Guyana News

As the water rises once again at the Kwakwani riverfront, Region Ten Councillor Elroy Adolph maintains that the community must be relocated to higher ground.

Tenders were on Tuesday opened at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) for the construction of a pump station to irrigate the front lands of Black Bush Polder, in Berbice, estimated to cost almost $900 million.

With more communities along the Cuyuni River being flooded, Regional Chairman Kenneth Williams has expressed concern about the devastation it could wreak on the region’s economy.

The United States Government has donated 5.5 million Pfizer vaccines to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), of which 1.5 million doses have been allocated to Haiti, with the other 4 million earmarked for distribution among 14 CARICOM countries. 

The Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) is expected to begin procuring COVID-19 vaccines in an attempt to improve access to vaccines in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Guyana has recorded another COVID-19 fatality along with 100 new cases of the virus.

Police on Thursday detained a number of motorcyclists and pedal cyclists, who were found in breach of various traffic offences.

The Guyana Power and Light Company (GPL) on Friday said power outages that affected Kingston and contiguous areas in Georgetown on Thursday may have been caused by an excavator coming into contact with primary conductors near its Kingston Power Plant.

Staff of the Maritime Administration (MARAD) that were granted time off to be inoculated against the COVID-19 virus are back at work, Communications Officer Akousa McPherson said yesterday.

The hull for the Prosperity Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) unit is now moored next to the Liza Unity at the Keppel yard in Singapore as SBM Offshore prepares to commence with the next phase of construction.

A man involved in the attack carried out on a labourer on Tuesday night at Co-op Crescent, Mackenzie, Linden, was yesterday remanded to prison on an attempted murder charge.

A man was yesterday fined $80,000 after he pleaded guilty to wounding another man in what he said was a knife fight.

A man was recently granted bail after denying a charge of robbery with aggravation.

A Guyana Police Force Corporal was on Friday remanded to prison on three charges of engaging in corrupt transactions, after allegedly collecting money with the promise of making arrangements to have a prisoner released.

A woman was recently released on $30,000 bail after a city magistrate heard that she allegedly threatened and assaulted another woman.

The US Embassy today announced the donation by the United States Government of 57,600 doses of the Astra Zeneca COVID-19 vaccine as part of the Biden-Harris Administration’s global efforts to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Government of Guyana through the Guyana Office for Investment has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Caribbean International Distributors Inc.,

As investigators continue to hunt for the two gunmen who killed Brazilian Euclid Da Silva on Tuesday night, a known individual who is accused of recently threatening the dead man’s son surrendered to the police yesterday.

After more than two months of manoeuvring, the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) yesterday approved motions to terminate the employment contracts of the Chief Election Officer (CEO) Keith Lowenfield, Deputy Chief Election Officer (DCEO) Roxanne Myers and Region Four Returning Officer (RO) Clairmont Mingo.

Lindeners against the restrictions on access to health services in Region Ten aborted plans for continued protests and cleared a blockade from the Mackenzie/Wismar Bridge on Wednesday night after government decided to relax vaccine requirements.