Guyana News

Thirty arrest warrants were on Friday issued for persons who were due to be formally charged with breaching restrictions on social activities. 

A search is underway for a Crabwood Creek, Upper Corentyne fisherman who went missing in the Corentyne River on Thursday evening.

Sentenced last month to 47 years in prison for raping an eight-year-girl back in 2015 and then repeating the crime two years later, Ivor Laud has lodged an appeal with the Guyana Court of Appeal on the claim that his sentence is too harsh. 

Found guilty last month and sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a fisherman, whose body he buried in the Number 68 Village, Corentyne backlands, Munilall Sarjoo has appealed his conviction.

Venezuelan currency and contraband have been seized by the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) as part of its operations to locate marijuana camps along the Mahaicony River area.

A West La Penitence, Georgetown man was on Friday charged with raping a minor under the age of 16.

Frontera Energy Corporation and CGX Energy Inc., joint venture partners in Petroleum Prospecting Licenses for the Corentyne and Demerara blocks offshore Guyana, on Friday announced that they have entered into a term sheet for a US$19 million loan that will enable CGX to continue to finance its share of costs related to the oil blocks, the Berbice Deepwater Port, and other budgeted costs as agreed to by Frontera.

Minister of Agriculture Zulfikar Mustapha on Friday assured flooded farmers that emergency works to repair the dams and clear clogged channels in the Mahaicony area would begin over the weekend.

Eight companies have submitted bids for the rehabilitation of the Soesdyke/Linden Highway.

Mayor Ubraj Narine has denied a suggestion that the City Council is considering disposing of its Water Street property that houses the City Constabulary Training Complex.

The Guyana Police Force Marine Department’s Marine Vessel (MV) Baramani has been restored to full operation.

The police are yet to apprehend a second suspect wanted in connection with the murder of Roy Ross, who was found dead on Easter Monday.

Prime Minister Mark Phillips through his office will be collaborating with Junior Chambers International (JCI) Guyana in a campaign to encourage the public to adhere to the COVID-19 guidelines and to get vaccinated against the virus, the Department of Public Information (DPI) has reported.

Guyana has recorded four more COVID-19 deaths, the Health Ministry reported this afternoon.

Despite there being a shortage of COVID-19 vaccines to immunise the entire adult population in Guyana,  increased calls by the public have led to the Government’s decision to extend the National COVID-19 Vaccination Programme to all eligible adults, according to Health Minister Dr.

The Ministry of Health has condemned what it says was “patent misinformation” being peddled in relation to the COVID-19 vaccines and the death this week of Region Ten RDC Councillor, Serjonie ‘Gem’ Narine.

The Management of the Guyana/Suriname Ferry Service today announced that the Government of Suriname has instituted a full lockdown for the coming weekend from 6 pm Friday 16th April to 5am Monday 19th April.

Local investors are to undertake an agricultural project intended to eliminate the dependence of the poultry sector on imported feed supplies. 

In a major development in the battle against the Coronavirus, Advisor to the Minister of Health, Dr Leslie Ramsammy yesterday announced that the country’s COVID-19 vaccination programme will be extended from today to persons 18 years and older and he assured that there is no shortage of shots to provide second doses.

The wife of Wazim Ray Ramjattan, who died of COVID-19 and was mistakenly buried by the family of another fatality of the virus, is upset after the body was purportedly identified by a relative.