Guyana News

Two pastors were yesterday afternoon robbed at gunpoint by two suspects on a motorcycle on Sheriff Street, Georgetown, while they were heading to a supermarket.

By the end of this year Guyana could have approximately US$500 million in its Natural Resource Fund (NRF), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has stated in its first quarterly report for 2021.

Besides interrupting residents’ lives, flooding caused by torrential rainfall in Region Ten is affecting the region’s agricultural sector with many reporting loss of crops and poultry, Chairman Deron Adams has said.

Members of the Guyanese diaspora will have the opportunity this weekend to engage with senior functionaries on ways to contribute to Guyana’s development at the PPP/C government’s inaugural diaspora conference.

Fishermen working from the Rosignol wharf are calling for President Irfaan Ali’s intervention in ensuring that immediate repairs are carried out on it, since they are claiming that the interim management team which was set up in 2019 has failed to do anything and it is currently in a poor state.

A 51-year-old taxi driver was yesterday afternoon carjacked by three suspects in Festival City, North Ruimveldt, Georgetown, one of whom boarded his taxi as a passenger.

Health Minister Dr Frank Anthony yesterday stated that the Ministry of Health is considering extending the operating hours for vaccination sites in Georgetown.

Four Indian companies have been pre-qualified by the Government of India to tender for the construction of the Ogle to Eccles four-lane highway funded by the India’s Exim Bank, Minister of Public Works Juan Edghill recently announced.

Keevin D’Oliveira was on Monday granted bail in the sum of $80,000 on a possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking charge.

Four men including a 37-year-old have succumbed to COVID-19. The Ministry of Health today said that the latest deaths take the COVID fatality figure to 349.

The Ministry of Education today announced that two Queen’s College students are the top performers at the regional level for the 2020 Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) and Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) assessments.

Cuban national Lopez Cardenas  Yoesmarita, 40,  was stabbed to death this morning on Charlotte Street.

Five persons who are accused of forging several cheques to the value of $19.4 million in the name of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) were yesterday brought before the court and charged.

Approximately 7,000 persons were inoculated against COVID-19 on Monday, increasing the total number of persons receiving first and second doses in the country.

Three seamen who were arrested for the murder of Marcus Julius Thomas who was killed at his Kuru Kururu Sandpit, Soesdyke-Linden Highway home were on Monday charged with the capital offence.

Three men who were on trial before Justice Jo Ann Barlow and a jury at the High Court in Berbice for a murder committed on a Crabwood Creek man in 2015 were yesterday found guilty.

Opposition Leader Joseph Harmon has written to international agencies complaining of government’s approval of the destruction of mangroves by Tristar Inc at Versailles/Malgre Tout, West Bank Demerara.

Another one of Republic Bank’s customers is calling for the bank’s swift intervention to retrieve money that has gone missing from his account due to unauthorised online transactions and the bank in a public notice has since announced that transactions proven to be fraudulent will see reimbursement.

With gold ore plummeting in two key pits, Troy Resources Limited on Monday announced that processing activities could cease in August or Septem-ber at its Region Seven site until a delayed underground mine project gets underway.

Guyana’s COVID-19 deaths now stand at 345 and 102 new cases were reported.