Guyana News

An early morning fire today gutted three properties at La Grange, West Bank Demerara.

-Hamilton slams APNU+AFC over health and safety Debate on the 2021 budget started yesterday with APNU+AFC MP Amanza Walton-Desir questioning whether government’s Public Sector Investment Programme can be delivered and Minister of Labour Joseph Hamilton flaying the previous administration’s record on worker safety in a session that also saw numerous insults and the brandishing of a sex toy.

With close to 1,900 frontline workers already receiving their first dose of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, Health Minister Dr Frank Anthony yesterday revealed that authorities will exhaust the first batch of vaccines that were recently received to cover as many persons as they can instead of administering the second doses from the same supply.

A D’ Edward Village, West Bank Berbice fisherman yesterday morning turned himself over to police, almost half a day after he slashed his cousin’s throat during an altercation with a group of relatives. 

Hours after he was arrested by the police in connection with the murder of labourer, Colin Anthony King, whose body was found in a septic tank behind his Belle West, West Bank Demerara (WBD) home on Saturday, the suspect has admitted to the crime.

Colin Whyte, the policeman who has been accused of shooting the mother of his two children in her neck after she broke up with him, was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with attempted murder. 

In accordance with Part III Section 16 of the Defence Act 15:01 of 1977, Chief of Staff (ag) of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Brigadier Godfrey Bess yesterday announced that President and Commander-in-Chief Irfaan Ali has approved the promotion of forty-eight officers with effect from January 01, 2021.

Ralph Jones, the father of one of the prisoners who escaped from the Mazaruni Prison a week ago was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with providing assistance to them, including a change of clothing after the incident.

The Committee of Appointments of Parliament has nominated Justice (r’td) Beasraj Singh Roy to sit as a member of the Judicial Service Commission (JSC).

The Ministry of Education is notifying schools/students/parents that it is in receipt of a memorandum from the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) which states that as it relates to the spread of COVID-19 in Barbados, the Council has suspended the printing of the July/August 2020 candidate certificates until restrictions are lifted in the country.

The burnt body of an unidentified man was found yesterday near the Huaxin Supermarket at Enmore, East Coast Demerara.

Initial findings from the probe into the death of  Police Constable Rockliff Cozier indicate that the drugs administered to him prior were not a contributing factor, Health Minister Dr Frank Anthony said yesterday.

APNU+AFC MP Christopher Jones yesterday took the government to task over its proposed 2021 national budget, saying that it has failed to address the challenges and economic hardships that have been imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic on many Guyanese.

Guyana yesterday recorded its 190th COVID-19 fatality even as seven new cases of the virus were recorded.

Sherwin Rhodius, the man who was injured in the accident along the Dora Public Road, Soesdyke-Linden Highway on Saturday, remains hospitalised in a serious but stable condition.

A woman accused of defrauding persons by pretending that she could assist in the construction of low-income homes was on Friday released on $180,000 bail after denying the charges laid against her.

Canada has pledged C$81.41M for the replenishment of the Caribbean Development Bank’s Special Development Fund and committed a further C$9M to the World Food Programme to support logistics and tackle food insecurity within the Caribbean.

The 23-year-old woman who was arrested on Saturday at the Eugene F Correia International Airport for possession of narcotics, which she allegedly swallowed and stuffed in her vagina has since discharged twenty-five more pellets.

The Juvenile Holding Centre recently received ten new bunk beds, procured by the Ministry of Home Affairs in collaboration with UNICEF Guyana.

The University of Guyana, when it commences graduation convocations in March, 2021 will be embarking on a number of firsts for that tertiary institution.