Guyana News

Government’s Chief Whip Gail Teixeira and main opposition APNU executive member Joseph Harmon will today decide on a date for talks on amendments to the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill before it is read for a second time.

Through grant assistance from the Grassroots Human Security Project (GGP), Japan is providing a grant of US$104,236 to the New Amsterdam Special Need for Life Foundation for the construction of a sign language school to assist hearing-impaired persons in Region 6.

General Manager of Air Services Limited (ASL) Annette Arjoon-Martins yesterday assured that passengers were not jeopardised when one of the company’s Britten Norman Islander’s door opened up during a flight to Kamarang on Monday.

Guyana Police Force spokesman Ivelaw Whittaker says that another person was arrested in connection with the murder of Donna Taylor, who was found dead with her throat slit in her backyard at Agricola last month.

Two communities in Port Kaituma were without electricity up to yesterday after a large generator used to supply power stopped working when the power company ran out of filters.

A joint workshop for magistrates and state and police prosecutors attached to the DPP’s Chambers was held on February 8, 2014 at the Guyana Police Force Officers’ Training Centre.

The body of an unidentified East Indian man was yesterday found in a trench outside of the John Fernandes Limited terminal on Mandela Avenue.

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) has announced a programme of activities in March to observe the death anniversaries of late former Presidents, Dr Cheddi Jagan and Janet Jagan.

Minister of Local Government and Regional Development, Norman Whittaker along with a team of officers on February 28, visited the three municipalities of Region 6 to meet with their respective councils on the projects proposed in their respective 2014 budget estimates.

An $8.5M health post was recently commissioned in Maikwak, Region 8 by Minister of Local Government and Regional Development Norman Whittaker.

A Wakenaam man was on Monday placed on $10,000 bail by Magistrate Sunil Scarce over an abusive language charge.

The United States is looking forward to “tangible progress” here on narcotics investigations, prosecution and extraditions, the annual report from the US State Department on the drug trade says.

The screams of a terrified young girl pierced the early morning silence of Goed Fortuin, West Bank Demerara as she witnessed the brutal stabbing of her mother by her father, who subsequently hanged himself.

Working People’s Alliance (WPA) members are criticising main opposition coalition APNU over its reactive stance on the anti-money laundering amendment bill and party co-leader Dr Clive Thomas has proposed that the passage of “effective” legislation should be linked to clear and consistent demands.

A new policy being implemented by the Local Government Ministry may see Regional Executive Officers (REOs) losing percentages of their gratuity benefits where their performances are not up to scratch.

The prime minister’s son was yesterday granted bail after he was charged with assaulting and threatening his sister-in-law.

PPP/C Chief Whip  Gail Teixeira says that government did not follow through on its agreement to names its nominees to the long-delayed Public Procurement Commission (PPC) because the AFC failed to hold up its end of a bargain struck two weeks ago.

Protesting police harassment and demanding justice, the father of the young girl who was hit down allegedly by a policeman’s car in 2012, held a one-man protest outside Police Headquarters, Eve Leary yesterday.

A burglar who was caught red-handed was yesterday sentenced to a year in prison after he admitted to stealing $20,000 worth of electronic equipment from a Mayor and City Council (M&CC) worker.

Reports are that the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) driver who was involved in the hit and run accident which took the life of Claude McPherson turned himself over to the police yesterday.