Guyana News

A youth is now in critical condition at the George-town Public Hospital, after he was shot in his leg by a security guard on duty at the Tan Yuan Meng Supermarket, at Diamond, East Bank Demerara.

Pritipaul Singh Investment (PSI) has encountered another snag in its quest to claim prime waterfront Providence lands from Demerara Contractors and Engineers Limited (DCEL) and Sterling Products Limited (SPL).

Two new COVID-19 deaths were yesterday recorded as the country’s total cases surpassed 18,000.

A barber was on Tuesday evening chopped on his head and right arm at Black Water Backdam, Cuyuni River.

Calvin Allen, the coach of the Guyana Police Force’s football club, was arrested yesterday after he was found with a firearm and several live rounds in his possession.

Tenders were on June 1st opened at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board for the rehabilitation of a number of roads and streets under the Ministry of Public Works.

The taxi driver involved in the accident that claimed the life of bus driver Mark Ault on Sunday night at Dora Public Road, Linden-Soesdyke Highway, was on Wednesday charged with causing death by dangerous driving and released on $620,000 bail.

The Institute of Private Enterprise Development (IPED) on Wednesday unveiled a bust of Dr.

Sudden heavy winds in the county of Berbice yesterday morning completely destroyed the roof of a house in Blairmont while neighbouring residents lost several zinc sheets from their roofs.

Nigel Hughes, the lawyer for Chief Election Officer Keith Lowenfield, his deputy Roxanne Myers and District Four Returning Officer Clairmont Mingo says they were given very late notice by the police to attend court on Wednesday for the hearing of new elections charges against them.

The Ministry of Health today said that as June 09, 2021, two more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

Dennis Veerasammy and Basheer Harrinauth, two of the three men recently found guilty of the 2015 murder of a labourer, have each been handed a life sentence for the crime.

The Private Sector Commission (PSC)  today urged citizens to  take the COVID-19 vaccine to ensure the health and safety of all.

Amid continuing rain in all regions, President Irfaan Ali yesterday announced in Region Six that the Civil Defence Commission (CDC) has advised that the countrywide flooding is now a Level 2 Disaster and supplementary funding is to be sought at Parliament today.

Underscoring the premeditated and gruesome manner in which taxi driver Orin David was killed execution-style  in broad daylight in the presence of his family and neighbours, Justice Sandil Kissoon yesterday handed ex-soldier Jermaine Jefford a life sentence for the crime.

Lamenting the devastation wrought by flooding across the country, Minister with responsibility for Finance, Dr.

A taxi driver was yesterday remanded after being charged with the murder of Ronald Omar Smith on Camp Street in George-town, in the course of a robbery.

Over one hundred persons from a broad swathe of society have sent a detailed  submission to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with a number of questions they want answered in the impact assessment to be done for ExxonMobil’s fourth proposed oil well here – Yellowtail.

Investigators are probing a fire of unknown origin, which gutted two Bagot-ville, West Bank Demerara (WBD) buildings, including a supermarket early yesterday morning.

Another COVID-19 death was recorded yesterday pushing up the fatality toll to 417.