Guyana News

Emergency repairs to rectify defects at spans 9 &10 and other damage to the Demerara Harbour Bridge are scheduled to commence soon, Minister of Public Works Juan Edghill said yesterday.

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) is currently investigating the murder of a man on Saturday morning at Perseverance Backdam, North West District.

With the number of COVID-19 cases continuing to increase in Guyana,  Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited and the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) have reduced their operating period by one hour.

Businesses will once again be able to import products from Florida in the United States using a Certificate of Free Sale issued by the Enterprise Florida Institute as long as the goods being imported are not subject to an existing distributorship agreement.

The Indian Action Committee (IAC) says it has lodged a complaint with the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) over “derogatory” remarks made by APNU+AFC MP Amanza Walton-Desir.

Sustainable Environment Solutions (SES) Incorporated was launched in Guyana on Tuesday and has won a contract to manage ExxonMobil’s hazardous and non-hazardous waste.

Twenty-eight residents of Region Six are expected to appear in various magistrate’s courts this week to face charges of breaching COVID-19 restrictions.

Kevin La Fleur, who escaped from the Mazaruni Prison on April 10 was on Saturday evening recaptured in Ankerville, Port Mourant, Corentyne.

A Corentyne man is now hospitalised and his wife was injured after they were attacked and robbed by two armed bandits after midnight yesterday at their home in Number 69 Village, Corentyne.

The government’s scholarship programme, Guyana Online Academy of Learning (GOAL) was on Saturday introduced in Region Three.

The Ministry of Health today said that another person who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has died.

Jomal Adams, 29, was stabbed to death yesterday with a pair of scissors after an argument over a cell phone.

A D’Urban Street mother of four is now dead after being stabbed a reported 14 times last evening by her common-law husband, who later attempted to end his own life.

As Guyana observed Labour Day, hundreds of cane cutters on Saturday morning went on strike to demand that COVID-19 safety measures be strictly enforced at the Albion Estate in Berbice, following news that at least one of them had tested positive for the virus. 

Two more COVID-19 deaths were recorded on Friday, pushing the country’s death toll closer to 300, even as 121 new cases were recorded.

The Ministry of Public Works (MoPW) yesterday commissioned over $400 million in new screening equipment that is expected to help to stymie criminal activity and improve customer relations at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA).

Although backing a gas-to-shore project here, main opposition coalition partner the Alliance for Change (AFC) on Friday warned that the current plan being pursued by the PPP/C government at Wales is not supported by the research done so far.

As the search continued for the suspect in the murder of Shonnette Dover, recordings of him seeking assistance to leave the country were on Saturday leaked.

Noting the rising COVID-19 infections and deaths in Guyana, Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) President Patrick Yarde has put the blame on government’s “naïve” approach to managing the spread of the virus.

The Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Guyana (FITUG) and its affiliates – the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU), the Guyana Labour Union (GLU), the National Association of Agricultural, Commercial and Industrial Employees (NAACIE), and the Clerical and Commercial Workers Union (CCWU) – has renewed its call for the national minimum wage to be increased to $60,000 monthly as has been agreed.