Guyana News

By Readawne Henery The Ministry of Health yesterday began vaccinating persons sixty years and older with both the Oxford- AstraZeneca Covishield, and Chinese Sinopharm vaccines at the Vreed-en-Hoop Health Centre, West Bank Demerara, the Enmore Polyclinic on the East Coast of Demerara and other centres across the country.

As the global price for crude oil continues to rise steadily, Guyana has received the highest rate since petroleum production began offshore in December of 2019, averaging US$61 per barrel on its latest and fifth lift of one million barrels.

As he had previously hinted, Attorney General (AG) Anil Nandlall SC has filed a more than $400 million lawsuit against S.

Former head of the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB), Jagnarine Singh has been appointed the new acting Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute (NAREI).

The Guyana Police Force today said that the removal of the police chaplain Pastor Patrick Doolichand has been rescinded.

It has been one year since Guyana recorded its first Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) case and while the pain of the sudden death of the country’s ‘Patient Zero’ remains fresh, uncertainty also still looms as to where she might have contracted the virus.

Eighty-one new cases of COVID-19 were yesterday  recorded even as one new fatality was reported.

Former Commissioner and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission (GL&SC), Trevor Benn was arrested by the police yesterday morning for questioning in relation to the sale of several acres of land belonging to the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL).

Guyana is expected to increase its testing for variants of the novel coronavirus through a new partnership with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, USA.

In a majority verdict of 10-2 on manslaughter, a jury yesterday acquitted Mark Louchee of the 2003 killing of Collis De Abreu who police had said he shot outside the Blue Iguana nightclub.

Express International Inc has been managing its parent company’s US trucking service from the West Demerara and 200 jobs have been created here and  more are planned.

Tenders were on Tuesday opened at the National Procurement & Tender Administration Board for the supply and delivery of Water Meter Boxes for the Guyana Water Inc.

Guyana’s mangrove forests which are an important part of coastal sea defence will soon benefit from a multi-institutional agreement that will allow for enhanced monitoring and evaluation as well as much-needed protection.

The National Assembly last Thursday passed unopposed a $25 billion budget for the Ministry of Education which Minister Priya Manickchand has described as “all about responding to COVID-19”.

An Essequibo man is currently on trial before Justice Gino Persaud and a jury at the High Court in Essequibo on charges of raping an 11-year-old girl on two occasions back in 2018.

A construction worker was on Tuesday remanded to prison after he was charged with attempted murder.

A man who previously had to repay persons for defrauding them was again charged with fraud and has been sentenced to two years behind bars.

The police constable involved in the Hibernia, Essequibo Coast accident which killed Symone Williams is still in police custody while the autopsy on the deceased is scheduled to take place on Saturday.

A 50-year-old labourer was yesterday charged for break and enter and larceny committed on Sunday at F.E.

With the recent surge in petroleum prices, Guyana has earned US$61m for its fifth lift of a million barrels of oil – its highest price to date – taking its total earnings inclusive of royalties to US$267.6m.