Guyana News

 The latest Guyana news from Stabroek News including oil and gas coverage, crime, politics, culture, business and more.

APNU launches local gov’t campaign

APNU yesterday announced the launch of its campaign for local government elections and coalition leader David Granger said he was confident that the Donald Ramotar administration would sign the outstanding reforms of the system into law.

Prime Main St lot up for sale

A prime plot of land, located between the Guyana Stores and Courts buildings on Main Street, Georgetown is up for sale and the public might soon see another mega store on Main Street as the land is attracting serious interest.

CEO Windsor Estates Danny Sawh and Prime Minister Samuel Hinds, standing in front of the company’s model home. (Government Information Agency photo)

Windsor Estates model home unveiled

The launch of the Windsor Estates Housing Develop-ment was welcomed by Prime Minister Samuel Hinds as yet another example of how far housing sector had advanced when he formally opened the door to a completed model home aback Peter’s Hall, East Bank Demerara.

MARAD shares life jackets in Muritaro

Officials from the Maritime Administration Department (MARAD), led by the Director of Maritime Safety, Captain Stephen Thomas, this week visited Muritaro village to distribute life jackets to the Muritaro Primary School.

The raging fire (Arian Browne photo)

Fire ravages Comfort Sleep again

Less than a month after fire ravaged the Comfort Sleep Bond, the inferno returned, this time destroying the company’s factory also located in the  Eccles Industrial Site.

Fifteen schools to remain closed on Friday

The Ministry of Education this evening said that the following schools will remain closed tomorrow, Friday, November 29, 2013:          The Ministry said the decision to have the schools remain closed was made after checks by Ministry officials revealed that as a result of the slow pace in the receding of the flood waters, no sanitation work could have commenced.

New York Guyanese cop badly beaten

An off duty police of Guyanese descent employed as a Sergeant with the New York City Police Department (NYPD) was savagely beaten near death in Richmond Hill last week by another man who was later arrested by officers NYPD.

A flooded house in Victoria Street, Albouystown last evening.

City stunned by flash flood

Incessant rain, which began in the wee hours of yesterday, left most of the city under several inches of water, closing schools, shuttering businesses and causing millions of dollars in damage.

No severe weather warnings from $550m Doppler radar

Four years after it was commissioned and innumerable bouts of severe weather later, the $550 million Doppler Radar project intended to provide up-to-the-minute weather reports isn’t doing so leaving some to conclude that the European Union and Guyana-funded project is a failure in that respect.

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