Guyana News

“We are working on stemming the tide of illegal weapons entering the country, but they are getting here in various ways and from several countries”

Guyana Defence Force Brigadier David A Granger believes that narcotics and fuel smuggling are corrupting Guyana on a large scale and he is calling on the security forces to spend time suppressing these rather ... via Stabroek News

Tom Exploration inc. is pleased to announce that its wholly-owned subsidiary Excel Gold Guyana inc. via Canada NewsWire

“The drivers are not compelled to carry the schoolchildren when they can carry adults. Why the people's rights were violated in a peaceful protest?”

Hire car and minibus drivers, cane-cutters and housewives yesterday turned out in their numbers at Tain, Corentyne to continue their protest against increased fines and fares and this time they also protested ... via Stabroek News

“We are taking a position on cement in line with the principled one taken by the Government of Guyana on rice imports into Jamaica.”

TCL Group, Caricom's leading supplier of cement, has expressed deep disappointment at the indication that the Government of Guyana intends to maintain the waiver of the 15 per cent CET on cement imports. via Trinidad & Tobago Express

Guyana changes hands several times between the Dutch, French and British. British rule 1814 - Britain occupies Guyana during the Napoleonic Wars. via BBC

“Something good will come out of this, benefiting both Guyana, Barbados and indeed the rest of the region, as is already happening in some areas of working together”

"There have been several inquiries at the local Guyana Consulate, and at the relevant office in Guyana," Honorary Consul Norman Faria told the DAILY NATION yesterday. via The Nation

“The wild assertions are not enough”

President Bharrat Jagdeo told the business community that the subprime financial crisis in the United States would mean higher international borrowing rates and the re-pricing of risk, which could impact ... via Stabroek News

“We expected that since the government of Guyana argued on that notion, it would have been easy for the theory to be equally applied to cement imports into Guyana as required by the revised treaty.”

Minister of Tourism, Industry and Commerce, Manniram Prashad, on Thursday confirmed that government had extended Common External Tariff waiver on extra-regional cement imports while Trinidad Cement Limited ... via Stabroek News

“The history of security management by the PPP government is a disappointing failure and I hope that this is not just another plan”

With continuing crime and an alarming rise in road deaths the National Assembly last evening passed a motion for the appointment of a special select committee to oversee the implementation of a British-funded ... via Stabroek News

“First was de police showing no heart now is dem soldiers. Dem run in dis man house and carry he away...then dem just lock up de house with dem two lil children inside”

Terror returned to Buxton yesterday as two men were fatally shot and a toddler wounded by a bullet as police and Guyana Defence Force Special Forces ranks raided the village in search of wanted men. via Stabroek News

Guyana's Ministry of Home Affairs recently launched a new project aimed at decreasing the spread of HIV among prison inmates and reintegrating HIV-positive inmates into society at the end of their sentences, ... via News-Medical.Net

“We intend to take drastic measures against persons found in breach of these offences and to ensure they are properly dealt with and placed before the court.”

Unable to calm an unstable crime situation where murder topped the one hundred mark for the past three years, police have reported that 83 more people have died so far this year in road accidents than at the ... via Stabroek News

“There are emails from Jamaica to Guyanese producers that say they should not supply rice to Jamaica. I would also say that efforts were not made by Jamaica to determine the levels of rice that is available in Jamaica.”

Guyana's president, Bharrat Jagdeo, says that there has been a breakdown in communication resulting in the recent rice trade dispute between his country and Jamaica. via Trinidad & Tobago Express

The ganja and weapons found in the suitcases. In a dramatic turn of events police at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport yesterday morning intercepted two suitcases with firearms, ammunition, two ... via Stabroek News

“I can't see why we can't do it here at Critchlow Labour College”

Part of the audience at the TUC conference last evening Guyanese management consultant Dr Aubrey Armstrong says trade unions have to be creative in the fight to sustain themselves and he slammed the government ... via Stabroek News

“The newspaper would, of course, be expected to print such challenges and respond as it thinks appropriate. That would, essentially, be democracy, freedom of the press and freedom of expression at work”

Veteran Guyanese/Caribbean journalist Rickey Singh in an open letter with a "specific appeal" to President Bharrat Jagdeo is urging him to urgently review the decision that led to the mass withdrawal of public ... via Stabroek News

Writing her regular column in the Weekend Mirror newspaper of 6-7 October, former president Mrs Janet Jagan stirred the ashes of the smouldering controversy about the fatal fire in which members of the Abraham ... via Stabroek News

“The system for the allocation of state ads, paid for with taxpayers money must be fair and transparent, which the present system is not”

The Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights is still to receive a response from the Guyana government on its reasons for the withdrawal of state advertising ... via Stabroek News

“We are seizing them and have warned the company of confiscation and prosecution”

Mining Commissioner Bill Woolford said dozens of uncut diamonds were seized after representatives from Explorers Trade and Commerce Ltd. via Propaganda press