Guyana News

The World Wildlife Fund-Guianas has called for a full environmental and social impact assessment of oil and gas development here amid growing concerns that business interests are putting this country’s low carbon ambitions at risk and despoiling key habitats such as mangroves.

Attorney Nigel Hughes has filed an application seeking to have Chief Election Officer Keith Lowenfield 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 general and regional elections.

The United States yesterday presented a US$1.5 million grant to the Ministry of Health, which will among other things aim to have more HIV+ positive persons in treatment and their viral levels kept low.

With the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) expected to be administered on August 4 and 5, the Ministry of Education has developed a booster programme to prepare students for the exams.

Acting Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire SC has ruled that the Mayor and City Council’s (M&CC) planned termination of City Engineer Colvern Venture’s employment would be unlawful as the Council has no legal authority to make such a decision.

Former Guyana Lands and Surveys Commissioner Trevor Benn was on Friday faced with a third misconduct in public office charge, which stemmed from the alleged illegal purchase of a portion of land at Mandela Avenue by Cevons Waste management. 

ExxonMobil on Friday announced plans for the safe start-up of the Liza Destiny oil platform’s malfunctioning flash gas compressor system by June following repairs of key components.

Minister of Public Works Juan Edghill has announced plans for 24 connectors along the East Coast highway after government secured approval from China to use the sums saved on the road widening and improvement contract to execute additional roadworks around the project.

High Court judge Navindra Singh has ruled that murder accused Lennox Wayne, called ‘Two Colours,’ will not be granted a stay of the capital indictment currently against him, since his right to a fair hearing has not been breached as he sought to contend.

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of United Nations yesterday afternoon commissioned its new permanent office, which will boost its ability to efficiently offer support to Guyana’s agriculture and food security programmes.

The Ministry of Health on Friday confirmed the deaths of two more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), taking the total number of deaths recorded here from the virus to 335.

Saying 4.4% of the country’s adult population has been fully immunised against COVID-19, Minister of Health Dr.

Massy Stores Guyana on Friday opened a third location, coined “Massy Stores Mini,” at Montrose, East Coast Demerara.

The police are investigating the death of John Lancelot Richards, who was dead in the vicinity of his home.

The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) will be mobilizing in a month’s time to drill a new well on the Essequibo River island of Wakenaam in Region 3 to provide improved water supply to some 4,752 residents.

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

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) yesterday disclosed that the Environmental Permit for the Liza Phase 1 Development Project offshore Guyana has been modified and ExxonMobil’s subsidiary, EEPGL will now be required to pay for gas flaring once it continues beyond a 14-day period.

The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) has come out strongly against the US-funded electoral reform process to be implemented by the International Republican Institute (IRI).

A minibus driver was killed at his Kuru Kururu Sandpit, Soesdyke-Linden Highway home on Tuesday night and three suspects have been held by the police.

Damon Assanah called “Devil” was yesterday afternoon unanimously convicted by a jury on one of three counts of raping a 13-year-old girl whom he was also said to have impregnated back in 2015.