Guyana News

Sports promoter Aubrey ‘Shanghai’ Major is to be charged with allegedly breaching the current restriction on the holding social activities.

A 22-year-old man who was wanted for the murder of retired priest George Chuck-A-Sang was charged and remanded to prison last week.

Keziah Jeuel Roberts, the nursing assistant who was recently charged with obtaining monies from multiple persons through the operation of a Ponzi scheme, has been faced with 15 new fraud charges.

A 111 Miles, Mahdia, Region Eight pensioner has been arrested by police after being found with a quantity of cannabis at his home.

President Irfaan Ali on Wednesday said that the government is currently putting a system in place to facilitate the start of post-Cabinet briefings.

A man was on Friday robbed of $140,000 in valuables in a gunpoint hold-up in Foulis, East Coast Demerara.

A man secured bail yesterday after being charged with smoking ganja at Demico House, Stabroek Square.

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

The Alliance For Change (AFC) today said that it supports the project to bring associated gas from Guyana’s oil well to shore for energy generation but it argued that the PPP/C government’s plan is not sound and requires further detailed studies lest the country is saddled with the largest ever white elephant.

Shonnette Dover, aged 20, a bartender of Canvas City, Wismar, Linden who went missing on the 3rd April 2021 was found dead today.

By Readawne Henery With the Guyana Fire Service (GFS) under scrutiny over whether it could have saved the Sharon’s Mall building, which was gutted on Wednesday evening, Fire Chief Kalamadeen Edoo yesterday said fire-fighters did their best.

With no definite numbers yet on how many of the 50,000 jobs the PPP/C has promised to deliver by 2025 have been created to date, President Irfaan Ali on Wednesday reiterated that government anticipates thousands from the rollout of several projects.

Emphasizing the prevalence of murders/ homicides, Justice Sandil Kissoon yesterday imposed a life sentence on Travis Evans for killing Timehri youth Ronsley Clarke, which the judge described as senseless.

The bid documents for the new bridge over the Demerara River were launched yesterday at 4 pm and nine pre-qualified companies have been invited to tender.

Guyana has surpassed the 130,000 mark for persons receiving their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.

A collaboration between the Guyana and Suriname authorities, has led to the seizure of 902 kilogrammes of cocaine at an airstrip in the Tafelberg plateau of the Central Nature Reserve in Suriname.

The Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri has launched an investigation into the recent spate of the smuggling of finches into the United States.

Two new COVID-19 fatalities were yesterday recorded as Guyana surpassed 13,000 cases.

President Irfaan Ali has denounc-ed Opposition Leader Joseph Harmon’s condemnation of the recent ruling of the acting Chief Justice, who dismissed the main opposition coalition’s elections petition, as evidence of an opposition bent on sowing divisiveness and fear. 

While announcing that schools will remain closed for the month of May, the Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand has appealed to teachers and parents, especially, to get vaccinated.