Guyana News

An alleged hit and run along Main Street, New Amsterdam, on Saturday around 7 pm has left a pedestrian hospitalised with a fractured skull at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

A twenty-three-year-old Pigeon Island pedal cyclist is currently a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) nursing injuries he received after he allegedly rode into the path of a car on the Chateau Margot Public Road, East Coast Demerara, Saturday night.

Unrelenting showers over the past two days have resulted in flood waters rising in the Mahaicony and Abary rivers further contributing to plight of residents in the Mahaicony/Mahaica/Abary (MMA) Development area.

International Norwegian-based global marine insurance company, Gard, has expressed concerns over the transshipment of bauxite from Guyana which showed significant signs of high moisture content on arrival at a port in the US back in June.

The United Arab Emirates Sheikh Ahmed Dalmook Juma Al Maktoum’s delegation that visited here in November of last year to seal a deal for Sputnik vaccines had returned later last year to look at agriculture investments but have not been heard from since, according to Minister of Agriculture Zulfikar Mustapha.

Region Two Regional Executive Officer Devanand Ramdatt is refuting an article that has surfaced on social media (Facebook) which he says is aimed at defaming his character.

Three persons from Region Four who had tested positive for COVID-19 have died, taking the overall death toll to 559 while another 50 persons have tested positive for the virus.

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

Government has issued an order for the acquisition of land needed for the proposed construction of the onshore gas pipeline that is part of the US$900 million gas to energy project, which has been declared a public work.

The probe into how land was allocated at ‘Pradoville 2’ to PPP/C government officials, including current Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo, and the cases that were subsequently filed have all been terminated and the office which was pursuing the matter under the former APNU+AFC administration has been disbanded, according to Attorney General Anil Nandlall.

As the probe into last week’s multi-million dollar robbery at gold trader Wallison Enterprise widens, investigators have recovered evidence at the Sophia home of one of the suspects.

Under the newly gazetted civil aviation health and safety regulations, travellers seeking entry to Guyana will only be required to have been inoculated with a single dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.

The Health Ministry has spent the last 10 months rebuilding its monitoring system to ensure it is effective in its forecasting in order to avert drug shortages, according to Permanent Secretary Malcolm Watkins.

Guyana was one of 13 CARICOM countries that objected to and threatened boycott of a hastily called special virtual meeting by the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) to address the situation in Cuba as it believed it would serve no purpose, Minister of Foreign Affairs Hugh Todd has confirmed.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) yesterday announced that two more persons who were infected with COVID-19 have died.

Insurance coverage for the planned US$900 million gas to energy project will be dependent on the findings of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) should the project be approved, Executive Director of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Kemraj Parsram has said.

With the topside integration phase completed and the onshore commissioning campaign making significant progress, SBM Offshore is currently mobilizing the Liza Unity Floating, Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) oil platform for departure to Guyana planned for the end of this month.

Although the Animal Welfare Act states that persons committing offences against animals will be liable to fines and prison time if convicted, suspected perpetrators are rarely if ever brought to justice.

Minister of Education Priya Manickchand has announced that the eligibility deadline qualifying new entrants into the public education system for the Government of Guyana’s “Because We Care” cash grant has been extended in order to benefit more students.

Blossom Inc in collaboration with the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees (UNHCR) last month conducted outreaches on Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) and Sexual and Gender- Based violence (SGBV) in the Moruca sub-district of Region One.