Guyana News

A series of further steps on addressing the border controversy between Guyana and Venezuela is to be proposed by Norman Girvan who is the personal representative of the UN Secretary General in the Good Offices process.

With talk about local government elections intensifying, activist Mark Benschop has reiterated that his party will be contesting and he will be running for the position of mayor.

In keeping with the commitment made by the previous speaker of the National Assembly Hari Narayen Ramkarran to invite the Speaker of the Surinamese Parliament, present Speaker Raphael Trotman has invited Dr.

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) today said that its investigators are seeking 10 rounds of 7.62 x 39mm that went missing from an army school at Tacama, Berbice.

Government is inviting expressions of interest (EOIs) from local and foreign parties to be a partner in the new Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB).

Critics and stakeholders are criticising the Guyana Sugar Corporation for a strategic plan they say falls short of addressing the poor state of cane fields.

Nine months after it advertised for 700 workers, Bai Shan Lin says it has hired some 400 persons and they have been deployed in the different areas of the company’s forest and wood processing operations around the country.

Government is advising persons not to enter the dilapidated First Federa-tion building located at Croal Street and Manget Place and for the tenants who occupy the building to vacate because it has been deemed unsafe and could collapse.

The bandit who was fatally shot by police on Friday at Dundee, Mahaicony, has been identified as 28-year-old Delon Hawker of Alness, Corentyne who, according to relatives, was on his way to Georgetown to secure an identification card.

A man lost a hand yesterday in a three-vehicle smash-up which occurred in Number 28 Village, West Coast Berbice at around 18:30 hrs.

President Donald Ramotar joined Housing Minister Irfaan Ali and a team from the ministry on Friday at the Uitvlugt/Leonora Estate Community Centre Complex where over 840 house lots were allocated at Zeelugt Phase 3 during the latest One Stop Shop exercise.

Republic Bank has announced the winners in its ‘Deal on Wheels Auto Financing Campaign 2013.’

ANSA McAl Trading Limited has announced that eight persons have won the new Samsung Galaxy Tab in its ‘Always on the go’ promotion.

Leave it to Robert Sylvester Kelly to tantalize the crowd with his musical foreplay.

Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited yesterday opened a $185m branch at Lethem.

It is unlikely that US oil company Anadarko will be able to continue any exploration work as Guyana and Venezuela begin to explore a process to address maritime delimitation following the recent arrest and subsequent release of the seismic survey vessel Teknik Perdana, according to a source within the Natural Resources and the Environment Ministry.

By Marcelle Thomas with photos by Arian Browne  Maybe it’s because every time it rains the village is flooded, that it got its name.

Four of the Guyanese found aboard a cargo vessel in Barbados with illegal drugs and a submachine gun yesterday made their first appearance before a magistrate on a total of ten charges.

Water tumbles over the ancient brownish-gray rocks of the Kumu falls in a never-ending white spray, splashing on the Portuguese-speaking tourists, swimming  in the clear, cold stream at the bottom.

Bosai Minerals Group has applied to start mining at Block 16, Kara Kara, north of Richmond Hill, in Linden, and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is facing serious questions over its conclusion that the activity does not warrant an environmental impact assessment (EIA) prior to the granting of an environmental permit.