Guyana News

Guyana is expected to receive a donation of 80,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine for COVID-19 from the Government of India net week.

The services of former Director General of Maritime Administration (MARAD) and recently appointed Advisor on Maritime Affairs Claudette Rogers have been terminated by the Ministry of Public Works, Minister Juan Edghill last told the National Assembly.

The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) has requested the removal of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Linden Hospital Complex after he was reported as saying that the nurses regularly abandoned their duties to engage in extramarital affairs. 

Police were up to last night searching for four prisoners, including two Venezuelan nationals, who escaped from the Lethem Police Station through lockup through a hole they dug in the ground.

High Court Judge Nareshwar Harnanan on Monday ruled against the Georgetown Mayor and City Councilors’ (M&CC) application of a 400% rate increase and demand for Plantation Houston Sugar Estates Company Limited to pay in excess of $500 million in rates and taxes on lands it owns at Houston/Rome.

A sum of $100 million has been allocated for the restoration of the City Hall building, Minister of Local Government and Regional Development Nigel Dharamlall announced on Thursday.

Opposition Leader Joseph Harmon and a team yesterday held an “overdue” meeting with the Guyana Police Force (GPF) top brass for discussion on a number of matters, including the “selective enforcement” of COVID-19 measures and “sloth” in the investigation of the murders of West Coast Berbice (WCB) cousins Joel and Isaiah Henry, and Haresh Singh.

Deputy Speaker and opposition member Lenox Shuman on Friday evening endorsed the proposed 2021 national budget even as he sounded the call for the opposition to operate with integrity and hold the government accountable.

Minister of Housing and Water Colin Croal yesterday told the National Assembly that the APNU+AFC administration’s largest housing project failed to accomplish the objective of facilitating home ownership because the former government failed to amend the relevant laws.

Minister of Home Affairs Robeson Benn last evening told the National Assembly that a sum of $300 million is missing from the Guyana Police Force’s Finance Department.

A post-mortem examination conducted on the remains of Sandra Dee Barker, the ACME General Store Manager who was found dead in her office on Wednesday, has determined that her death was caused by high blood pressure, which led to brain haemorrhaging.

Shelly Modeste, the five year-old Essequibo girl who was found dead in her bed in the wee hours of Thursday morning, died as a result of an infection in the abdomen.

Monica Thomas and Brennan Nurse, the petitioners in whose names the main opposition APNU+AFC sought to challenge the results of the March 2nd, 2020 polls, have moved to appeal the decision by the Chief Justice to throw out the case.

Although it is yet to lay a charge against anyone, the Guyana Police Force (GPF) yesterday signaled that it is hopeful of securing a conviction.

Rockey Harper, the D’ Edward Village, West Bank Berbice fisherman who allegedly slashed his cousin’s throat on Sunday during a family row, was charged with murder and remanded to prison yesterday.

Marco Seudatt, the man accused of murdering the pensioner whose body was found burnt near Huaxin Supermarket at Enmore, East Coast Demerara, was yesterday charged for the crime.

A former Region Six Sports Officer was yesterday jailed for three months after he admitted to threatening his wife while armed with knives last December.

A labourer was on Wednesday sentenced to eight months in jail after he admitted to climbing through the roof of a convenience store and stealing credit and cash.

The US Embassy and the US State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics & Law Enforcement, through the Justice Education Society (JES), have donated a number of items valued at GY$798,000 to the Guyana Police Force (GPF) and the judiciary.

Thirteen (13) members of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) were accused of committing criminal offences during the last quarter of last year.