Guyana News

HPS and Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon on Wednesday announced that Cabinet green-lighted several contracts at its statutory meeting on Tuesday, including one valued over $46M in the security sector.

Pandit Suresh Sugrim extends Shub Deepavali to the nation and calls on devotees to remember the less fortunate and to share their blessings with them.

Three schools and an agrochemical supplier were awarded by the Pesticides and Toxic Chemicals Control Board (PTCCB) of the Ministry of Agriculture during its 2013 pesticide awareness award ceremony on Tuesday even as the call was sounded for better storage of the chemicals.

As part of its programme of enhancing Information Technology in the Education System, Food for the Poor (Guyana) Incorporated donated a computer kit to the Gibson Primary School located at Lancaster Village, East Coast Demerara, on Thursday 24th October, 2013.

The Guyana Human Rights Association has expressed concern about reports that the government may be considering licensing of Chinese fishing vessels in this country’s waters.

Guyana will lose out on around US$20M of the payment it would have received under its forest protection agreement with Norway for last year, once increased deforestation is confirmed by independent verification exercises to be completed by month end, according to Natural Resources Minister Robert Persaud.

APNU executive Joe Harmon yesterday declared that Guyanese doing legitimate business had nothing to fear from the deadlines set for the passage on the anti-money laundering bill.

The PPP yesterday called on the parliamentary opposition to “stand on the side of law and the law abiding” by supporting the anti-money laundering amendments, which the party is hoping to pass ahead of a critical country review later this month.

A Guyana Defence Force (GDF) died last evening, succumbing to injuries he sustained in a vehicular accident along Mandela Avenue.

Guyana has the second highest rate of adolescent pregnancy in both the Caribbean and South America, with 97 out of every 1,000 girls between the ages of 15 and 19 giving birth, according to the State of the World Population 2013 report.

An 11-month-old baby boy was rescued early yesterday morning from a rum shop where his 31-year-old mother was drinking when officers from the Child Care and Protection Agency (CC&PA) in Region Five made a sweep of the area.

The National Assembly must be taken out of the control of government as is demanded by the doctrine of the separation of powers if it is to effectively execute its mandate as the law making arm of government, says House Speaker Raphael Trotman.

A richer democracy can be achieved by creating a stronger parliament through constitutional reform, Trinidad’s Speaker of the House Wade Mark says.

Security guard Shanta Devi Persaud, who was stabbed on October 19 near her Sophia home, succumbed on Thursday last to injuries from the multiple stab wounds she received allegedly at the hands of her ex partner.

Anoopwattie Vereen, educator and former Head teacher of the Helena Primary School at Mahai-ca, died yesterday after a brief period of illness, the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported last evening.

The Guyana Police Force has announced that trucks and other large vehicles would be restricted from using the East Bank Public Road during rush hour on weekday mornings and afternoons.

The opposition has to find creative ways of engaging with the government to lift the country out of the present impasse, according to former PPP/C Minister Henry Jeffrey, who says that the apparent belief by APNU and the AFC that the governing party will lose its plurality anytime soon is “farfetched.”

Ryan Chow, a sales clerk at Game Express, was yesterday accused of stealing $2.6 million in games from the store.

A man was yesterday remanded to prison on a charge of narcotics possession for trafficking after her was caught by police allegedly transporting marijuana in a wine box.

Kerwin Estwick, of Amelia’s Ward, Linden, was yesterday charged with the gunpoint robbery of a vendor, who he is accused of holding up just minutes after buying bananas from her.