Guyana News

The Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association (GGDMA) announced last evening that Medium and Small miners have declared just over 359,000 ounces of gold as of the end of November.

With both sides remaining firm on their Annual Production Incentive (API) submissions, the Guyana Sugar Corporation and the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) will enter into conciliation on Tuesday.

A Bachelor’s Adventure man was yesterday placed on $150,000 bail after he pleaded not guilty to stealing a quantity of articles he claimed were rented to his company.

The new $30.8M Cummings Park Nursery School was commissioned by the Ministry of Education on   Wednesday.

Canadian firm Guyana Goldfields Inc (GGI) has produced over 21,000 ounces of gold over the last two months as it continues to ramp-up mining activities at its Aurora Gold Mine in Region Seven.

Parliament’s Committee on Appointments had its first meeting on Wednesday but discussion of the establishment of the required Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) Authority was not on the agenda.

Over 300 persons in Linden and Lethem municipalities were recently employed through the Community Infrastructure Improvement Project (CIIP) implemented by the Ministry of Communities.

The Mayor and City Council (M&CC) has established a Revenue Investigation Unit in the City Treasurer’s Department as it seeks to ensure property owners pay their contributions.

On December 3rd the Social Work Department of the Ptolemy Reid Rehabilitation Centre (PRRC) observed International Day of Persons with Disabilities by hosting a Foot Care Workshop for the Diabetic patients of its Amputee Clinic, a release from the centre said.

An ex-con was yesterday charged in a city court with stealing $1.2 million in cash and goods in a break-in after police said his fingerprint was found at the crime scene.

Guyanese born dentist, Dr Kenneth Jainandan of Lake Mary Florida, USA, recently presented the Rotary Club of Georgetown Central with dental and oral hygiene supplies for their Dental Outreach Programme.

The trial of the two police constables accused of assaulting detainee Colwyn Harding was adjourned again yesterday.

The body of missing taxi driver Colin Clarke was found today in a trench at Uitvlugt, West Coast Demerara and it is suspected that he was robbed of his car and murdered.

ZURICH, (Reuters) – Switzerland’s Federal Office of Justice (FOJ) named Alfredo Hawit of Honduras, acting president of CONCACAF, and Juan Angel Napout of Paraguay, the head of CONMEBOL, as the two FIFA officials arrested in Zurich on Thursday.

Ahead of Venezuela’s parliamentary elections this weekend and the busy Christmas shopping season, government yesterday announced that it had launched Operation Dragnet, a massive countrywide anti-crime and counter-terrorism operation.

Bauxite workers will once again see no taxes levied on their overtime wages as government yesterday announced the reinstatement of their ‘no tax to overtime’ policy that was removed under the PPP/C administration in 2007.

The Board of the state-owned Guyana Chronicle yesterday fired the newspaper’s General Manager Michael Gordon and Editor Mark Ramotar with immediate effect citing weak management and poor circulation numbers.

Government yesterday announced that cabinet has approved the title of state land at Tucville to the Uncle Eddie’s Home, where the senior citizen facility is located.

Contracts to a total value of around $1.5b were announced at the Ministry of the Presidency yesterday and they include large sums for text books and roads and $39.8m for the Police Mounted Branch Stables.

The coach of an Agricola under-16 football team was yesterday remanded to prison after he pleaded   not guilty to a drug charge at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.