Guyana News

(Jamaica Gleaner) The St Kitts-Nevis government says it will adopt new measures aimed at improving the treatment of CARICOM nationals living in the twin island Federation.

Leader of the Opposition Brigadier David Granger today called on President Donald Ramotar to convene a border and national security committee in the wake of last week’s seizure by Caracas of a ship in Guyana’s waters.

With an anti-money laundering bill still sandwiched in Parliament between the government and the opposition, the private sector today warned of growing and dire consequences for the business community.

Amid a week-old row over the seizure by Venezuela of an oil exploration vessel in Guyana’s waters, technical teams from Georgetown and Caracas are to meet in four months to address maritime delimitation.

Canadian gold mining company Guyana Goldfields has begun purchasing equipment for its Aurora gold mine and expects to award construction contracts for several key facilities within the next 30 days.

The Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Guyana is outraged that employers continue to flout the law by refusing to pay their workers the new national minimum wage and plans to forward such reports to the Labour Ministry.

Minister of Tourism, Industry and Commerce, Irfaan Ali is urging businesses and other stakeholders to petition the US Department of Transportation to allow Fly Jamaica to operate direct flights between Guyana and New York.

The United Minibus Union and the University of Guyana (UG) yesterday made a verbal agreement for bus operators who transport staff and students to and from the Turkeyen Campus to be uniformed but not all operators are on board The agreement is part of the union’s effort to regularise public transportation countrywide.

The Ministry of Natural Resources will soon lay charges against Prospect-ing Licence (PL) and mineral property holders for violations and infringements of their agreements because of illegal subleasing unearthed during an enforcement exercise.

Three officers of the Linden Utility Services Cooperative Society Limited (LUSCSL) have been stripped of their positions but the way forward remains undecided after a special members meeting called last Sunday failed to get off the ground because of the lack of a quorum.

The Ministry of Education is introducing the study of the Portuguese language to the curriculum for Grade 7 students in five high schools and says it is pushing for it to be an examinable subject at the CXC level.

Michael ‘Shark Oil’ Gobin, a known character was on Monday refused bail when he appeared before Magistrate Rondell Weaver at the Blairmont Court charged with robbery under arms.

Both the state and defence yesterday made their final arguments to the jury in the trial of Ramesh Muniram, who is accused of murdering his wife.

Fire Chief Marlon Gentle yesterday said that the cause of the Parfait Harmonie fire that destroyed a two-bedroom home and a smaller apartment on Wednesday evening was the explosion of a kerosene stove.

Stabroek Market vendor Stacy Mansfield, annoyed at a competing vendor for luring one of his customers away, stabbed him in the neck with a pair of scissors, police say.

Two Colombian nationals, accused of forging Guyana Business Visas, were yesterday each placed on $100,000 bail after a local businessman testified in their favour.

A battery dealer was yesterday placed on $50,000 bail after he denied unlawfully wounding another man.

At the Fort Wellington Court yesterday, a woman was ordered to post bail in the sum of $60,000 when she was granted her pre-trial freedom on a felonious wounding charge.

The Caribbean Community is calling on the Dominican Republic to adopt measures to protect the human rights of those made vulnerable following a September 23 ruling of its constitutional court on nationality which modifies retroactively legislation which bestowed citizenship on persons born in that territory from 1929-2010.

Joint Statement by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Guyana, Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett and the People’s Minister for Foreign Relations of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Elias Jaua Milano   The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Guyana, the Honourable Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett, and the People’s Minister for Foreign Relations of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela met in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago on Thursday October 17, 2013 on the instructions of their Presidents with the aim of advancing the bilateral political dialogue in light of the recent event.