Guyana News

The homes of just over a hundred residents from Silvertown and Silver City, Linden have been flooded after torrential rainfall compounded by high tides yesterday morning, Regional Chairman Deron Adams told Stabroek News.

The Ministry of Agriculture yesterday hosted its inaugural Independence Seed and Seedling Distribution Drive in observance of Guyana’s 55th Independence Anniversary.

President Irfaan Ali has lashed out against the claim made by Georgetown Mayor, Ubraj Narine that he is starving the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) of resources.

A youth is now in custody after robbing a GR taxi service driver at First Street, Agricola, East Bank Demerara, on Monday night.

ExxonMobil will from today begin paying for the flaring of its estimated 15 million cubic feet (MMcf) per day of associated gases as it has applied for 36 days of flaring and the total accrued for the period under the revised Environmental Permit would be around US$1.3 million, says Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo.

As Guyana celebrates 55 years as an independent nation, the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) has sponsored the décor for the Ministry of Health’s Disability and Rehabilitation Service Centre at its Croal Street, Georgetown location.

Robbers left two businessmen and a security guard tied up after an early morning attack on Monday at a Friendship, East Bank Demerara supermarket.

A security guard was robbed by two men at the junction of Cooper Street and Punt Trench Dam, in Albouystown, Georgetown on Monday.

Seon Christie is wanted by the police in connection with the attempted murder of Shanaz Mohamed on 2021/05/02.

Health Minister Dr. Frank Anthony on Friday said that he hopes that companies will continue “encouraging” their staff to get vaccinated as it will help Guyana exit the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Vaccinations countrywide are increasing steadily according to Minister of Health, Dr Frank Anthony as he noted that 12 per cent of Guyana’s adult population is now fully inoculated.

The Ministry of Health this afternoon confirmed the deaths of seven more persons due to COVID-19, including a 17-year-old.

Sherwin Crandon, the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) prosecutor who was held in a recent sting after allegedly collecting a $300,000 bribe to dismiss a court case, was charged today.

Three persons: Antonia Henry, 87, her daughter Melina Emmanuel, 40, and her granddaughter, Akese Jerome, 8, were killed on Sunday night after a speeding driver lost control of his car and plowed into them and others sitting on the curbside of a road at Kairuni, Soesdyke-Linden Highway.

On Thursday—May 27th—acting Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire SC will rule on whether Chief Election Officer (CEO) Keith Lowenfield will be added as a party to the proceedings in which the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and the Commissioner of Police have requested the Statements of Poll (SoPs) and Statements of Recount (SoRs) from the March 2nd, 2020 elections for use in criminal cases against the CEO and others.

Guyana yesterday received five ultra-cold storage freezers from the United States Embassy to increase the country’s capacity to store COVID-19 vaccines.

Ex-soldier Jermaine Jefford now awaits sentencing after a jury convicted him yesterday afternoon for the 2016 murder of Laing Avenue taxi driver Orin David.

While floodwater is receding from some Rupununi communities, Region Nine Chairman Bryan Allicock yesterday reported that water levels in at least two North Rupununi villages are rising.

Richard Austin Shamlin and Ian Charles Jones, the Directors of Superior Concrete who had verbally abused Minister of Housing and Water Collin Croal and his team when they carried out a surprise visit to their operation site, will not be allowed back in Guyana to conduct business, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo has announced.

Guyana’s COVID-19 deaths yesterday increased to 361 as two more persons who tested positive succumbed.