Guyana News

President Irfaan Ali on Wednesday said that the government is currently putting a system in place to facilitate the start of post-Cabinet briefings.

A man was on Friday robbed of $140,000 in valuables in a gunpoint hold-up in Foulis, East Coast Demerara.

A man secured bail yesterday after being charged with smoking ganja at Demico House, Stabroek Square.

The Ministry of Health says that another person who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has died.

The Alliance For Change (AFC) today said that it supports the project to bring associated gas from Guyana’s oil well to shore for energy generation but it argued that the PPP/C government’s plan is not sound and requires further detailed studies lest the country is saddled with the largest ever white elephant.

Shonnette Dover, aged 20, a bartender of Canvas City, Wismar, Linden who went missing on the 3rd April 2021 was found dead today.

By Readawne Henery With the Guyana Fire Service (GFS) under scrutiny over whether it could have saved the Sharon’s Mall building, which was gutted on Wednesday evening, Fire Chief Kalamadeen Edoo yesterday said fire-fighters did their best.

With no definite numbers yet on how many of the 50,000 jobs the PPP/C has promised to deliver by 2025 have been created to date, President Irfaan Ali on Wednesday reiterated that government anticipates thousands from the rollout of several projects.

Emphasizing the prevalence of murders/ homicides, Justice Sandil Kissoon yesterday imposed a life sentence on Travis Evans for killing Timehri youth Ronsley Clarke, which the judge described as senseless.

The bid documents for the new bridge over the Demerara River were launched yesterday at 4 pm and nine pre-qualified companies have been invited to tender.

Guyana has surpassed the 130,000 mark for persons receiving their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.

A collaboration between the Guyana and Suriname authorities, has led to the seizure of 902 kilogrammes of cocaine at an airstrip in the Tafelberg plateau of the Central Nature Reserve in Suriname.

The Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri has launched an investigation into the recent spate of the smuggling of finches into the United States.

Two new COVID-19 fatalities were yesterday recorded as Guyana surpassed 13,000 cases.

President Irfaan Ali has denounc-ed Opposition Leader Joseph Harmon’s condemnation of the recent ruling of the acting Chief Justice, who dismissed the main opposition coalition’s elections petition, as evidence of an opposition bent on sowing divisiveness and fear. 

While announcing that schools will remain closed for the month of May, the Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand has appealed to teachers and parents, especially, to get vaccinated.

Social media talk show host Gavin Matthews was arrested yesterday and later released on $100,000 station bail following an allegation that he used his show to make derogatory remarks about Minister of Cul-ture, Youth and Sport Charles Ramson Jr.

A vagrant died yesterday after being hit by a truck while begging at the intersection of Avenue of the Republic and Regent Street. 

A man who was found guilty of committing bigamy was yesterday fined for the offence.

United States Ambassador to Guyana, Sarah-Ann Lynch on Wednesday stressed the importance of Guyanese fisherfolk being able to profit from their hard work.