Guyana News

Government is expecting the first set of Russian Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccines to arrive in Guyana later this week and will continue the expansion of the vaccination programme as more shots arrive.

According to a release from the Guyana Police Force (GPF), Paul Watson, a former policeman of Zeelugt, EBE, was arrested yesterday for obtaining money under false pretence.

The United States has welcomed the news that COVAX has completed its first delivery of COVID-19 vaccines to Guyana. 

Brothers Phillip and Fidel Williams will now have to face a retrial over the 2016 murder of Brazilian gold miner, Naldinho De Costa Souza, after a jury was unable to arrive at a verdict.

An Orealla man is now dead after reportedly swallowing his dentures while on the operating table at the New Amsterdam Public Hospital.

Two sisters have been admitted to the Linden Hospital Complex nursing multiple injuries, including burns and a broken limb, after an attack was launched by the boyfriend of one of them.

For failing to file his defence on time in a libel action brought against him, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo has been ordered to pay former Minister within the Ministry of Communities Annette Ferguson, the sum of $20,000,000.

According to a press release from the United States Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) a Guyanese man was detained at the John F.

A woman is now hospitalised at the West Demerara Regional Hospital (WDRH) after she fell from a speeding ATV in an accident along the Pouderoyen Public Road, West Bank Demerara on Monday night.

The European Union Election Observation Mission (EU EOM) last week organized a Stakeholder Roundtable to receive feedback on its Final Report and Recommendations on the March 2020 General and Regional Elections and according to Attorney General Anil Nandlall everyone present committed to reform.

The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport has apologised to the public for not being able to air the Senior and Junior Calypso Monarch and the Junior Soca Monarch competitions as previously announced.

The Central Corentyne Chamber of Commerce held its 15th Annual General Meeting on March 24, 2021 at which a new Executive Body was elected to serve for the fiscal year 2021-2022.

A 46-year-old Linden man was yesterday brought before a city court to answer a burglary charge.

For failing to file his defence on time in a libel action brought against him, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo has been ordered to pay former Minister within the Ministry of Communities Annette Ferguson, the sum of $20,000,000.

GENEVA/ZURICH  (Reuters) – Data was withheld from World Health Organization investigators who travelled to China to research the origins of the coronavirus epidemic, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said today.

Convicted drug-trafficker Shaheed Roger Khan on Monday said that he was the target of the recent `hit’ outside the Palm Court bar that claimed the life of gold dealer Ricardo Fagundes and he called on President Irfaan Ali to ensure the investigation is “impartial” as he demanded justice.

Ensuring proper management of Guyana’s projected oil bonanza will likely pose a great challenge given social and political pressures and the country should therefore adopt an expenditure rule, according to a February 2021 Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) study.

Around 31,000 persons have so far received COVID-19 vaccines and the administration of second doses to those who were in the initial batches is expected to begin this week.

An Enmore, East Coast Demerara (ECD) motorcyclist died yesterday morning following a collision with a canter truck along Melanie, ECD Public Road.

Saying Guyana is “deeply concerned” over the widening development gap between rich and poor countries as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, President Irfaan Ali yesterday issued a call for more systems to be put in place to aid countries struggling to rebound from the effects.