Guyana News

At about 1535h yesterday, police say that Richard Alpin, 58 years, of Orealla, was driving a motor tractor down a hill when the vehicle toppled and pinned him.

Work on the US$18 million specialty hospital at Turkeyen is expected to commence soon as a consultancy contract has been awarded to a local company to ensure government gets “value for money” Attorney-General Anil Nandall says.

A miner was on Saturday stabbed to death at a mining camp in the interior.

The Coalition for the 1823 Parade Ground Monument yesterday held a ‘Remembrance Walk/ Freedom Walk’ in honour of the 1823 martyrs from Le Ressouvenir, East Coast Demerara as the group signalled its determination to build a monument to the martyrs at Parade Ground.

Jamaican dancehall artiste Mavado yesterday blamed the promoter of the Slingerz Summer Jam for his no-show at Saturday’s concert at Providence and slammed the arrangements made including a 19-hour flight from Jamaica to Guyana in a cramped small plane with no bathroom.

Dangerous driving is what eyewitnesses are saying was occurring prior to a Route 45 minibus (Main Street/Lamaha/GPHC) slamming into the fence of the Alpha Hotel along the East Bank Public Road in Agricola resulting in 17 persons being rushed to the hospital.

With recent revelations that the Skeldon sugar factory is costing an additional US$30 million for rehabilitation works, the union GAWU is demanding full disclosure of any and all budgetary support that the EU provided for the industry.

Two persons are suffering from head trauma after a head-on collision on the public road at Airy Hall, Mahaica at approximately 18:00 hrs yesterday.

Three years after acquiring large forest concessions here and exporting unprocessed logs, start-up logging company Vaitarna Holding Private Incorporated (VHPI) is yet to set up its promised wood processing facility.

Guyana will be exploring the prospect of exporting other goods to Venezuela during the visit of that country’s President Nicholas Maduro later this month, according to Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett.

Earlier this month, the Guyana Tourism Authority (GTA) welcomed over 300 visitors from Suriname and Holland at Moleson Creek, Region Six, after they disembarked the Canawaima ferry.

A plumber was remanded to prison on Monday after it was alleged that he had 55 grammes of cannabis in his possession.

The Sophia Training Centre two Fridays ago held its twenty-fourth graduation ceremony at the Carifesta Sports Complex for 94 students who completed its six-month training in several subject areas under the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports’ Youth Entrepreneurial Skills Training (YEST) programme.

In typical Jamaican fashion, reggae dance hall superstars Busy Signal and Konshens put on nothing short of electrifying performances Friday night at the Jamzone Regional Night.

By Jairo Rodrigues in Paramaribo, Suriname   Satin doll, Perdido, Deemwaee, Torus Africa, Blue Bussa, Bassledee… These are the songs that the Guyana National Steel Orchestra tapped out at their first performance since the opening of the Caribbean Festival of Arts in Paramaribo, Suriname on Friday.

Dr Louis Regis, noted West Indian academic, researcher and literary critic, in delivering a memorial lecture in honour of the late Guyanese poet Martin Wylde Carter on Wednesday at the Umana Yana, shared the view that in his examination of Carter’s poems he found him to be a liberal humanist, and that his poetry and political activism are all derived from this fact.

The Guyana Police Force and Police Wives Association in a simple ceremony two Thursdays ago closed another annual youth camp held at the Aurora Secondary School, Pomona, Essequibo Coast.

In the backdrop of a warning from the Guyana Government that its flag carrier status could be rescinded, a high-level team from Caribbean Airlines met over the weekend with government ministers here and its Chairman said that the current price structure would be reviewed.

As evening fell on Friday, thousands of spectators packed around Paramaribo’s Independence Square witnessed a grand display of arts and culture to open Carifesta XI.

Jamaican dancehall singer Mavado last night refused to take the stage at the Slingerz Summer Jam held at the National Stadium, Providence because of myriad problems including being transported to Guyana on a tiny plane that saw him getting wet by rain.