Guyana News

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

Twenty-five thousand doses of Russia’s Sputnik-5 COVID-19 vaccine arrived today at the CJIA, Timehri, according to the Department of Public Information. 

Darren Harris, 46, a cook of ‘E’ Field Cummings Park, Sophia was stabbed to death last night and his reputed wife is in custody.

Three persons are in custody after a Victoria, East Coast Demerara labourer was chopped to death on Sunday at around 4.30 am on Leopold Street in the city.

An ambulance driver is in custody after an accident yesterday afternoon resulted in the death of businessman, Colin Ming today.

As of last night the public health team has administered 39831 doses of COVID-19 vaccines, according to Dr Leslie Ramsammy, advisor to the Minister of Health.

Charges were yesterday laid against four persons, including PNCR member and attorney James Anthony Bond and former acting Chief Executive Officer of the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL) Colvin Heath-London, who are accused of conspiring to defraud the state through the unsanctioned disposal of land at Peters Hall, East Bank Demerara. 

A Finance Ministry official died after the vehicle he was travelling in with three other ministry employees toppled at Mabura, Region Ten yesterday afternoon.

Describing it as revenge for the murder of his brother Joel Henry, the prime suspect in the killing of West Coast Berbice (WCB) resident Surojdeo Deochand reportedly confessed to relatives that he committed the crime while under the influence of alcohol.

Head of the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB), Nizam Hassan, was yesterday terminated from his job for what sources say was the country’s inability to collect over $1 billion owed for rice shipments sold to Panama.

Four new COVID-19 deaths yesterday pushed Guyana’s death toll to 235 while 126 new cases were confirmed.

Essequibo resident Adriane Sewdeen now awaits sentencing after a jury yesterday afternoon convicted him on charges of raping an 11-year-old girl on two occasions back in 2018.

While City Hall says the lease of a section of the Merriman Mall to Sleepin Hotel and Casino proprietor Clifton Bacchus for the development of a parking lot is being finalised, the businessman yesterday said that he has already made payment for a one-year period and has started preparatory works.

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday filed an urgent application seeking to set aside the default judgment ordering him to pay former government minister Annette Ferguson $20M, owing to his failure to file a defence on time in a libel action she brought against him.

Eleven-year-old Latchman Ramanand on Tuesday drowned while on a fishing trip at the Enmore North seawall, East Coast Demerara.

According to the Secretary of the Sea and River Defence Board (S&RDB), Jermaine Braithwaite, works  commenced yesterday and will continue into this morning to raise the level of the lands where an overtopping at the community of Zeelandia, Wakenaam, Essequibo River known as ‘Ganga’, was brought on by a high tide.

The Guyana Police Force yesterday said that 15-year-old Adyemi Azeez is feared drowned after he went missing yesterday at the Onderneeming beach on the Essequibo coast.

A now-17-year old boy who was accused of raping a 6-year-old when he was 13 years old, was on Wednesday acquitted of the offence.

Thirty-four-year-old Melroy Doris was this afternoon sentenced to five years in prison for the July 10th, 2014 unlawful killing of Lusignan beautician Ashmini Harriram called “Monesha,” who was shot at the Lusignan Railway Embankment, East Coast Demerara.

A consignment of 25,000 doses of Russia’s Sputnik-V   COVID-19 vaccine will be arriving at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri tomorrow, April 02, 2021 at 1:42 PM, according to  a release from the Ministry of Health.