Guyana News

Brazil yesterday donated drugs to fight the HIV virus after a request from Guyana which had experienced supply problems.

The Government is accelerating efforts to operationalise the new Department of Fisheries’ marine observation vessel, to effectively patrol Guyana’s Exclusive Economic Zone, and increase the monitoring of fishing.

The Ministry of Health here today announced new requirements for travel to Suriname.

Guyana’s Private Sector Commission (PSC) and the Civil Defence Commission (CDC) are mobilising aid for St Vincent and the Grenadines following yesterday’s multiple eruptions of La Soufrière volcano, which spewed ash and steam miles into the air, triggering the evacuation of thousands more from the danger zone.

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) yesterday denied claims of a recent spate of kidnappings as “misinformation.”

More than 52,000 persons in Guyana have been inoculated with their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine with about 60 already receiving their second dose, according to Health Minister Dr Frank Anthony.

Days after he was arrested for questioning in relation to the execution-style killing of gold dealer Ricardo Fagundes, Rondell Bacchus was yesterday afternoon released from police custody without being charged.

South Korea, through the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), has donated 40,000 high-quality KF94 face masks to the Government of Guyana to help frontline health and child protection workers protect themselves from becoming infected with COVID-19.

The executive and members of the Berbice Bar Association have condemned recent attacks aimed at Justice Sandra Kurtzious.

Opposition Leader Joseph Harmon on Wednesday met United States Ambassador Sarah Ann Lynch and requested that she regularly communicate opposition views to Washington.

The government and opposition have extended condolences to Queen Elizabeth on the passing of Prince Phillip, the Duke of Edinburgh.

After more than a month of delays, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) will meet on Monday, when it is expected to consider and act on a legal opinion secured by Clerk of the National Assembly Sherlock Isaacs on whether government could assume its chairmanship.

Acting Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire SC, has tentatively set May 24 as the date for ruling on a challenge to the promotion of police officers who have disciplinary matters pending against them.

The Guyana Court of Appeal on Thursday heard submissions from counsel for brothers Orwin and Cleon Hinds and Roy Jacobs, who had been convicted in 2015 and sentenced to 81 years in jail each for the murder of 72-year-old Clementine Fiedtkou-Parris.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) yesterday reported that 105 more COVID-19 cases were confirmed, bringing the total number cases in Guyana to 10, 958.

Having recently purchased land on the East Bank and East Coast of Demerara, Trinidad and Tobago headquartered Ramps logistics plans to significantly expand its oil and gas support services here and is hoping that an export free zone will be established in the future to catapult Guyana as a hub for exporting equipment and services, especially to the region.

With the emergence of the oil and gas sector’s need for insurance liability coverage coupled with the need to safeguard, particularly, local insurance service providers, Guyana’s Commissioner of Insurance Dr Gobind Ganga recently set up a committee to make recommendations for him to submit to government’s local content panel on what they expect.

A noise nuisance report has landed a soldier in police custody.

A Mazaruni prisoner, who was serving a sentence for armed robbery, has escaped.

With the Hydromet Department predicting instances of high-intensity rainfall over the next few days, Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha has said it is hoped that two recently acquired drainage pumps that were installed in the city would prevent major flooding.