Guyana News

A decomposed body that was found recently floating in a creek at Kariko Village, North West District, Region One, has been identified as a 97-year-old woman.

The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) has said a request to government to commence negotiations for public servants’ wages, salaries, and allowances, has been ignored, thereby setting up a potential confrontation between the PPP/C administration and workers.

Health authorities in Aishalton and Parabara, in the South Rupununi, are monitoring an increase in malaria cases that have been imported into the communities from workers mining in the Marudi Mountain area.

Region Nine communities will now be able to access the Guyana Learning Channel (GLC) thanks to a Ministry of Education (MoE) initiative.

Continuous moderate to heavy rain showers and thunderstorms are expected across Guyana from today until Tuesday, the Hydrometeorological Service has advised.

A University of Guyana student has been reported missing after not returning home from a visit to a barber at Bagotstown last Wednesday.

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

                                                                                                                                     The Guyana Police Force says it is investigating a serious accident which occurred yesterday at about 7 am on Main Street, New Amsterdam, Berbice in which a female cop was injured.

Ninety-four new cases of COVID-19 were reported today by the Ministry of Health and 13 persons are in the ICU.

Two Guyanese are among a group of men, accused of importing over Bds $102,500 worth of cocaine into Barbados as well as possessing a firearm and ammunition, has been remanded to prison.

The Civil Defence Commission (CDC) has handed over a quantity of oil spill equipment to the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Coast Guard.

Joel Skeete, 19 years old, has been missing since the evening of Wednesday, March 31.

If as Shaheed Roger Khan claims he was the real target of the gunning down outside of the Palm Court bar which claimed the life of family member, Ricardo Fagundes, the questions would be who wants to kill him and has the wherewithal to mount an operation of the type seen on March 21?

Scrap metal trading in Guyana will resume on April 8 with reinforced surveillance as government continues to assess the operations of the sector.

The Medical Council of Guyana (MCG) is seeking an overhaul of the sector’s legislation and regulations which it views as currently being defective and toothless.

Joshua Samaroo, whose mother was one of three persons who drowned near the Number 63 Beach in February, is yet to receive her remains so that he can perform her final rites and begin his path to closure as DNA testing to verify her identity has still not been concluded.

A man was on Wednesday fined after he told the court that he was working when the police arrested him for allegedly breaching the curfew.

A man was placed on $350,000 bail after being charged with forging a court order and conspiring to obtain millions of dollars from a woman.

Under increasing scrutiny over concerns that it continues to benefit from a hugely lopsided 2016 Production Sharing Agreement (PSA), ExxonMobil on Thursday warned that “unrealistic” local content targets can have deleterious impacts.

A man has been placed on $250,000 bail after being charged with causing death by dangerous driving.