by Shikema Dey and Denis Chabrol Even as a local agri-business company awaits government’s response to its interest in buying the Skeldon Sugar Estate and factory, a trade union and its aligned opposition People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) Tuesday called for transparency. President of the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU), Komal Chand maintained his workers’ organisation’s rejection of ...

The Guyana government has been told that tolls for crossing the new Demerara Harbour Bridge in 2020 should be increased by at least 250 percent and river vessel tolls by 700 percent to make way for government to contribute US$39.3 million in five years. “Toll tariff rates are advised to be increased to 250 % of the present 2017 road ...

Prisoners at the Georgetown Prison Tuesday morning kicked doors and behaved disorderly to demand steak for breakfast, but the minor unrest was quelled after senior security sector officers spoke with them, Director of Prisons Gladwin Samuels said. He said about 12 of the inmates there kicked doors, saying they wanted the special meat cut for breakfast. “Situation under control. The ...

Dynamic International Airways is about to drastically cut its number of flights to Guyana, officials said. Gerry Gouveia, Chief Executive Officer of Roraima Airways- Dynamic’s local handler, told Demerara Waves Online that he was “seeing two flights in the system” and the carrier would be “consolidating” already booked passengers to fly them on the reduced schedule. The Winston-Salem Journal reported ...

Guyana is moving to establish a system to monitor the effectiveness of medicines as part of efforts to ensure the best quality drugs are used in the health sector, officials said Monday. Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Shamdeo Persaud said there was no data to substantiate anecdotal reports that due to better quality drugs being supplied, fewer patients were waking up ...

Just weeks after a Commission of Inquiry into how well the police investigated an alleged presidential assassination plot, the Guyana Police Force’s judgement Monday appeared set to be called into question again after they rounded up several suspected drug addicts to assist them at an early morning fire scene. After a female relative of the Sankars, who occupied the building ...

A Guyana Police Force Lance Corporal, who was allegedly driving under the influence of alcohol, on Monday remained under close arrest in connection with the death of a 20-year old woman. Investigators said the 39- year old man, who is based at Force Headquarters, was driving his personal vehicle bearing licence number PSS 3984. The policeman, who resides at Cummings Lodge, East ...

A city businessman was Monday morning believed to have been burnt to death in his wooden property that also housed a photocopy and photography centre, The fire quickly destroyed the building located at Main and Lamaha Streets, Georgetown. After the blaze is brought under control, fire fighters will search for the body of 77-year old Mr. Yussuf Sankar. One of ...

A security guard was Sunday nursing a gunshot wound and a man, who allegedly grabbed a service revolver from a Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) officer, has been arrested, police said. The GRA officer has also been detained. Police said they were investigating the circumstances in which a 22-year old security guard of Lower Kara Kara, Linden was shot. He is ...

Two men, believed to be perpetrators of several robberies on the lower East Coast Demerara, were early Sunday morning arrested shortly after they allegedly robbed a contractor of a gold chain valued GYD$1.6 million, the Guyana Police Force said. Investigators said the two suspects  -ages 26 and 31, who are  from Mon Repos and Beterverwagting , East Coast Demerara. “have been ...