Guyana News

Two days after three men were charged, the police last night issued wanted bulletins for three more suspects in last week’s $58 million robbery at Wallison Enterprise in Kitty.

Region Nine Regional Executive Officer (REO) Karl Singh, who recently shot a 25-year-old woman to her abdomen in Lethem, has returned to duty although the Office of the Director of Public Prose-cutions (DPP) is still to advise on whether he is to be charged with a crime.

As the government persists in its attempts to achieve herd immunity in Guyana, Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Dr Narine Singh has submitted new guidelines for vaccine exemptions to Permanent Secretary Malcolm Watkins.

Local health authorities are currently working on procuring vaccines for children in Guyana as final arrangements are being made for the arrival of the Johnson & Johnson and Sputnik V shots, according to Health Minister Dr Frank Anthony.

Although initially saying that they would be unable to operate without concessions, Caribbean Cinemas at the Giftland Mall and MovieTowne Guyana yesterday both announced plans to reopen.

Two new COVID-19 deaths were on Thursday reported, taking the country’s total death count from the virus to 569.

Unrelenting rainfall and overtopping rivers have left the business district of Eteringbang, Cuyuni-Mazaruni, Region Seven, flooded, with water levels as high as three to four feet, Regional Chairman Kenneth Williams yesterday informed.

Oceaneering International on Tuesday disclosed that ExxonMobil’s local affiliate, Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL), has awarded the company a contract to conduct two surveys offshore Guyana.

With the Maersk Discoverer drill ship now expected to arrive in Guyana on Sunday, Frontera Energy on Wednesday said that there has been a delay in the spudding of the Kawa-1 well on the Corentyne Block, offshore Guyana, which has now been pushed back to the end of this month.

Following talks, tractor operators in Region Six, who were hired to pump flood waters from inundated communities during recent flooding, have started to receive payments at the agreed $5,000 per hour rate.

The trial of Matthew Munroe, the taxi driver accused of murdering 23-year-old teacher Kescia Branche back in 2017, is set to commence in two weeks at the High Court in Georgetown.

The Attorney General and the Gibraltar/Fyrish Neighbourhood Democratic Council have filed a lawsuit against a Berbice resident, whom they accuse of fraudulently acquiring state lands.

United Nations (UN) Resident Coordinator Mikiko Tanaka will end her assignment in Guyana this month.

Region Two Regional Health Officer (RHO) Dr Ranjeev Singh on Wednesday disclosed that 10 boats have been constructed under the region’s health budget to boost health services.

The Guyana Fire Service (GFS) on Wednesday received five new fire tenders, which are expected to boost its firefighting operations.

Ameer Samad and Roria Persaud, the two Zorg, Region Two residents who were injured when they crashed into a tree along the Cullen Public Road, remain critical and they have been transferred to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) for further treatment.

A 59-year-old man is currently hospitalised after he was shot during a robbery at ‘C’ Field, Sophia in the wee hours of Wednesday morning.

A labourer is now hospitalised with a fractured skull at the Georgetown Public Hospital, after he was attacked on Tuesday night at Co-op Crescent, Mackenzie, Linden.

A 42-year-old driver was on Tuesday night robbed of the car he was driving, his phone and cash by gunmen, two of whom hired him to drop them off at Plum Park, Sophia, where they ended up holding him up.

Several persons were arrested in connection with the murders of the two mining workers who were found dead last week at Black Water Backdam, Cuyuni River.