Guyana News

Home Affairs Minister Robeson Benn has ordered a probe of the dragging of a detainee on the floor at the Wales Police Station on Friday.

A twenty-two-year-old pillion rider died yesterday following a collision on Saturday night between the motorcycle she was on and a car at the intersection of Brickdam and Brummel Place.

The USAID Eastern and Southern Caribbean Mission and the Guyana Economic Development Trust (GEDT) have launched an incubator and accelerator for Guyanese agro-processors.

The US$400,000 Chicken ‘n’ Burger Delight restaurant was declared open at Leonora, West Coast Demerara (WCD) on Saturday.

President Irfaan Ali and a delegation virtually attended the Eleventh Meeting of the Prime Ministerial Sub-Committee on the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) on Friday, where he provided an update on the Special Ministerial Taskforce (MTF) on Food Production and Food Security.

After weeks of being flooded, water has completely receded from communities in the Pomeroon River and the Region Two Council is currently verifying and assessing the damage left behind, Chairman Vilma Da Silva said.

A fifty-year-old Brazilian national was on Saturday robbed of a quantity of gold by three identifiable Venezuelan suspects he had employed last week.

The Ministry of Health yesterday reported that there were 103 new cases of COVID-19 but no further deaths were recorded.

Handed two life sentences back in May for the killing of two men whom he shot, Orpheus Johnson has lodged an appeal with the Guyana Court of Appeal in which he complains that the sentences are severe.

The Embassy of the Sovereign Military Hospitalier Order of St John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta on June 19th engaged in another medical outreach to Port Kaituma as part of its efforts to reach out to the vulnerable in our society.

The Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development today issued an invitation for bids for the restoration of City Hall.

With a rigid two-year construction completion date among the over 250 technical and financial questions raised by pre-qualified bidders for the New Demerara River Bridge (NDRB) project, the Ministry of Public Works will tomorrow morning host a pre-bid meeting to iron out the issues, ahead of the August 3 deadline for bid submissions.

As they count their losses from the “worst flooding” in their lifetime, Abary River rice and cattle farmers on Saturday renewed their calls for government to fulfill its promise to desilt and clear overgrown vegetation in the river to improve drainage.

Three men are now dead after a boat used to transport fuel burst into flames while they were doing maintenance work at the Friendship Wharf, on the East Bank of Demerara, yesterday afternoon.

With the impact assessment for the US$900 million Wales gas-to-shore project imminent, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Friday invited public submissions on the scope of the study for the project, which is intended to begin operations in 2024.

The opposition APNU+AFC coalition has criticised the government’s decision to refuse a flood relief consignment from Trinidad and Tobago and to request pumps in its stead.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) on Saturday reported the deaths of three more men who were infected with COVID-19.

A 56-year-old Met-en-Meerzorg, West Coast Demerara woman is now dead after she was struck down by a truck while crossing the De Kindren Public Road on Friday afternoon.

Kevin Phillips, the owner of the vulcanizing shop at the corner of D’Urban and George streets, Werk-en-Rust, has identified the men who started the fire that gutted his home and business in the wee hours of last Thursday The fire, which also destroyed another house and damaged the western side of Elegance Jewellery and Pawn Shop, was started around 1 am by two men, who were recorded by nearby security cameras.

Sections of Washclothes, Mahaicony, will be empoldered as flood waters remain stagnant in some areas.