Guyana News

Strategic Action Security Services owes hundreds of millions in unpaid wages to its employees and will be taken to court by the Labour Ministry as it seeks to have the firm’s employees paid what is owed to them, Labour Minister Nanda Gopaul said today.

Muri Brasil Ventures Inc. (MBVI), the company granted a controversial permit for mineral surveying in the ecologically fragile New River Triangle, yesterday defended exploration of the area while signalling that mining will bring “unimaginable” benefits.

GuySuCo’s dismal performance this year will cost it roughly US$14.4m ($3B) in its shortfall to the guaranteed European Union (EU) market.

While buying and selling rates at local cambios have remained somewhat constant, Guyanese using their debit or credit cards and bank drafts for United States dollar transactions will notice what appears to be a further depreciation of the Guyana dollar.

Stalled installation works by the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) in the #76 Housing Scheme in Corentyne, Berbice is taking its toll on residents, impacting their budgets and putting their safety at risk.

Opposition Leader David Granger yesterday said that APNU has gotten an “explanation” from its front bencher Volda Lawrence over her hurried exit from parliament on Thursday which enabled the approval of funds for the controversial Specialty Hospital.

With heavy rainfall over the last few days, there has not been any report of severe losses to crops in Region Five although some riverain areas were flooded.

Residents of Region One and surrounding districts are set to benefit from a new $400M hospital which is to be constructed soon at Port Kaituma.

An accident which occurred yesterday in Moblissa,  has left an infant dead and several other persons injured.

President of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Clinton Urling does not believe the wording of the Permission for Geological and Geophysical Survey (PGGS) granted to Muri Brasil Ventures Inc.

The investigation into the death of four year old Jaden Mars who died at   the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) last week, several days after he was admitted for treatment for a bitten tongue, has been completed.

The preliminary inquiry into the murder charge against Lloyd Britton, who is accused of killing Elvis Fernandes on Mandela Avenue in July, is set to begin on February 17.

A seaman is now nursing stab wounds at the Georgetown Public Hos-pital Corporation after he was brutally attacked by four men armed with machetes on Monday at Pigeon Island Squatting Area, East Coast Demerara.

One of the two men who allegedly robbed an auto dealership at Lusignan, East Coast Demerara, of two cars was yesterday remanded to prison.

The Australian High Commission Direct Aid Program has awarded a US$112,800 grant to the Healthy Caribbean Coalition (HCC) to fund five regional projects aimed at boosting the capacity of key civil society groups to respond to community-based needs for cervical cancer prevention.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment says that there was never any advice from the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) against issuing the controversial New River Triangle surveying permit to Muri Brasil Ventures Inc.

The Grove Community Policing Group elected office bearers at its recent AGM held in the Grove/Diamond NDC boardroom.

The Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit yesterday put out a wanted bulletin for Ceyon Andrew Rydel Weeks, 31, who is wanted for questioning.

Chairman of the Caricom Reparations Commission Sir Hilary Beckles announced that public health has been identified as one of six key issues to receive reparatory diplomacy and action.

It was inadvertently stated in the caption of the picture on page 20 of the Tuesday, December 17th edition, that a quantity of reading glasses were handed over to two Islamic organisations.