Guyana News

With the six-week review period for the draft amendments to the Representation of the People Act (RoPA) winding down, the Electoral Reform Group (ERG) is calling on the government to simplify the proposals in order to reach the wider Guyanese population and extend the timeframe.

Eight candidates have been shortlisted for consideration as prospective commissioners for the Public Procurement Commission (PPC).

By Baytoram Ramharack George Lamming, the Bajan novelist and social commentator said that the name Cheddi Jagan evokes “permanence and awe” of the type “which time confers on certain historical monuments.”

The family of an 18-year-old girl who recently took her own life are blaming officers at the Cove and John Police Station for her drastic action because of the way they handled her allegation of rape against a taxi driver.

An Essequibo family is now mourning the death of a 16-year-old labourer, who fell from a high steel structure at a rice mill on Saturday afternoon.

A fire, suspected to be electrical in origin, destroyed a Line Path guesthouse in the wee hours of Saturday morning, leaving the owner with millions of dollars in losses.

Chief Labour Officer Dhaneshwar Deonarine has been instructed to convene a meeting with National Tripartite Committee (NTC) to resume discussions on the national minimum wage, Minister of Labour Joseph Hamilton has said.

Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly Lenox Shuman has said that he has been threatened with victimization following posts he made on Facebook.

With just under two weeks to go before the People’s National Congress Reform’s 21st Biennial Delegates’ Congress, former Party Chairman Basil Williams on Saturday announced that he had accepted a nomination to contest for the office of Leader.

The Ministry of Health on Saturday confirmed that a fully vaccinated woman was the country’s latest COVID-19 fatality.

While many children who have tested positive for COVID-19 have shown mild symptoms or none at all, medical experts have voiced concern over the growing number of those with lingering effects months after they contracted the deadly virus. 

The majority of persons currently hospitalized at Guyana’s Infectious Disease Hospital, at Liliendaal, are pregnant women, according to Minister of Health Dr Frank Anthony.

The Ministry of Finance on Friday denied a claim by former Minister of Finance Winston Jordan that a conflict of interest existed as a result of the Head of its Project Cycle Management Division (PCMD), Tarachand Balgobin chairing the national procurement board.

The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) has called for the long delayed reforms of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) and the electoral system to be made priority. 

A Stanleytown man died last evening after he crashed his motorcycle along Strand, New Amsterdam.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Russia has no plans to invade Ukraine and suggestions to the contrary are malicious U.S.

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) is currently investigating the discovery of cannabis and a gun with ammunition at a Plaisance, East Coast Demerara, home.

Former Attorney General and former Chairman of the PNCR, Basil Williams SC has signalled his acceptance of the nominations by groups to contest for leadership of the PNCR at its upcoming congress.

President Irfaan Ali on Friday drew rebuke after a bid to push back against criticism of his government’s imposed 7% pay hike for public servants, with the workers’ union maintaining that the administration broke the law by ignoring the agreed collective bargaining process. 

With the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sticking by its decision to not require an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for the new Demerara Harbour Bridge, environmentalist Simone Mangal-Joly is warning against the potential impacts that a project of such magnitude can bring.