Guyana News

Having seen the “profound impact” of recent floods on communities across Guyana, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) recently donated US$30,000 ($6.2m) to the Guyana Red Cross Society and the Civil Defence Commission (CDC).

Another COVID-19 death was yesterday reported along with 128 new cases of the virus.

Arrangements for the second dose of Sputnik V shots are still being made even as the COVID-19 vaccination programme in the country continues.

Heavy rain yesterday morning caused deep flooding in parts of the city giving a taste  – as on Tuesday – of the plight facing large parts of the country.

Four persons are now homeless after their two-storey wooden house at Beterverwagting, East Coast Demerara was completely destroyed by a fire of an unknown origin yesterday morning.

The Ministry of Home Affairs yesterday signed contracts worth an estimated $1.2b for the reconstruction of the Lusignan Prison Lots 1-3.

Minister of Agriculture,  Zulfikar Mustapha yesterday condemned what he called acts of sabotage of the flood control embankment in the backlands at Letter Kenny, exacerbating flooding in agricultural areas along the Corentyne Coast.

“We are all set and ready to go” were the words of president of the Athletic Association of Guyana (AAG), Aubrey Hutson yesterday regarding the three-day National Senior Championships which gets off to a fast start tomorrow at the National Track and Field Centre.

 Otis McCurdy who admitted being part of a group back in 2016 that fatally beat a pork knocker; was yesterday morning sentenced to 10 years in prison by Justice Navindra Singh, before whom he appeared at the High Court in Suddie.

Tenders were on May 25th opened at the National Procurement & Tender Administration Board for the extension of the Aishalton Public Hospital in Region Nine among other projects.

A man has been hospitalized in a critical condition at the Fort Wellington Hospital after he was chopped and beaten by two men at the Rosignol Fishery, West Bank Berbice yesterday morning.

A Black Bush Polder businessman was on Tuesday fined $15,000 after he and a Corentyne pandit were charged with breaching the Covid-19 guidelines in early May.

Homes are to be constructed for young professionals at Plantation Little/Great Diamond, Plantation Prospect and Plantation Providence, all on the East Bank of Demerara, according to Minister of Housing and Water Collin Croal.

A total of 10,000 COVID-19 cash grants were distributed in Region Four areas from December 28th to December 30th, last year.

The Guyana Court of Appeal has commenced hearing arguments on its disputed jurisdiction over the appeal filed by former Guyana Defence Force (GDF) coastguards Sherwyn Hart, Deon Greenidge and Devon Gordon who are challenging the death penalty imposed against them for the 2009 murder of Bartica gold dealer Dweive Kant Ramdass.

Vice-President Bharrat Jagdeo was unsuccessful in his application to set aside the $20M default judgment he had been ordered to pay former government minister Annette Ferguson who had sued him for libel.

President Irfaan Ali today  instructed the Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs Anil Nandlall SC MP to “immediately review all service and maintenance contracts within the sphere of the Government of Guyana and the entire State structure, in relation to drainage pumps, sluices, kokers and drainage and irrigation”, a statement from the Office of the President said.

The Ministry of Public Works today informed that Eastern Airlines LLC has advised that it is withdrawing scheduled air services to Guyana and as such its bond will be liquidated to cover liabilities to passengers.

President Irfaan Ali today expressed sadness at the passing of Lennox Canterbury, Former Director of the Mash Secretariat.

“Some days all me and my husband eat is bare rice.