Guyana News

Despite significant strides in the fight against the spread of malaria, Vector Control Services faces several difficulties, ignorance by the general public about the disease as well as a shortage of equipment.

Murshid (leader) of the Guyana Islamic Trust (GIT) Haseeb Yusuf is well on his way to recovery at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), a family member said yesterday.

Head of the Presidential Secretariat and Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon on Wednesday announced that Cabinet has offered no objections to an MoU between Guyana and a Canadian firm to recycle solid waste.

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) awarded four young women awards valued at least $100,000 at its 2012/2013 Chief-of-Staff Awards.

APNU MP Joseph Harmon is questioning whether government is using funding approved by the National Assembly to move ahead with the Cheddi Jagan International Airport expansion, while saying the opposition is still to receive word from government on its concerns about the project.

Sterling Products Limited (SPL) commissioned its new state-of-the-art Yo’great Yogurt manufacturing plant last Friday and it is examining entry into two key Caribbean markets by the first quarter of next year.

Inadequate education and health provisions, as well a problematic market system were some of the issues heard by Minister within the Local Government Minister Norman Whittaker during a recent visit to communities in Region Ten.

The Gandhi Youth Organization on Woolford Avenue on Tuesday held a satsangh to commemorate its 60th anniversary.

Months of wrangling by the political parties over who was to blame for the threat of blacklisting ended tonight with the opposition voting in Parliament against the anti-money laundering bill.

Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee was today admitted to the Woodlands Hospital.

The opposition this afternoon voted against the reading of a petition in the name of the Private Sector Commission (PSC) urging favourable consideration of the anti-money laundering bill.

A Partnership for National Unity today condemned President Donald Ramotar’s decision to ignore one of the four local government bills which seeks to remove certain functions from the Minister of Local Government.

The police say they are investigating a fatal accident that occurred at about 1930h.

Three months after his party voted for the passage of four local government bills, President Donald Ramotar has assented to only three of them and government said it hoped time would resolve issues over the remaining one.

Guyana suffered complete outages in its international telecoms traffic and internet services yesterday for around five hours after offshore damage to the Suriname Guyana Submarine Cable System (SGSCS).

Laboratory tests on the Goldfinger-brand sweets, one of which was consumed by three children at White Water, North West District, resulting in them falling ill, have confirmed the presence of cocaine and the police are trying to determine how it ended up in the possession of a shop owner there.

The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) has slammed Agriculture Minister Dr Leslie Ramsammy’s response to its concerns over licensing Chinese vessels to fish in Guyana’s waters as an attempt to hoodwink the public.

A taxi driver was yesterday charged with throwing firecrackers at a group of people in Alexander Village.

A popular Essequibo Coast newspaper vendor was struck down by a car and killed yesterday as he was delivering newspapers in the Sparta area.

President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Guyana (ICAG) Ronald Alli says that he will be issuing a statement on the perceived conflict of interest situation created by the wife of the Minister of Finance being in her position at the Audit Office.