Guyana News

Murder suspect Lenroy Michael Forde alias ‘Biggie’, has confessed to the murder of Odingo Anthony Haywood who was shot dead on Wednes-day last at Drysdale Street, Charlestown, Georgetown.

The man accused of stabbing Devon Xavier to death has been apprehended by the police but has remained silent so far.

Mark Royden Williams is likely to know his fate later today after a jury deliberates on the case presented against him by the prosecution for the 2007 murders of Rajesh Singh and Fazil Hakim.

Principal of Aaron’s Royality Inc (ARI) Jayson Aaron, who was arrested for questioning on allegations of a cybercrime  has been released on $100,000 bail, Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum said yesterday.

Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha yesterday disclosed that his ministry is collaborating with the Guyana Livestock Development Authority (GLDA) to determine how best to assist livestock farmers who suffered losses as a result of the breached river defence at Little Diamond, East Bank Demerara.

Two weeks after the election of a new Management Committee for the Guyana Public Service Cooperative Credit Union (GPSCCU), several members are now saying that there were irregularities in the election process.

A post-mortem examination conducted on Oangkar Kishandyal, who was chopped while attacking another man with a hammer on Sunday, has found his cause of death to be haemorrhage and shock due to an incised wound to one of his forearms.

Two more COVID-19 deaths were recorded yesterday increasing Guyana’s fatalities to 291.

A saleswoman was robbed of $280,000 in cash as well as other valuables in the vicinity of First Bridge, Golden Grove, East Bank Demerara on Monday.

Squatters who were recently relocated from lands that are currently being developed into a new residential housing scheme in Cummings Lodge will soon be regularised, Minister within the Ministry of Housing and Water Susan Rodrigues announced last week.

The Civil Defence Com-mission (CDC) participated yesterday in a Suriname-Guyana Conference aimed at cross-border coordination in oil spill prevention and response.

Dr Ashni Singh, a senior minister in the Office of the President (OP) with responsibility for Finance, on Friday congratulated the Dharm Shala, ‘Home of Benevolence for all Races’ which celebrated its centenary on Wednesday.

A female motorcyclist is now hospitalized at the New Amsterdam Public Hospital in a serious condition, after she was struck by an alleged speeding hire car driver on Monday afternoon.

The Civil Defence Commission (CDC) participated yesterday in a Suriname-Guyana Conference aimed at cross-border coordination in oil spill prevention and response.

Approximately 25% of Guyana’s adult population have received the first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, Health Minister Dr.

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

ExxonMobil said today it made an oil discovery at the Uaru-2 well in the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana, the 19th thus far.

The PPP/C government yesterday said that it used five pre-existing studies done under the APNU+AFC administration to determine that the gas-to-shore project was financially viable and would cut energy costs by at least half.

The opposition APNU+AFC has lost its bid to invalidate the national recount of ballots cast which was undertaken by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) following last year’s contentious General and Regional Elections.

The Ministry of Health yesterday said that five more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.