectations.

President of the Trans-parency Institute of Guyana Inc (TIGI) Calvin Bernard says the government should create a mechanism through which the public can meaningfully contribute to the Code of Conduct proposed for government ministers and public officials.

Guyanese Heeralall Sukdeo, who has been charged in the United States with attempting to smuggle 268 kilogrammes of cocaine in a shrimp shipment, was granted US$500,000 bail last Thursday after he pleaded not guilty for the second time to the charge.

Toucan Connections Incorporated, which recently shuttered its call centre operations in Linden and left some 84 women without jobs, had no records of the workers ever being employed with the company, according to Junior Social Protection Minister Simona Broomes, who says the government is exploring ways to assist those affected.

Amid complaints about the inefficiency of the City Treasurer’s Department the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) of Georgetown has decided to extend its amnesty to October 31, 2015.

The government and the Berbice Bridge Company Inc (BBCI) are yet to finalise any agreement that will lead to the reduction in tolls nearly one month after lower rates were promised.

The attorney for Chief Election Officer Keith Lowenfield yesterday maintained that the elections petition filed by the opposition PPP/C’s Ganga Persaud has no material facts and should be struck out, when arguments continued before acting Chief Justice Ian Chang.

Two men were yesterday remanded to prison on a charge that they robbed a pastor.

The minibus driver accused of killing an elderly man through dangerous driving in July was yesterday cleared of all charges after a city magistrate found him not guilty.

The driver of a car was arrested after he drove away from police and was later stopped and found with an unlicensed gun.