Guyana News

Guyana’s COVID-19 fatalities have risen by four to 466. The Ministry of Health announced the deaths in a press release yesterday.

A man who police say pointed a gun at a constable outside of a Burger King was denied bail yesterday after a city magistrate heard that he has similar charges pending in the court system.

The government has promised assistance to Kevin Phillips, the owner of the vulcanizing shop at the corner of D’Urban and George streets, Werk-en-Rust which was destroyed in a fire on Thursday last.

With animals battling to survive in the heavily submerged Kokerite Savan-nah, one cattle farmer in Black Bush Polder recently said that he witnessed a man dealing chops to his five cows and one bull on a dam in the front areas – the result of ongoing conflict with rice growers.

Guided by their motto: “Every animal deserves a second chance,” Winella and Allan Greene are on a mission to rescue strays and dream of one day acquiring a plot of land to establish an animal sanctuary.

First Lady Arya Ali yesterday kept  a commitment made to a local animal welfare group and presented it with a mobile animal clinic and rescue unit.

Members of the Rastafari-an community yesterday continued to protest for the suspension of jail sentences for the possession of small amounts of cannabis along with its use being respected as a religious right.

Tenders were on Tuesday opened at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board for the Rehabilitation and Retrofitting of the Guyana Marketing Corporation’s packing facility at Parika along with other projects.

The Local Government Commission last Friday met with acting Town Clerk Sherry Jerrick and three of the City Council’s Department heads and requested information on the supervision of the city’s drainage infrastructure, garbage collection schedules and defaulting taxpayers.

One person was confirmed dead after a mining pit at Black Water Backdam, Mazaruni, caved in yesterday afternoon.

Troy Glasgow, an East Ruimveldt man who was charged with committing two knife-point robberies, was yesterday sentenced to 18 months in jail after being found guilty of the crimes.

A man was yesterday placed on $75,000 bail after he was charged with sexual assault.

The Guyana Government today rejected a purported list of police promotions by the Police Service Commission (PSC).

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

Chief Justice (ag) Roxane George-Wiltshire SC this afternoon ruled that there is nothing unlawful in the Police Service Commission considering pending disciplinary matters as a bar to police promotions.

Kareem Powley, 20, of  Tucville, North East La Penitence died last night after a motorbike accident on Mandela Avenue.

A twenty-six-year-old woman of Parfait Harmonie, West Bank Demerara died last night after she was beaten and stabbed by a man she shares a relationship with.

The theft of fuel appeared to be behind the deaths of three men in an explosion at a wharf at Friendship on the East Bank of Demerara on Saturday as several laden jars were found in the trunk of a car belonging to one of the deceased The deceased have since been identified as sixty-year-old boat captain of Beehive, Essequibo, Seepersaud Persaud; twenty-nine-year-old sailor Damion Dias of Sarah Johanna, Region Four and White Water, Region One and forty-year-old sailor, Mark Mangal of Riverstown, Essequibo Coast.

A clause in government’s environmental permit for the upcoming Payara Well may give ExxonMobil carte blanche to flare continuously for free thus dimming any hope of Guyana collecting on the US$30 per tonne of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2 eq) fine it has imposed for flaring over 60 days, former EPA Director Dr.

Decriminalising homosexuality here is a critical first step in protecting the rights of LGBTIQ+ persons and facilitating fairness and equality before the law, according to Resident Co-ordinator, United Nations Guyana, Mikiko Tanaka.