Guyana News

President Bharrat Jagdeo and Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar met yesterday in the Twin-Island republic and discussed agriculture and oil cooperation but said that relocating the proposed smelter from the southwestern Trinidad town of La Brea to Guyana was never on the agenda.

It took Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee more than a week after the killing of 16 year-old Patentia schoolboy Kelvin Fraser to concede that the policeman who fired the fatal bullet acted improperly.

Guyana-China relations have remained friendly for nearly forty years. Will they get stronger? The announcement of the appointment of an ambassador of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana to the People's Republic of China was a bolt from the blue.

A post-mortem examination performed on the passenger who fell as he was boarding a Caribbean Airlines flight bound for New York on Saturday showed that he died from cerebral haemorrhage and a fractured skull.

No Local Top CoP Three foreigners nominated for Police Commissioner PSC chairman: Change law on picking top cop Chairman of the Police Service Commission Christopher Thomas has said maybe the time has come for Government to change the law regarding the selection process for the role of Police Commissioner.

'Guyana would possibly consider a proposal for the relocation of an aluminium smelter project from Trinidad and Tobago,' Guyana Prime Minister Samuel Hinds said yesterday.

The captain of the vessel, Captain Lloyd 97, Cane Grove, Mahaica resident Delbert Williams, remains missing as search efforts to locate him yesterday were unsuccessful.

The US State Department yesterday stood firmly behind its 2010 trafficking in persons report on Guyana even as the government here has indicated its intention to take its protest against the report to the US Congress in an effort to "correct these misleading reports." Ambassador-at-Large Luis C de Baca of the Office to Monitor and Combat ...

For the third month in a row, as seen in the graph above, the Guyana Times has secured more Government Information Agency advertisements than the Kaieteur News .

Dhanchand Balkishun, the departing passenger who died after a fall at the Timehri airport on Saturday never reached the steps of the aircraft, according to a statement yesterday from the Cheddi Jagan International Airport Corporation.

Not afraid of heights: A worker straddling an arm of a lantern post in Lethem 30 feet high.

The last column noted that politics and economics are intimately connected. This is the notion of political economy.

Guyana President Bharrat Jagdeo was appalled and very concerned about a newspaper story in the Daily Express which claimed he was expected in T&T yesterday to discuss the relocation of an aluminium smelter plant from La Brea in T&T to Guyana.

The private sector in Guyana is welcoming the proposed relocation of the smelter plant in Trinidad to their country.

Another month, another suitcase of cocaine glides unhindered through three layers of Guyana's airport security and lands safely in the United States.

A passenger who fell and struck his head on Saturday, while boarding a Caribbean Airlines plane at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport , Timehri, died on Sunday morning at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

Walter Rodney Moreover, the committee is inviting members of the public to visit the memorial site at their convenience and a oerekindle their memories of Walter Rodney as they view the inscriptions relating to his life and work,a a press release stated.

Kamla, jagdeo to talk smelter Guyana President Bharrat Jagdeo flies in tonight and is expected to hold talks with Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar tomorrow on a number of issues, including the prospect of relocating the aluminium smelter plant initially proposed for La Brea to Guyana.

Construction of the access road and the transmission line to the proposed site for the Amaila Falls Hydroelectric Project has been timetabled to start next month, although it is unclear whether Synergy Holdings is in a position to begin the project as scheduled.

While GuySuCo's first crop production was around 10,000 tonnes below its revised first crop figure it fell considerably below what its turnaround plan had envisaged and former shadow minister of agriculture, Anthony Vieira has refuted the view that the low output is attributable to the arid El Nino weather.