By News Source Guyana on July 12, 2018
News, Politics
The Georgetown Public Hospital has recorded 119 deaths of newborn infants between June 2017 and June 2018. Those deaths were related to premature births. That information was presented to the National Assembly today by Public Health Minister Volda Lawrence. She was at the time responding to an oral question without notice from opposition MP and […]
By News Source Guyana on July 12, 2018
News, Politics
Minister within the Ministry of Natural Resources Simona Broomes offered no comment when asked on Thursday whether she had any intentions of apologising to the security guards who were part of a parking lot fracas involving her and her driver. Broomes had claimed that she was cursed at and felt threatened by the security guards. […]
By News Source Guyana on July 12, 2018
News, Politics
The Guyana Manufacturing and Service Association (GMSA) is calling on Government to take urgent action to repair and maintain roads in Guyana’s interior region, as timber producers are facing huge losses because if the roads being in an impassable state. Several operators in the timber and mining industries have been complaining about the state of […]
By News Source Guyana on July 12, 2018
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Hundreds of Lindeners gathered at the Mackenzie Sports Club this midday to bid farewell to former Mayor of Linden and former Regional Parliamentarian Abdul Kadir. Kadir passed away in a US Prison recently, where he was serving a life sentence on a terrorism conspiracy conviction. He had always maintained his innocence of the charge. At […]
By News Source Guyana on July 12, 2018
News, Politics
In what is likely to be his last US Independence address as the United States Ambassador to Guyana, Mr. Perry Holloway on Wednesday said he believes the old contract signed with US Oil Giant, ExxonMobil is about the best that could be expected based on historic exploration results in Guyana at that time. Holloway also spoke about the […]
By News Source Guyana on July 11, 2018
Crime, News
A 19-year-old woman who was nabbed with 119 cocaine pellets in her stomach was today sentenced to three years in jail and fined $1.4 million after pleading guilty to cocaine trafficking. The woman, Anisha Hardy of South Ruimveldt stood before the Chief Magistrate and admitted that on the 6th of July she had one and […]
By News Source Guyana on July 11, 2018
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The Guyana Water Inc. has assured that although tests have confirmed mercury levels higher than what is acceptable in samples of water taken in Port Kaituma, efforts are afoot to make available alternative access to potable water. GWI’s Managing Director Dr. Van West Charles told reporters on Tuesday that the water company has stopped pumping water in […]
By News Source Guyana on July 11, 2018
News, Politics
Drama unfolded Tuesday morning within the Parliamentary Chambers as an anti bribery and corruption forum organized for members of the National Assembly got underway. Poorly attended by Government MPs, Opposition Parliamentarians turned out in their numbers and demanded the resignation of the facilitator, British Fraud Expert and Advisor to the Special Organized Crime Unit (SOCU) Sam Sittlington. […]
By News Source Guyana on July 11, 2018
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More than seven years after some $500 million was spent to develop a Continuously Operating Reference Station (CORS) Network in Guyana, the Government today said is now being forced to spend $93 million to repair a defunct system which was never operationalized. Commissioner of the Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission Trevor Benn told reporters on Tuesday that […]
By News Source Guyana on July 11, 2018
Crime, News
Police detectives have arrested a suspect as they continue their probe into the murder of a Campbellville Pandit and his son. Investigators were called to the man’s home at Delph Avenue. and Craig Street Campbellville yesterday morning where they discovered the bodies of the two men in a partly decomposed state. Both bodies reportedly bore […]