Guyana News

Several measures are being implemented at the Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB) to enable maintenance work following damage to span nine, the Department of Public Information (DPI) said on Sunday.

In the aftermath of the flooding that affected hundreds of residents on Sunday due to the failure of an operator to close a sluice gate at Princes Street, Deputy Mayor Alfred Mentore yesterday said the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) has the situation well in hand while adding that persons responsible would be reprimanded.

Key roads in Good Hope and Mon Repos on the East Coast of Demerara are to be repaired, according to the Department of Public Information (DPI).

Guyana’s COVID-19 death toll now stands at 229 after two more fatalities were recorded yesterday.

A soldier remains hospitalised at the Linden Hospital Complex after he and another Guyana Defence Force (GDF) rank were allegedly beaten and wounded by civilians on Saturday night.

With an ongoing battle between government and the opposition over the Chairmanship delaying the work of the Public Accounts Committee, the reconstitution of the Public Procurement Commis-sion (PPC) has also been stalled.

Fourteen persons were arrested early on Sunday morning after the police raided a party at Pouderoyen, West Bank Demerara to enforce the COVID-19 measures.

The Ministry of Education’s Welfare Department at Linden, in Region Ten, has advised both learners and their parents to use stress-relieving activities to cope with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Ranks of the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) were last night involved in a chase along the Lusignan Railway Embankment, East Coast Demerara with a civilian motor vehicle, suspected to have contained illegal drugs.

Officials from the Guyana National Fisherfolk Organization (GNFO) on Friday hosted their second national election.

A party of police officers yesterday morning carried out a raid at the New Amsterdam prison during which a quantity of contraband items including seven improvised weapons were found and seized.

Minister of Amerindian Affairs,  Pauline Sukhai says Government is taking steps to boost agriculture production in Amerindian communities countrywide.

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) today said that it is doing a comprehensive probe of the murder of Ricardo Fagundes two weeks ago outside of the Palm Court Bar on Main Street.

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

(PAHO) — The Government of Canada announced it would contribute CAN$1,200,000 (approximately USD$950,000) to support the efforts of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) against COVID-19 in six Caribbean countries.

The consignment of 24,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, obtained through COVAX mechanism arrived this morning at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri, according to a release from the COVAX partners.

The Government says it  is preparing to add additional patrols along this country’s western river spaces to combat piracy and other security threats and a meeting is being planned with local fisherfolk to discuss equipping their vessels with affordable satellite-tracking devices.

The family of an Industry, East Coast Demerara woman, who the Ministry of Health yesterday said died as a result of COVID-19, is refuting the  claim and say they believe she died from postpartum complications.

A twenty-three-year-old pedestrian was fatally struck by a car driven by an off-duty lawman in the vicinity of Bounty Farm Limited, Timehri Public Road, East Bank Demerara on Saturday night.

A heated argument between drinking buddies turned deadly when a Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo (EBE) man was  stabbed with a pair of scissors during the wee hours of yesterday.