Guyana News

A crucial statutory meeting of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) scheduled for yesterday was cancelled after two opposition-nominated members requested permission to attend the funeral of long-time PNCR member Winston Bentham.

The National Assembly has removed APNU+AFC MP David Patterson as Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) following the passage by majority of a motion laid by Minister of Governance and Parliamentary Affairs Gail Teixeira.

While the majority of communities in Region Eight have not been severely affected by the countrywide flooding, roads have suffered extensive damage making travel very difficult to some of the remote villages, Regional Executive Officer (REO) Peter Ramotar says.

The opposition APNU+AFC yesterday asked for an explanation on due diligence of the purchase of  Russia’s Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccines, following government’s revelation in the National Assembly on Monday night that the jabs were procured from Dubai’s Sheik Ahmed Dalmook Al-Maktoum who has been linked to the sheltering of a wanted Pakistani national and Norwegian fraudster.

Seven more COVID-19 fatalities were yesterday recorded, increasing the death toll for the month so far to 39.

Canada’s High Commission here is contributing to a programme to assist vulnerable Venezuelan migrant women and girls.

Over 90,000 persons have been fully inoculated against the COVID-19 virus even as Minister of Health, Dr.

The court hearing the trial in the 2017 murder of Cayenne-based clothes vendor Purcell Moore, was told that the accused—Kelvin Persaud and Selwyn Dawson—were seen fleeing the scene after the shooting.

A letter in the June 10th edition of Stabroek News regarding the deplorable condition of Dasrat Street, Triumph Front Lands, has caught the attention of Region Four Chairman, Daniel Seeram, who says that aggregate works will commence on the road this week.

The Ministry of Health has emphatically denied claims that a COVID-19 patient at the Infectious Diseases  Hospital at Liliendaal was not fed for four days.

Georgetown Mayor Ubraj Narine has reiterated the need for businesses operating in the city to pay their fair share of taxes, while saying that the municipality is currently receiving a quarter of what it needs to function.

A murder accused who escaped from the Holding Bay at the Lusignan Prison last April was yesterday sentenced to 18 months in jail.

Sentenced to 60 years back in March after being convicted for the 2016 murder of his brother-in-law, Les Charles Critchlow has lodged an appeal to his conviction and sentence, arguing that he did not have a fair trial.

A Ruby Backdam, East Bank Essequibo man was yesterday charged with unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition.

A man was yesterday sentenced to two years in jail after he was found guilty of possession of a firearm and ammunition without being a licensed firearm holder.

A security guard was fined and bonded to keep the peace on Monday after she admitted to using abusive language toward her son’s girlfriend.

Sixteen-year-old Vishwanauth Doodnauth, who was hit down by a minibus in a hit-and-run just over a week ago at Mon Repos Public Road, has been discharged from the Georgetown Public Hospital and is at home recovering.

The badly decomposed body of an elderly woman was on Sunday found along a trail at Perseverance Backdam, North West District, where vultures were feeding on it. 

Japan has made approximately US$1m available to boost Guyana’s National Flood Early Warning System, the Ministry of Agriculture said yesterday in a release.

The Ministry of Health today said that as of June 14, 2021, seven more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.