Government is prepared to pay off millions of dollars owed by the University of Guyana (UG) but its Council remains divided over whether tuition fees should be increased, a top government official said Thursday. Presidential Advisor on Governance, Gail Teixeira said Council members, who are also members of Cabinet, Minister of Education Priya Manickchand, Vice Chancellor Professor Jacob Opadeyi and ...

Guyana’s Tourism Industry Minister, Irfan Ali has urged gold miners to re-invest some of their earnings in the country like the Alphonso Group of Companies has done with a US$3 million investment in the fast-food industry. ‘I want to call on persons especially within the mining sector who would enjoy some amount of liquidity to look at the options of ...

Electricity consumers in East and West Berbice will have to brace themselves for blackouts over the next two days after a vessel ran into the Guyana Power and Light’s (GPL) pump house at the Canefield power station, the company said in a statement. “During the interim period, the Company is forced to load shed during hours of peak demand, possibly ...

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) on Friday approved the continued detention of nine suspects in the brutal robberies at Wakenaam Island and Meten-Meer-Zorg, West Coast Demerara. Deputy Police Commissioner, Seelall Persaud said the eight others were expected to be released from custody. The DPP, Shalimar Ali-Hack has granted the police permission for the nine to remain in custody until ...

At least three important members of the Alliance For Change (AFC) have defected to A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) after sharp irreconcilable differences about campaign strategies and party management. The are Economist, Tarron Khemraj, businessman Rab Mukraj and Political Science Professor, Asquith Rose. Former soldier Malcolm Harripaul, who had long switched allegiance to the APNU, has been formally added ...

Guyana is treating climate change mitigation as one of its key concerns in talks with donor partners as it prepares for another billion-euro round of funding from the European Union. The media was Wednesday briefed on a two-day preparatory meeting ahead of the 11th European Development Fund [EDF] Programming Seminar for the Caribbean Region which opens on Thursday in Georgetown. ...

(SUN SENTINEL).-A Broward jury on Tuesday convicted a Pembroke Pines man of the murder of his adoptive mother, rejecting a defense claim that he had consensual sex with the victim and then passed out while someone else killed her. Gerard Lopes Belmonte, 23, was found guilty of second-degree murder after jurors deliberated for five hours Tuesday. He faces a maximum ...

A minibus conductor was Tuesday night killed and 11 others injured when the vehicle he was working on collided with a car in Georgetown. He was identified as Gavin De Ali, 22, of Non Pariel, East Coast Demerara. The accident occurred at the intersection of Brickdam and Louisa Row. Eyewitnesses said a car “jumped” Brickdam and slammed into a Route ...

Rear Admiral, Gary Best on Tuesday called on government to overhaul the way it allocates resources to the security sector and urged that the air and maritime wings be strengthened up. “Therefore, from a defence perspective, it is critical that a constant and sharp eye be placed on aviation and maritime development to provide faster access for forest and remote ...

The handgun allegedly found in possession of a man who the police gunned down at Meten-Meer-Zorg was used at the scene of the robbery-murder in that West Coast Demerara village, police said. Deputy Police Commissioner, Seelall Persaud said ballistic tests conducted on spent shells found at the scene of Vicky Namdar’s murder and robbery on September 11 matched the 9 ...