Guyana News

After months of speculation and intrigue in APNU+AFC, Aubrey Norton and Volda Lawrence are to be sworn in as MPs on Wednesday and this will pave the way for the former to be elected as Opposition Leader.

A 49-year-old man was remanded to prison yesterday after he was charged with the murder of truck driver, Pitamber Sharma who was strangled allegedly during a misunderstanding at his workplace last week.

A sub-committee of CARICOM Heads is to meet with the two regional nominees for the post of Commonwealth Secretary-General (SG) amid another embarrassing division in the community over foreign policy.

Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Shalimar Ali-Hack SC has decried the outmoded paper-based system still being used for the filing of cases and made an appeal for a digital transformation.

Opposition Parliamentary Chief Whip Christopher Jones and Trade Unionist Norris Witter, have filed an action challenging last December’s passage of the controversial Natural Resource Fund (NRF) Bill.

A special investigation by the Auditor General’s office on procurement procedures within the Region Six, East Berbice-Corentyne Regional Democratic Council revealed that the Region’s engineer during 2018 utilised information from a bidding contractor to prepare the Engineer’s Estimate.

An Ulverston, Corentyne fisherman is feared dead after he reportedly fell overboard while fishing in the Corentyne River on Monday evening.

An Interim Management Committee was this month set up to manage the Linden Utility Cooperative Society Limited (LUCSL).

Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) officers yesterday conducted an intelligence-led operation at 259 Indepen-dence Boulevard, La Penitence, which resulted in the discovery of one 9mm Glock 17 pistol with a magazine containing four 9mm rounds.

Two persons were yesterday charged with assaulting police officers, resisting arrest and behaving disorderly in public.

Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) is targeting early 2023 for the operationalization of the first World Trade Center in the CARICOM region, according to the company’s Executive Chairman Komal Samaroo.

Bids were on Tuesday opened at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board for the temporary rental by the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) of a (60,000 to 80,000 sq ft) compound situated within Houston to Providence, East Bank Demerara, for storage of goods. 

The Ministry of Amerindian Affairs (MoAA) is not taking criticisms of its operations lightly and in a strongly worded statement lashed out at critics for registering concerns over its functioning.

The Ministry of Health yesterday confirmed 11 new COVID-19 infections from a batch of 1,405 tests.

As part of its efforts to assist those fisherfolk who have been impacted by low catches over the past six months,  the Ministry of Agriculture yesterday distributed approximately 170 food hampers to fisherfolk and their families from the East Coast of Demerara, The distribution comes months after a group of fishermen complained of not being able to harvest in their usual grounds due to offshore oil operations.

The Guyana Government today wrote the Chair of the Public Utilities Commission (PUC), Dela Britton expressing concern at what it said were numerous reports of the poor quality of public telecommunications services.

Representative of the APNU+AFC List of Candidates, David Granger has written to the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) advising it to extract the names of Aubrey Norton and Volda Lawrence to fill the two empty seats in the National Assembly.

As the probe into the theft of supplies from the Minis-try of Health’s (MoH) drugs bond at Diamond, East Bank Demerara (EBD) widens, director of the facility, Cecil Jacques, and several other staffers were yesterday taken into custody for questioning by police.

ExxonMobil has selected a planned US$600 million Vreed-en-Hoop shore base established by NRG Holdings Incorporated – a consortium of local business persons –  to support its offshore oil operations, sources say.

After a two-year hiatus, the ceremonial opening of the criminal assizes returned to the High Court in Demerara yesterday morning and heard a renewed call by the Bar Association for confirmed appointments to the top two posts in the judiciary and the recomposing of the Judicial Service Commission.