Guyana News

Parliament Office this evening announced that the proposed sitting of the House on November 12 has been postponed to a date to be fixed.

The government today appealed to sugar workers not to go on strike and it maintained its position that wage talks cannot begin now as a 10-year road map is being devised for the beleaguered industry and warned that no more bailout money is available from the state.

The opposition PPP today rejected the use of the historic Red House for the collections of Presidents other than the late Dr Cheddi Jagan.

Government is moving to table a witness protection bill that will see the establishment of safe houses and new identities for persons who put their lives at risk to testify in court, Minister of Governance Raphael Trotman announced yesterday.

Three suspected robbers have been captured after their getaway was derailed by persistent Mahaicony residents, who went as far as to set a field on fire to force one of the men out of hiding.

Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday accused government of deception on the Amaila Falls Hydropower Project (AFHP) and called on the David Granger administration to join in a “conversation” about the project based on reason.

Observant ranks of the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) yesterday unearthed 25 pounds of cocaine concealed in packets of powdered milk in the suitcase of an outbound passenger at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri.

Two men were yesterday charged with killing Onderneeming miner Sheldon Rodrigues.

Instead of the asking for a relaxation of enforcement of the 2am cap on liquor sales, the private sector should be lobbying for the law to be changed, Governance Minister Raphael Trotman said yesterday.

The fisherman accused of stealing $1.6 million in items from Guyana Stores Limited was yesterday cleared of the charge after a fingerprint analysis revealed he had been implicated wrongfully.

Agriculture spokesperson for the People’s Progressive Party and General Secretary of the Rice Producers Association Dharamkumar Seeraj is calling on the Agriculture Minister to enact concessions that would ease the financial burden faced by rice farmers and millers.

Nadira Persaud, the Norton Street woman who was in July charged with cannabis possession, was freed yesterday after a city magistrate found that no case had been made against her.

Minister of Finance Winston Jordan yesterday began consultations for Budget 2016.

The Government has requested that the Sitting of the National Assembly scheduled for November 12th, 2015, be postponed to enable the attendance of MPs at important conferences abroad.

Cabinet has given its approval for a tobacco control bill to be submitted to the National Assembly as government moves to bring an end to smoking in public places.

Declaring that the history of Guyana has been a contest between education and stagnation, President David Granger yesterday told the 2015 graduates of President College “there must be a second independence, one that frees us from dependency, frees us from discrimination, domination and the abuse of rights and our freedoms.”

A 17-year old mechanic is now dead after he lost control of a car while driving along the Lusignan Public Road on Wednesday night.

The newborn baby who fell off a cot at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation is in a serious but stable condition.

Two suspects are currently in police custody after the armed attack on a group of moneychangers on America Street on Tuesday night.

Restructuring and lack of financing are hampering Asian timber company, Bai Shan Lin Forest Development Inc.