Guyana News

Two men who died in an accident at Airy Hall, Essequibo on August 1st suffered multiple injuries, their autopsies showed.

Twenty-eight cases of suspected human trafficking were investigated by the Guyana Police Force from last August to April of this year.

Approximately $80 million has been invested for the drilling of two wells in Region Seven, as the Ministry of Housing and Water aims to achieve 95 percent hinterland water coverage.

A convicted robber was yesterday remanded after he denied two armed robbery charges.

Yesterday morning, a six-member Interim Management Committee (IMC) was installed for the Guyana National Co-operative Credit Union Limited (GNCCUL) in the Ministry of Labour’s boardroom, Lot 82 Brickdam St.

Two former employees of Gafsons Industries Limited have been released on $150,000 bail each after they denied stealing air conditioning units from the company and conspiring to defraud it.

A homeless man yesterday asked to do community service instead of serving time in jail after admitting to stealing a woman’s purse.

A man was yesterday placed on $25,000 bail after he denied snatching a woman’s purse containing articles amounting to $68,000.

High Court Judge Gino Persaud has said that he will first hear and determine the application filed by Attorney General Anil Nandlall SC to strike President Irfaan Ali’s name from the action brought by the Police Service Commission (PSC) regarding the annual promotion of police officers, before dealing with the substantive matter.

The Black Entrepreneurs Association (BEA) of the US on Tuesday met with President Irfaan Ali and raised questions as it relates to diversity, inclusion and other areas.

A pedestrian is now hospitalised with injuries to his head and body, after he was struck down in an accident on Tuesday at Floor Main Access Road, Port Kaituma, North West District.

The Ministry of Health today said that as August 03, 2021, two more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Delays in international deliveries of the second dose of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine will be fully resolved this month, the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), responsible for the shot’s marketing abroad, said in a statement today.

An overseas-based Guyanese was this morning found dead in the heavily ransacked upper flat of his Reliance Settlement, East Canje, Berbice house.

Fifteen companies yesterday submitted technical and financial proposals at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board to provide marketing services for Guyana’s oil entitlement from the Liza Destiny Floating, Production, Storage and Offloading vessel. 

The two captains of the boats which collided in the Mazaruni River back in 2013, claiming the lives of 10 persons have both been found not guilty of causing the deaths.

Chairman of the Local Government Commission (LGC) Julius Faerber yesterday maintained his position that he had the authority to unilaterally appoint junior staff member Candace Nelson to act as Town Clerk of the Mayor and City Council (M&CC), saying that the appointment will be up for ratification at the Commission’s next statutory meeting this month end and if it is opposed then it will be rescinded.

Black Bush Polder has been earmarked by Umami Incorporated for a multi-million dollar agro-processing facility which is expected to be a boon to the farmers in the region.

For chemical burns sustained to her fingers, Tanesha Fredericks who worked as a utilities cleaner, has been granted a default judgment against locally operated Trinidad oil company—Centipede Offshore (Guyana) Inc.,

A woman has died after she was struck down in the early hours of yesterday morning along Homestretch Avenue, in Georgetown.