Guyana News

Acting Chief Justice Ian Chang has overturned the dismissal of Chief Co-operative Development Officer Kareem Abdul-Jabar, after finding that the Public Service Commission (PSC) and the Ministry of Labour found him guilty of breaches of the public service disciplinary code even before giving him a chance to respond to the charges.

The man who was brought to the Accident and Emergency Unit of the Georgetown on Thursday after being involved in a motor vehicle accident and who succumbed the following day in the High Dependency Unit  has been identified by relatives as Travis Wilson.

Police yesterday discovered a field at Hararuni, Upper Demerara River with marijuana plants and

On Thursday last the police arrested a total of 13 men during cordon and search operations in the city.

The University of Guyana’s Faculty of Natural Sciences, in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, is hosting its first international research conference on sustainable development from August 12 to August 14, 2013, at the Guyana International Conference Centre (GICC), Liliendaal and at the Education Lecture Theatre (ELT), University of Guyana, Turkeyen.

The long awaited multimillion dollar Hugo Chavez Centre for Rehabilitation and Reintegration located at Onverwagt, West Coast Berbice, was opened yesterday and is expected to provide services to nearly 200 persons.

AFC leader Khemraj Ramjattan yesterday dubbed Sithe Global’s decision to walk from the Amaila Falls Hydropower Project (AFHP) a “huge disappointment,” while warning of the implications for future investment.

Forty-six-year-old Roxanne Alkins, up until recently a cook in a Puruni Backdam mining camp, is seeking justice after she was assaulted by a co-worker whose sexual advances she turned down.

At about 0930h. yesterday, the police searched a building at King Edward Street, Albouystown, where two unregistered motorcycles, suspected to have been smuggled into the country via Lethem, were found.

The police today said that up to the end of July this year, there had been 72 murders and 61 deaths on the roads.

Sithe Global yesterday made good on its threat to exit the Amaila Falls Hydro project over the lack of political consensus on the venture but President Donald Ramotar last night vowed to continue working to make the nearly US$900 million project a reality.

Chief spokesman on economics and finance for the main opposition, APNU, Carl Greenidge says the government failed to persuade legislators on the merits of the Amaila hydro project after prospective developer Sithe Global set the condition of political consensus for continuing with it.

The AFC says that its decision to support the Hydro Electric Power (Amendment) Bill and the debt ceiling motion for the Amaila Falls Hydropower Project (AFHP) was intended to give “a new lease on life” to the venture, which has since lost sponsors Sithe Global.

A woman was yesterday arrested during an alleged attempt to mail cocaine to Canada.

Charles Anthony Woolford, who is accused of killing his wife after an argument, will have to face a new trial after a jury failed to agree on a verdict yesterday.

Scores of indigenous people protested outside the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs yesterday calling for a revision of the 2006 Amerindian Act and for their rights to be respected even as government supporters said that much has been done to advance the rights of Amerindians.

A petition calling for revision of the 2006 Amerindian Act was launched on Thursday, with activists proposing several changes to the legislation, including “recognition of rights to ancestral land, territories and resources.”

Several Amerindian vendors, who ply their trade outside of the Amerindian Residence on Princes Street, say they are being targeted for removal because of their participation in a protest on Wednesday outside of Parliament Building.

The shortlist for the 2012 Guyana Prize for Literature, due to be announced within the next two weeks, will not include entrants for the regional award, which has been suspended because of a lack of funding.

The Audit Office will investigate discrepancies flagged in Region 10’s accounts, including overpayments to contractors that have led to a call for the sacking of the region’s Senior Superintendent of Works Patrice Johnson.