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The construction of the India-funded Eccles to Ogle road is one step closer as four firms have been short-listed to bid and the development comes even as this country made inroads in negotiating for increased local content participation.
A 22-year-old teacher from Sand Creek in the South Rupununi who was infected with COVID-19 is the latest to succumb to the virus.
Lakeram Mangal who was hospitalised following the deadly crash at Fort Wellington on June 14th succumbed at the Georgetown Public Hospital yesterday.
The wet season had come but having lived forty-nine years close to the banks of the Mazaruni River without a tale of flooding to tell her five children, this was not a concern for Christine George.
A twenty-three-year-old man died after he was stabbed following an altercation at a birthday party which the twenty-one-year-old suspect was also at.
The Ministry of Health yesterday said that three more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died, including two from Region Nine.
While floodwaters in Region Five are slowly receding, the majority of the riverine communities remain inundated, Chairman Vickchand Ramphal says.
High Court judge Fidela Corbin-Lincoln last month set aside a default judgment she had previously granted to engineer Charles Ceres and his wife, Ndibi Schwiers, owing to the failure of the Guyana Times to file a defence in the stipulated time in a libel suit they had brought against the newspaper.
A fifteen-year-old is currently a patient at the Suddie Public Hospital after he was struck down by a car on Saturday night.
A man changing a tyre, two passengers and a minibus driver were injured on Saturday evening as a result of an accident involving three vehicles along the Port Mourant Public Road, Corentyne, Berbice.
A Blueberry Hill, Linden businesswoman is missing after the boat she was travelling in capsized in the Takutu River on Friday night while returning from Brazil where she had gone to purchase goods.
Tenders were on June 10th opened at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board for the supply of materials and construction of steel beds for the Guyana Prison Service.
Above normal rainfall is expected for the remainder of the rainy season and authorities on Friday said regions One and Two are areas of major concern ahead of the downpours forecast for today and tomorrow.
The Embassy of France in Suriname and Guyana on Friday announced that the French Regional Intervention Platform for the Americas and the Caribbean, part of the French Red Cross, has consolidated and shipped a large donation to Guyana, considering the ongoing floods here and the disaster that has been declared.
Hundreds of dislocated households along the Aruka and Koberimo rivers in Region One have received emergency relief as the government continues to strengthen its flood response.
Minister of Agriculture, Zulfikar Mustapha on Saturday heard complaints about extension services in Region Six and reiterated the government’s position that all flood-affected farmers will receive support to rebuild their livelihoods.
A Grove man was on June 8 sentenced to ten months behind bars after he confessed to stealing two cellphones along with money from a man.
A bus conductor on June 8th confessed to helping a man steal a quantity of beverages belonging to a woman that were left under a tree and was sentenced to six months in jail.
A taxi driver was on June 8th released on $200,000 bail after he denied trafficking 703 grammes of marijuana.
A man who is accused of stealing a circular saw was placed on $25,000 bail after denying the charge.
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