Guyana News

Director of Prisons, Gladwin Samuels has been notified that he will not be returning to that position following the end of his leave.

With the Audit Office preparing to investigate suspected procurement abuses at the state-owned Guyoil, resigned General Manager Trevor Bassoo on Friday distanced himself from a new claim that he had been negotiating with firm Aaron’s Royality Inc.

The Ministry of Education yesterday announced that two Queen’s College students are the top performers at the 2020 Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) and Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) assessments.

Minister of Health Dr Frank Anthony on Friday reported that more than 115,000 persons have received their first shot of a COVID-19 vaccine in Guyana, even as a high of 214 new infections were confirmed.

Former government minister Annette Ferguson has filed a $50 million lawsuit against Minister of Labour Joseph Hamilton, whom she alleges made libelous statements about her during a televised programme.

Collis Whyte, the Route 48 minibus driver who was seen in a viral video chasing a traffic rank with a cutlass, will be spending the next 12 months behind bars after admitting to multiple charges, including resisting arrest and threatening behaviour.

The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) and the state-run Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) on Friday reached an agreement that will now see sugar workers receiving a “one-off payment” of monies to settle wage increases owed from 2019.

The Guyana Water Inc (GWI) on Friday recommissioned the Moblissa water supply system on the Soesdyke-Linden Highway, bringing potable water into the homes of close to a hundred persons.

As the country’s economy continues to grow from the oil and gas business, President Irfaan Ali yesterday implored the private sector to join with government and focus especially on diversification into agro-processing and aquaculture to avoid the Dutch Disease.

Fourteen of ExxonMobil Guyana’s offshore workers have tested positive for COVID-19.

Members of the main opposition coalition APNU+AFC met with a team from ExxonMobil on Thursday to discuss issues relating to the malfunctioning third stage gas compressor.

Two men, who the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) has accused of trying to traffic cocaine, were on Friday each asked to post $300,000 bail for their release after they denied a joint narcotics charge.

Multiple rape accused Thurston Semple has been once again been committed to stand trial at the High Court for the offence.

The police have arrested a suspect in the robbery of an employee of Health International Inc, who was relieved of over $1 million after he was violently dragged out of his moving vehicle on Lyng and Princess streets, Charlestown.

Andrew Jagmohan, the truck driver who was killed in a freak accident after being pinned to his steering wheel by one of the logs he had been transporting , died of multiple injuries, an autopsy has concluded.

The Commissioner of the Police (Ag) Nigel Hoppie and other senior officers on Thursday visited the family of the late Senior Superintendent Charmaine Stuart to give their condolences.

In a deepening scandal over fuel procurement at GUYOIL, its former General Manager Trevor Bassoo this evening denied again that his departure was in any way connected to the current controversy  over a shipment allegedly imported by Aaron Royalty Inc.

The Ministry of Health today reported a whopping 214 new cases of COVID-19.

Dr Leslie Ramsammy, Advisor to the Minister of Health today said that over 115,000 persons had been inoculated against the Coronavirus and he slammed what he called a “whisper campaign” against the vaccines.

The Ministry of Education has announced that two Queen’s College students are the top performers at the 2020 Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) and Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) assessments.