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President Irfaan Ali yesterday visited Yakusari, Black Bush Polder, Corentyne where he provided on-the-spot answers to issues raised by residents in connection with drainage, water, roads, electricity, security and streetlights.
The Mayor and City Council is currently investigating the dumping of pharmaceutical supplies on the parapet of a building located at the corner of Forshaw and Oronoque streets, in Queenstown, Georgetown.
Ministers from the United Kingdom and the Caribbean have pledged co-operation on COVID-19 and a raft of other areas.
A man was on Monday arrested after he was found with 711 grammes of suspected cannabis at Good Success, Wakenaam Island, Essequibo River.
Two newcomers stole the show and took the top honours when the Soca and Chutney Monarch competitions concluded last Saturday.
A Superbet proprietor was on Tuesday robbed of over $2 million and other valuables by two identifiable suspects at his West Bank Demerara residence.
Former government minister Annette Ferguson today defended a High Court order awarding her damages against Vice-President Bharrat Jagdeo because of his failure to file a defence in a libel case.
As part of the Ministry of Education’s efforts to prepare Grade Six students to write the 2021 National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA), Minister of Education Priya Manickchand had announced that study packages will be sent to every child in the public sector.
The Ministry of Human Services and Social Security today denied that the residents of the Palms elderly care home were being served black tea because of a shortage of milk.
With Guyana’s pensionable cohort projected to reach 20% of the total population size by 2050, a complete overhaul of its pension system is being recommended by a recent Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Study.
President Irfaan Ali says that the worst of the economic effects of last year is over and this is now the time for recovery and rebounding.
A West Coast Berbice man was yesterday found chopped to death in the kitchen of his home located in Number Three Village, West Coast Berbice.
With limited information on the ongoing COVID-19 vaccination drive, there is strong skepticism among members of the Indigenous Wapichan and Wai-Wai tribes in some of the most far-flung communities in Region Nine, which some fear could hinder national efforts to achieve herd immunity.
A man accused of chopping his wife about her body and severing several of her fingers in the process was on Tuesday charged with attempted murder.
Two more COVID-19 deaths were yesterday recorded in Guyana, increasing the total number of deaths in the country to 231.
An arrest warrant has been issued by the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) for Rawle Junior Farrell, 32, of Sixth Street, Paradise Housing Scheme.
A fisherman was yesterday released on $300,000 bail after he was charged with the attempted murder of a Kumaka man.
A labourer, who pleaded not guilty to stealing almost two dozen cows, was yesterday released on $50,000 bail.
The Guyana Police Force (GPF) is awaiting legal advice on possible charges against the proprietors of several popular nightspots who were arrested over breaches of the COVID-19 curfew early in March.
Details are still being finalised to have COVID-19 samples sent to the United States for genetic sequencing in an effort to determine whether any variants of the virus are in Guyana.
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