Guyana News

Joel Skeete, 19 years old, has been missing since the evening of Wednesday, March 31.

If as Shaheed Roger Khan claims he was the real target of the gunning down outside of the Palm Court bar which claimed the life of family member, Ricardo Fagundes, the questions would be who wants to kill him and has the wherewithal to mount an operation of the type seen on March 21?

Scrap metal trading in Guyana will resume on April 8 with reinforced surveillance as government continues to assess the operations of the sector.

The Medical Council of Guyana (MCG) is seeking an overhaul of the sector’s legislation and regulations which it views as currently being defective and toothless.

Joshua Samaroo, whose mother was one of three persons who drowned near the Number 63 Beach in February, is yet to receive her remains so that he can perform her final rites and begin his path to closure as DNA testing to verify her identity has still not been concluded.

A man was on Wednesday fined after he told the court that he was working when the police arrested him for allegedly breaching the curfew.

A man was placed on $350,000 bail after being charged with forging a court order and conspiring to obtain millions of dollars from a woman.

Under increasing scrutiny over concerns that it continues to benefit from a hugely lopsided 2016 Production Sharing Agreement (PSA), ExxonMobil on Thursday warned that “unrealistic” local content targets can have deleterious impacts.

A man has been placed on $250,000 bail after being charged with causing death by dangerous driving.

The Ministry of Health today said that two more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

Twenty-five thousand doses of Russia’s Sputnik-5 COVID-19 vaccine arrived today at the CJIA, Timehri, according to the Department of Public Information. 

Darren Harris, 46, a cook of ‘E’ Field Cummings Park, Sophia was stabbed to death last night and his reputed wife is in custody.

Three persons are in custody after a Victoria, East Coast Demerara labourer was chopped to death on Sunday at around 4.30 am on Leopold Street in the city.

An ambulance driver is in custody after an accident yesterday afternoon resulted in the death of businessman, Colin Ming today.

As of last night the public health team has administered 39831 doses of COVID-19 vaccines, according to Dr Leslie Ramsammy, advisor to the Minister of Health.

Charges were yesterday laid against four persons, including PNCR member and attorney James Anthony Bond and former acting Chief Executive Officer of the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL) Colvin Heath-London, who are accused of conspiring to defraud the state through the unsanctioned disposal of land at Peters Hall, East Bank Demerara. 

A Finance Ministry official died after the vehicle he was travelling in with three other ministry employees toppled at Mabura, Region Ten yesterday afternoon.

Describing it as revenge for the murder of his brother Joel Henry, the prime suspect in the killing of West Coast Berbice (WCB) resident Surojdeo Deochand reportedly confessed to relatives that he committed the crime while under the influence of alcohol.

Head of the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB), Nizam Hassan, was yesterday terminated from his job for what sources say was the country’s inability to collect over $1 billion owed for rice shipments sold to Panama.

Four new COVID-19 deaths yesterday pushed Guyana’s death toll to 235 while 126 new cases were confirmed.