Guyana News

With the majority of farms in the Deep South Rupununi inundated due to the early seasonal rain, food security over the next three months is under threat, Michael Thomas, Vice Chairman of the South Rupununi District Council says.

Students of the University of Guyana’s (UG) Faculty of Engineering and Technology are now able to gain practical experience in the development of drilling fluid (MUD) for the Oil and Gas Sector following the launch of a MUD lab at the Turkeyen Campus.

Forty-two-year-old former office assistant Derrick Mohabir was on Friday acquitted of charges of raping and robbing a female police officer.

The Denmark-headquartered Blue Water Shipping (BWS) has opened an office in Guyana and is looking to provide a number of services for the energy sector including import and export, freight forwarding, and personnel logistics.

Four persons from Better Hope, East Coast Demerara were on Saturday night robbed at gunpoint by a male of cash and other valuables.

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

A Plaisance man is currently a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital nursing gunshot wounds to the left side of his torso and his right leg following an altercation over money on Saturday afternoon.

A forty-one-year-old West Canje, Berbice hire car driver yesterday morning woke up to discover his car was missing.

Two Berbice residents were injured after the motorcycle they were on collided with a car driven by a twenty-seven-year-old intoxicated driver on Saturday night.

A motorcyclist was on Saturday night beaten with a cutlass by identifiable bandits on a BMX bicycle at Turkeyen, East Coast Demerara before they robbed him of his ten pennyweight gold chain valued at $50,000.

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

Two men died in a crash on the Timehri Public Road last night at around 8.30.

Prime Minister Mark Phillips yesterday said that the Government will continue to distribute relief items to flood-affected residents of Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo (Region Nine).

Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Hugh Todd today led an official delegation to Suriname to further discuss advancing areas of cooperation through the Strategic Dialogue and Cooperation Platform (SCDP).

With nearly US$345 million in a United States account from oil proceeds and no legislation for a Natural Resource Fund or its spending nearly 18 months after oil production began, the World Bank says Guyana’s fund needs early operationalising.

President Irfaan Ali yesterday announced that while his government is committed to the transparent spending of Guyana’s oil revenue, it cannot at this stage commit to implementing the internationally praised Norway model for a Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF).

Police on Friday arrested a second suspect in the murder of Anthony Cort, the 10-year-old who was fatally shot during a robbery in Sophia more than two months ago and he has purportedly admitted to this involvement in the crime and implicated his teenage accomplice as the person who fired the fatal shot.

A father of five was on Saturday crushed by a truck he was driving after he fell out of the vehicle when it toppled down a hill at 26 Miles Port Kaituma, in Region One.

A 40-year-old labourer is now dead after he was reportedly struck down along the Kuru Kuru Public Road, Soesdyke-Linden Highway in a hit-and-run accident and his family is pleading with the driver responsible to surrender.

Guyana’s death toll from the novel coronavirus has increased to 355 following the confirmation of four more fatalities, which occurred on Thursday and Friday.