Guyana News

The Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) held its first auto expo loan event at the Giftland Mall parking lot yesterday which saw the presence of many auto sales dealers and patrons.

Avinash Kuttai, a 37-year-old construction worker of School Road, Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara, was charged yesterday with possession of narcotics and sentenced to community service.

The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) today said that no member of staff from the Campbellville Health Centre experienced any adverse effects yesterday as a result of a syringe in a water dispenser bottle in the staff lunchroom.

-says strike legal and justified, gov’t to appeal By Abigail Headley In a comprehensive win for the GTU, Justice Sandil Kissoon yesterday ruled that the strike launched by the union for collective bargaining was legal and justified and therefore deductions cannot be made by the state from the salaries of striking teachers.

-injection triggered crisis A Corentyne father is pleading for answers after his daughter passed away at the New Amsterdan Public Hospital on Tuesday.

The Guyana Government says that Justice Sandil Kissoon’s ruling yesterday declaring the recent teachers strike as legal and preserving their pay overturns a salutary principle that guides industrial relations.

By Shuntel Glasgow A Bare Root family is mourning the loss of their son after he complained of dizziness, diarrhoea and vomiting.

A  crash last night along the Williamsburg Public Road has left two motorcyclists dead and a pillion rider critically injured with a fractured skull.

-likely struck by falling rocks The Police say they are investigating a mining site incident which occurred at about 23.57 hours on Thursday at a mining site located at Marudi Backdam, Deep South, Rupununi that resulted in the death of Peter Smith, a 55-year-old farmer of Brazil and Aishalton Village.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued an advisory about a forecast Saharan dust plume projected to be passing over Guyana from yesterday to tomorrow.

The investigation into the deaths of two Canefield siblings days apart is still ongoing and according to a regional source, officials from within the region and Georgetown are carrying out the probe.

The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) has expressed concern over the ever increasing stifling of freedom of expression and harassment of journalists in the Americas.

-despite rebuff by parliament committee chair Prime Minister Mark Phillips on Thursday convened a meeting of members of parliament, private sector representatives and executives of GPL to provide an update on the power supply.

2,229 Guyanese have graduated from the University of the West Indies (UWI), according to President  Irfaan Ali, who on Thursday evening received the Legacy Award Class of 2024 for “leadership and vision” in New York.

-Constable Peroune best graduating student The Guyana Police Force (GPF) yesterday officially welcomed the newest batch of police ranks, as 59 men graduated from the Guyana Police Force Academy’s Initial Training Programme.

Contractors are mobilizing and construction is ongoing for some 440, low-moderate and high-income housing units in Region Three, the CH&PA says.

As part of its commitment to supporting educational initiatives that empower students and contribute to their holistic development, Food for the Poor (FFTP) (Guy) Inc recently made donations of sewing machines to several secondary schools in Georgetown.  

Waters taxis have received the green light to resume use of the Stabroek stelling for the onboarding and disembarking of passengers, a release yesterday from the Maritime Administration Department (MARAD) said.

Minister of Health, Dr Frank Anthony yesterday handed over a number of Portable and Fixed Ultrasound Machines along with Digital X-ray Viewing Stations to Regional Health Officers for Regions Three (Essequibo Islands-West Demerara), Four (Demerara-Mahaica), and Five (Mahaica-West Berbice).

Andray McPherson, a 42-year-old mason of Lot 26 Courbane Park, Annandale, East Coast Demerara, was charged yesterday  with unlawful possession of several items.