Guyana News

Tenders were last Tuesday opened at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board for the construction and rehabilitation works to buildings at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport.

Despite challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic, SBM Offshore says that all major projects including the two Floating Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) oil platforms destined for Guyana’s waters are progressing on schedule.

The Government of Guyana says it has noted with growing alarm and concern the escalating violence between Israel and Palestine which has resulted in the senseless loss of lives, the destruction of property, the displacement of persons, and a further setback in the Middle East.

With blindness awareness  month being observed in May, the Guyana Society for the Blind (GSB) says that flooding and security continue to be major problems at its building at St Philip’s Green.

Police are investigating the breaking into and possible arson of an electric car belonging to a Coldingen, East Coast Demerara man on Monday morning.

A security guard who is accused of breaking into his friend’s home and stealing jewellery and cash was put on $10,000 bail.

A fifty-seven-year-old shopkeeper was robbed at knife point of articles valued at more than half a million dollars by gunmen who broke into her home in the wee hours of yesterday.

A taxi driver of Herstelling, East Bank Demerara was on Tuesday night attacked by gunmen who bound him and his wife before proceeding to rob them of cash and valuables.

A twenty-six-year-old man has been arrested for damage to an elderly woman’s property after he went to the victim’s home and verbally abused her and his wife who was staying with the woman at the time of the incident.

One hundred and twenty-eight new COVID-19 cases were recorded yesterday. This was revealed by the Ministry of Health through its COVID-19 dashboard which showed that the new cases increased Guyana’s total positive count to 14,659.

A bartender was on Monday placed on $5,000 bail after denying a damage-to-property charge.

A welder has been charged with trafficking in narcotics and was released on $30,000 bail.

The Central Islamic Organisation of Guyana this evening advised Muslims that the moon crescent for the month of Shawwal has been sighted and therefore Eid ul Fitr, commemorating the end of the Ramadan fasting period, will be celebrated tomorrow, Thursday, May 13th.

The Ministry of Health this evening announced that two programmes at the Charles Rosa Nursing School in Linden have been suspended after it was found that there was an overrepresentation of Region 10 persons to the detriment of applicants from other districts.

Ganesh Singh, a prominent member of the Guyana Society for the Blind says he was robbed by a bandit outside of the organisation’s headquarters on St Philip’s Green. 

With no permission granted for the construction of a concrete manufacturing facility adjacent to South Ruimveldt Gardens, the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) and the Ministry of Housing and Water have served orders to the principals of the development to cease operations.

A meeting between the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) and the International Republican Institute (IRI) to discuss a US-funded electoral reform project was aborted after Opposition-nominated commissioners objected to the manner in which the project was introduced to the Commission.

Two of Guyana’s largest local businesses appear to be at loggerheads over a piece of waterfront land at Providence with one business, Pritipaul Singh Investments being accused of intimidation.

The Customs Anti- Narcotic Unit (CANU) has issued a warrant for the arrest of Omesh Lakeram following the siezure of 207 lbs of suspected marijuana.

Minister of Public Works Juan Edghill yesterday re-opened Hunter Street, West Ruimveldt, Georgetown, a roadway considered to be one of the main arteries into and out of the city.