Guyana News

The Guyana Learning Channel on Friday officially its new ‘Whiz Kids’ game show, which is currently aimed at helping Grade Six students prepare for their upcoming national assessment.

A shop owner was shot yesterday after a scuffle between two men at his Mango Landing, Cuyuni, Essequibo River business ended in gunplay.

An-18-year-old man was chopped to his head on Friday after an argument with a drinking partner.

Marics and Company Limited on Friday donated $1 million to the Civil Defence Commission (CDC) to aid its flood relief programme.

Aircraft landing at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri (CJIA) in poor visibility conditions will soon be guided in more safely when the recently installed $200 million Instrument Landing System (ILS) at the facility comes on stream.

Twenty-two young technicians were on Thursday issued their retrofitter licences after completing a six-week training exercise at the Government Technical Institute (GTI).

Minister of Local Government and Regional Development Nigel Dharamlall on Friday handed over a $35 million subvention to 14 Region Three Neighbourhood Democratic Councils (NDCs) to improve their services.

The Ministry of Health is seeking bids for the rehabilitation and conversion of what used to be the Ocean View Convention Centre into a quarantine and treatment facility.

With the current “ZZ” series coming to an end, the Guyana Revenue Authority’s License Revenue Office (GRA) will soon begin registration of motor vehicles in the “PAB” series.

The Ministry of Health today said that as of June 25, 2021, three more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

By Marcelle Thomas and Readawne Henery Faced with a renewed protest by members of the Rastafarian community for movement on the removal of custodial sentences for the possession of small amounts of marijuana, Attorney General Anil Nandlall yesterday urged patience.

A youth was fatally stabbed on Friday morning during an altercation with an older brother at Cummings Street, Bourda.

The police have issued a wanted bulletin for Gladwin Henry, who is being sought for questioning over the murder of West Berbice teenager Haresh Singh.

High Court Judge Damone Younge last Thursday granted a default judgement against the administration of the privately-run Mae’s School to halt construction of an annex to extend its operations.

While reporting “steady progress” in the uptake of second doses of COVID-19 vaccines, Health Minister Dr Frank Anthony on Friday stressed the need for citizens to continue to follow guidelines to prevent the spread of the virus, especially given the detection of the Delta variant in several countries. 

One new COVID-19 death was confirmed on Friday along with 109 new cases of the virus.

The two Guyana Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (GYEITI) reports that have been published to date do not paint a complete picture as they do not include revenue statements by the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA), which would require a presidential waiver, National Coordinator Dr Rudy Jadoopat recently disclosed.

The United Nations Development Project (UNDP) has found that inequality remains persistently high in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region while productivity growth is low.

United States Ambassador to Guyana, Sarah-Ann Lynch says that the just concluded Tradewinds 2021 military exercise provide a unique opportunity for participating nations to improve inter-operability and effectively execute missions together.

Declaring that the decade-old case was “acrimonious, long, and tortuous” considering its straightforward background, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) yesterday ruled that Blairmont Rice Investment Incorporated did breach its contract with the Kayman Sankar Group of Companies and this was sufficient grounds for the latter to repudiate a land sales agreement.