Guyana News

A teenager was charged yesterday with causing the death by dangerous driving of two friends in the wee hours of Valentine’s Day.

Local authorities have since notified officials in Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) to be on the lookout for the boat containing human bodies which disappeared after it was found floating offshore Guyana on Monday.

A 32-year-old pork knocker was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with the murder of Jonah Williams, a Bara-mita farmer who was chopped to death in November last year.

The Ethnic Relations Com-mission (ERC) has taken more persons to court in relation to racial incitement.

Guyana yesterday recorded another COVID-19 fatality even as 51 new cases of the virus were reported.

Cook Alexis Turpin and her lover Stephon Barlow are now likely to face a fresh trial over the 2016 murder of Turpin’s partner, Sherwin Johnson after a jury was unable to arrive at a verdict.

Health authorities are still to decide whether they will withhold vaccines from the initial set to be used as a second dose for frontline workers or to inoculate another 1500 with the first shot.

Four persons who confessed to breaching the COVID-19 Emergency Measures by attending a party were yesterday fined while the alleged host was granted bail.

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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation in collaboration with the Inter-national Organization of Migration (IOM), on Tuesday launched the Migration Profile in Guyana: Promoting Evidence-Based Policy-Making project.

Leader of the Opposition Joseph Harmon on Tuesday declared that the 2021 budget was mostly vacuous and meaningless.

Major rehabilitation works have been projected for three stellings in Region One, Minister of Finance Dr Ashni Singh told the National Assembly during his presentation of the 2021 budget on Friday.

An 18-year-old gold miner was last Friday seriously injured by three known suspects at Five Star Landing, North West District, Region One.

A man yesterday denied two armed robbery charges allegedly committed on Valentine’s Day and was placed on $100,000 bail.

The Albion sugar estate is expected to start harvesting today and grinding operations are expected to commence in a few days, following the  burning of the first beds of canes yesterday, with Estate Manager, Threbhowan Shiwprasad saying that he is  optimistic about the future of the estate and GuySuCo in general. 

Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation,  Hugh Todd, yesterday met virtually with the Heads of Guyana’s Missions abroad and Directors of the Ministry.

Yesterday Paul Subryan, General Manager of KFC Guyana handed over 250 Amazon tablets to the Ministry of Education.

The police in Berbice have  received advice to release on bail the New Amsterdam woman who fatally stabbed her husband during the wee hours of Friday, until investigators complete their probe, a source said yesterday.

Three Corentyne men who were allegedly busted with firearms and ammunition in Port Mourant last Thursday have since been charged and placed on $250,000 bail each.

Two Corentyne men who were charged jointly with simple larceny were ordered to compensate the victim with $175,000 or spend six months in prison.