Guyana News

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.

While urging citizens to get vaccinated against COVID-19, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Friday said government is not considering a lockdown to address the continued rise in cases as he contended that there is no empirical evidence that they work.  

Opposition Leader Joseph Harmon on Friday encouraged all Guyanese to take every precaution against contracting COVID19, including taking the available vaccines.

“Kaimana’o kasarai wuru’u pidan dakatakinaowaz, ukaminka’uta pugaru na’iki ukazannaatan nii pugaru rinai  koroonaa  vairos ai.”

As United Kingdom-based company Valiant Business Media (VBM) prepares to host the third Guyana Petroleum Exhibition (GIPEX) summit virtually next month, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Friday announced that government would not be participating, citing concerns about inadequate local content initiatives and accusing the organisers of ties to the opposition.

The Giftland Group of companies on Saturday apologized to its customers for selling items branded with the prejudicial phrase “All Lives Matter.”

A pedal cyclist is now suffering from broken ribs and a punctured lung after he was involved in an accident along the Foulis Railway Embankment, on the East Coast of Demerara (ECD).