Guyana News

Preparations are being made to facilitate the relocation of staff occupying the City Hall building in order to begin its restoration.

The Ministry of Health says that as of July 08, 2021, three more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

The three men who are accused of setting fire to the building that housed the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) office in Linden last year were this afternoon charged and remanded to prison.

On June 4, 2021, in keeping with an aid agreement between the Korea Customs Service (KCS) and the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA), a delegation of six consultants from KCS visited the GRA and began consultations for the modernisation of the Guyana Customs Administration. 

  Chief Election Officer (CEO) Keith Lowenfield has approached the High Court to have government-nominated Commissioners Sase Gunraj and Bibi Shadick barred from voting on the motion brought for his dismissal.

The gap between the two shots of the Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine can be extended up to 180 days and it will remain effective, the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) said today, according to Reuters.

The disclosure by ExxonMobil that the natural gas extracted from its oilfields as part of operations for the US$900 million Wales gas-to-shore project will be sold to third parties before the remainder is transported to the planned power plant to be owned by the Government caused quite a stir during one of the company’s public scoping meetings leaving many calling for more project details to be provided.

Almost a year after a fire destroyed the upper part of a building at Wismar, Linden which housed the Guyana Elections Com-mission (GECOM) office, police have arrested two suspects who they say have since admitted their involvement in the crime and implicated two others, including the suspected mastermind, who is yet to be arrested.

Efforts are underway to hold a delegates-only Con-gress in October in deference to COVID-19 protocols and in obser-vance of the 64th Anniver-sary of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR).

A 51-year-old farmer succumbed on Wednesday afternoon, hours after he was allegedly attacked by his nephew during an argument over plantains at Leguan Island, Essequibo River.

The badly decomposed body of an Epsom man, who was reported missing on July 4, was yesterday found in the backlands.

Guyana is set to receive US$1.8 million from The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to assist with managing COVID-19 in the country.

One hundred and twelve new COVID-19 cases were yesterday recorded along with two more fatalities.

The trial of Afibia Yankana and Akeem Haymer who are accused of the 2017 fatal bus park stabbing of Rawle Rodrigues, is set to commence on Tuesday, July 13th before Justice Sandil Kissoon at the High Court in Georgetown.

The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) is appealing to the Ministry of Labour to address the plight of the workers at Demerara Timbers Limited (DTL) who have reported “serious concerns” to the union.

Thirty adolescent mothers in Region One (Barima-Waini) have completed a Ministry of Education (MoE) programme which has equipped them with skills in cookery, enabling them to gain employment or start their own business.

It has been seven weeks since robbery accused Peter Headley was fatally shot by a policeman and the authorities remain tightlipped about the probe.

The trial of Devon Thomas and Cabesh Persaud who are accused of causing the deaths of 10 persons in a boat crash back in 2013 is set to commence on Tuesday July, 13th at the High Court at Suddie.

The Ministry of Health today said that as July 07, 2021, two more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

The Ministry of Agriculture yesterday inked over $340m in contracts including three for the purchase of equipment for GuySuCo.