Guyana News

Two Linden men are wanted by the police for allegedly trafficking a quantity of narcotics in Linden more than three months ago.

This is the second year of celebrating Christmas during the Coronavirus pandemic (Covid-19), which caused many lives to be disrupted.

APNU+AFC Member of Parliament Ganesh Mahipaul on Thursday questioned Prime Minister Mark Phillips on how computers could be procured prior to the approval of the supplementary provision by the House.

Tenders were yesterday opened at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board for the reconstruction of the Moblissa Bridge which attracted two bidders.

Two men were yesterday arraigned at two Magistrate’s Courts to answer to possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking charges.

Two more COVID-19 deaths were yesterday reported along with 32 new cases According to the Ministry of Health,  the country’s total fatalities increased to 1,042.

President Irfaan Ali says that he has charged Senior Minister within the Office of the President with responsibility for Finance, Dr Ashni Singh, to meet with bankers and representatives from the Private Sector Commission (PSC) to chart a way forward that will be beneficial to the business community and ordinary Guyanese alike.

Parliament’s Committee on Appointments has agreed on four names for the new Police Service Commission and a motion to this effect is to go before the National Assembly.

The Ministry of Housing and Water yesterday awarded contracts to the tune of $13.3 billion in 12 lots for the construction of an alternative four-lane highway between Eccles and Great Diamond on the East Bank of Demerara which is expected to ease chronic, daily traffic congestion on the stretch.

Declaring that frontline health workers  are awaiting a well-negotiated retroactive payout of risk allowances, the GPSU yesterday lambasted as “meagre” government’s announcement on Tuesday of a two-week, tax free payout to all health personnel.

President Irfaan Ali has reinstated the one-month tax-free salary as a bonus for all members of the Joint Services.

City Engineer Colvern Venture has accused Georgetown Mayor Ubraj Narine and a group of councillors of targeting him in relation to the failure of the engineer’s department to properly manage the city.

The Education Ministry, in December of 2020, signed five contracts before they were awarded at the level of the Ministerial Tender Board (MTB) resulting in the continuous breach of the Procurement Act of 2003, according to Auditor General Deodat Sharma.

Government Minister Nigel Dharamlall on Tuesday launched a severe attack on two judges of the Court of Appeal and redacted portions of it yesterday after coming under criticisms from the bar association and others.

Farmers from Victoria Village on the East Coast of Demerara are to benefit from a number of much-needed drainage works, according to Agriculture Minister, Zulfikar Mustapha. 

Retired headmaster of Baramita Primary School and former Probation Officer, Bissonnauth Bacchus, is requesting the assistance of the general public to find the driver of HC 4557 who reportedly robbed him in Prashad Nagar, Georgetown.

Tenders were on Tuesday opened at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board for a new outpatient building at the Port Mourant Hospital.

The police are still investigating the hit-and-run on Lamaha Street in Georgetown on Monday, 29th November that resulted in the death of 78-year-old Grove resident, Veronica Lewis.

Canada yesterday congratulated Aubrey Norton on his election as PNCR Leader at last Saturday’s biennial delegates’ conference.

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GTT) yesterday said that it has introduced its residential and Biz Fibre services to New Amsterdam, Region Six.