Guyana News

Canada’s High Commission here is contributing to a programme to assist vulnerable Venezuelan migrant women and girls.

Over 90,000 persons have been fully inoculated against the COVID-19 virus even as Minister of Health, Dr.

The court hearing the trial in the 2017 murder of Cayenne-based clothes vendor Purcell Moore, was told that the accused—Kelvin Persaud and Selwyn Dawson—were seen fleeing the scene after the shooting.

A letter in the June 10th edition of Stabroek News regarding the deplorable condition of Dasrat Street, Triumph Front Lands, has caught the attention of Region Four Chairman, Daniel Seeram, who says that aggregate works will commence on the road this week.

The Ministry of Health has emphatically denied claims that a COVID-19 patient at the Infectious Diseases  Hospital at Liliendaal was not fed for four days.

Georgetown Mayor Ubraj Narine has reiterated the need for businesses operating in the city to pay their fair share of taxes, while saying that the municipality is currently receiving a quarter of what it needs to function.

A murder accused who escaped from the Holding Bay at the Lusignan Prison last April was yesterday sentenced to 18 months in jail.

Sentenced to 60 years back in March after being convicted for the 2016 murder of his brother-in-law, Les Charles Critchlow has lodged an appeal to his conviction and sentence, arguing that he did not have a fair trial.

A Ruby Backdam, East Bank Essequibo man was yesterday charged with unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition.

A man was yesterday sentenced to two years in jail after he was found guilty of possession of a firearm and ammunition without being a licensed firearm holder.

A security guard was fined and bonded to keep the peace on Monday after she admitted to using abusive language toward her son’s girlfriend.

Sixteen-year-old Vishwanauth Doodnauth, who was hit down by a minibus in a hit-and-run just over a week ago at Mon Repos Public Road, has been discharged from the Georgetown Public Hospital and is at home recovering.

The badly decomposed body of an elderly woman was on Sunday found along a trail at Perseverance Backdam, North West District, where vultures were feeding on it. 

Japan has made approximately US$1m available to boost Guyana’s National Flood Early Warning System, the Ministry of Agriculture said yesterday in a release.

The Ministry of Health today said that as of June 14, 2021, seven more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

On June 14, 2021 at 20:15hrs, a report was received that an aircraft was seen circling the Bissaruni trail (12 miles East of Kwakwani) The aircraft subsequently landed and was discovered completely burnt, according to a release today from the Ministry of Home Affairs.

After a lengthy debate this morning, the People’s Progressive Party /Civic (PPP/C) Members of Parliament (MPs) along with the representative of the list joinder Lenox Shuman voted in favour of a motion to remove Opposition Member David Patterson as the Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC).

The National Assembly yesterday approved a $10 billion supplementary allocation to the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) for flood relief including repairs to infrastructure and for supporting recovery in the productive and household sectors.

Three persons died yesterday after the car in which they were travelling crashed into a fence, then a utility pole and turned turtle along the Fort Wellington Public Road, West Berbice.

Upper Pomeroon communities are in dire need of potable water as they continue to battle the effects of severe flooding over the last three weeks.