Guyana News

Issues such as poor drainage, difficulty acquiring land titles and labour concerns were raised at two community meetings hosted by Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday.

The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) is collaborating with Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GTT) to host a competition for local programmers to create technology solutions that can address socio-economic challenges in Guyana.

Region Five was host to a series of job camps sponsored by El Dorado Offshore (EDO), a local recruitment, manpower supply and personnel logistics company that will assist applicants for jobs in the oil & gas sector to prepare for interviews.

The Ministry of Health has recorded six new COVID-19 cases out of 1, 251 tests that were done.

The U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) for Caribbean Affairs and Haiti, Barbara A.

American Airlines (AA) has apologised to the Guyana Government over a more than four-hour delay in the departure of a February 27 flight to Miami on which President Irfaan Ali was a passenger.

Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) Aubrey Norton has once again called on the government to immediately implement measures to cushion the skyrocketing cost of living.

Business executive and long-serving Private Sector Commission member, Ramesh Dookhoo is the private sector’s nominee for the Natural Resource Fund (NRF) board which will oversee oil and gas revenues.

Government is examining ways to reduce the cost of bandwidth for students who are currently pursuing education under the Guyana Online Academy of Learning (GOAL), according to Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo.

The Ministry of Health (MOH) employee who was found in possession of illegal firearms and ammunition along with a large quantity of cash remains in police custody and is likely to be charged today.

Police are investigating the alleged kidnapping of an 18-year-old East Bank Demerara (EBD) girl, who was found with injuries about her body yesterday afternoon, one day after she went missing.

Almost six months after it closed the application process for the filling of key vacancies, the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) is yet to interview the shortlisted applicants and now Opposition-nominated Commissioner Vincent Alexander is raising concerns about what he sees as the deliberate slothfulness in the process.

The Guyana National Bureau of Standards’ (GNBS) Certification Services Department yesterday certified Caribbean Surgery Inc after it demonstrated conformance to the requirements of the Guyana Standard (GYS 170:2009) – General requirements for the operation of a laboratory.

With fuel prices having risen dramatically in recent weeks, Stabroek News visited three of the main gas stations in central Georgetown to check on prices.

The Mayor and Councillors of the City of Georgetown will be conducting a sanitization and cleaning exercise at the Bourda Market and its immediate environs today from 7 am.

Convicted sex offender Esan Germain who is currently serving a 65-year sentence for sexually abusing a 4-year-old on three occasions—with the final assault at age seven—now faces an additional 30 years behind bars for raping a 15-year-old girl three times.

President Irfaan Ali has stated that the Caribbean region is a stable platform with all of the components for a modern and emerging economy According to a release from the Office of the President yesterday, Ali made this remark during his keynote address at the Caribbean Investment Forum (CIF2022), hosted by the Caribbean Export Development Agency, in association with the Caribbean Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (CAIPA) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

The Spark Programme which will introduce students to Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology was launched on Monday at the National Centre for Educational Resource Development (NCERD).

The driver of the vehicle which fatally struck two persons along the Number 70 Public Road on Friday evening was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with causing death by dangerous driving, failure to report the accident, and failure to render assistance.

The mother of Roger Brandt, the man who disappeared almost one month ago while waiting outside a Sheriff Street, Georgetown supermarket is offering a substantial reward for any information on his whereabouts or safe return.