Guyana News

Jamaica-based business process outsourcer (BPO) itel says it has acquired the Emerge BPO here.

A sales representative was yesterday charged with causing the death of Stephen Bishop on Sunday in an accident at Providence.

`We got to be more skilled, we got to be more confident and we got to be more courageous’ Saying that the Guyana Fire Service (GFS) has to be “capable, aware, trained and engaged” in addressing its existing challenges, Minister of Home Affairs Robeson Benn said that efforts are underway to boost the capacity and capability of the organisation including enhanced public awareness and prevention measures.

A University of Guyana student was on Tuesday charged with causing the death of Kenneth Smith, who was struck down while on his way to purchase a lottery ticket at De Willem, West Coast Demerara.

With the repaired flash gas compressor system re-installed on the Liza Destiny Floating, Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) platform, oil production has returned to normal, Chief Operating Officer of Hess Corporation, Greg Hill has said.

Arguing that the President is immune from suit, Attorney General Anil Nandlall SC has filed an application asking the High Court to exclude President Irfaan Ali who has been listed as a respondent in the action brought by the Police Service Commission (PSC) regarding the annual promotion of police officers.

Home Affairs Minister,  Robeson Benn has created a National Team that will address trafficking of firearms and ammunition.

Tenders were on Tuesday opened at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board for the Construction of the Bamia/Amelia’s Ward Primary School in Region Ten.

Construction of the 190 low-income homes in the Cummings Lodge scheme remains on schedule.

Minister of Public Works, Juan Edghill and Minister within the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development Anand Persaud on Tuesday recommissioned McDougal and Owen Streets in Kitty, Georgetown.

Guyana has recorded three more COVID-19 fatalities all of whom are women.

Some 15,000 second doses of the Sputnik V vaccine have arrived in Guyana for the month of July allowing the Ministry of Health (MoH) to continue with its inoculation drive.

Chief Executive Officer of Hess Corporation John Hess yesterday reiterated that Guyana is key to the Company’s long-term strategy with multiple phases of low cost oil developments to come online during the next several years.

(Trinidad Guardian) A 25-year-old Guyanese woman has been fined TT$15,000 for evading immigration officers at the Piarco International Airport with the alleged assistance of a security guard.

A one-year-old baby boy was on Tuesday discovered by his mother floating in a fish pond at Sand Pit, Onderneeming, Essequibo Coast.

Two men facing separate multiple armed robbery charges were yesterday remanded by a City Magistrate.

A man and a woman who are facing multiple charges including assaulting peace officers and threatening behaviour were yesterday granted bail.

Police are investigating an alleged attempt to commit a felony on a 63-year-old male of Number Sixty-Three Village, Corentyne on July 16th by four masked men who were armed. 

The Ministry of Health today said that as of July 27, 2021, three more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab today announced that the UK is sending 84,800 doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to Guyana as part of the first batch of the 100 million doses the UK pledged to get the poorest parts of the world vaccinated as a matter of urgency.