Guyana News

(Reuters) – Exxon Mobil Corp said yesterday it appointed former United Airlines and Xerox executive Kathryn Mikells as chief financial officer, effective Aug.

The Guyana National Bureau of Standards today said it had destroyed a large quantity of defective electrical components.

A race on the East Bank of Demerara (EBD) last night killed two persons and left several others injured after a minibus turned over and careened for several yards near the Demerara Distillers Limited Head Office and brewery at Diamond.

A week-old dispute over a pair of scissors has resulted in the death of a Queenstown, Essequibo Coast man and left another person injured.

A Black Bush Polder teacher died yesterday after he collided with a Ministry of Finance vehicle which was allegedly making a U Turn at the time along the Number Three Village, West Coast Berbice Public Road.

A twenty-three-year-old man was on Saturday night shot dead and his friend wounded after the duo walked into what appears to have been an ambush at Linden when they were fired upon from a car.

Rainfall compounded by poor maintenance of sections of the Linden to Bartica Road has left it in a deplorable state making it difficult for users from the logging and mining industries to traverse.

Police Commander, Assistant Commissioner Simon McBean has disclosed that plans are underway to subdivide Police Division 4A into seventeen sectors so as to better handle crime.

The National Association of Agricultural, Commercial and Industrial Employees (NAACIE) on Saturday said that its Executive Council had removed its General Secretary Dawchan Nagasar.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced the appointment of Kemraj Parsram as its new Executive Director.

A New and United Guyana (ANUG) much reach out to both sides of the political divide, according to its General Secretary, Ralph Ramkarran.

The Ministry of Health yesterday said that as of July 17, 2021, three more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

Tenders were on July 13th opened at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board for the construction of the Moleson Creek to El Dorado Road.

Despite the numerous challenges that the COVID-19 pandemic has presented, Commissioner Newell Dennison believes that the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) has been doing a satisfactory job in carrying out its functions and has announced that the entity is now offering some of its services online.

The National Community Policing Group (CPG) held its elections on July 17th at the Leonora Secondary School on the West Coast of Demerara and Kishore Gobin was re-elected as Chairman.

The three men suspected of robbing a fifty-seven-year-old businesswoman at Rockstone/Mabura Access Road on Friday night were on Saturday arrested by police.

Two sisters, who Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) officers say had cannabis amounting to 518.7 grammes, in their possession, were on Friday refused bail.

A mason charged with armed robbery was on Wednesday remanded by a City Magistrate after the Court heard that he had been positively identified by the virtual complainant.

The Ministry of Health today said that as of July 17, 2021, three more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

Delron McKenzie, 23, of Roxanne Burnham Gardens, Georgetown was shot dead in Linden last night in what appears to be an ambush.