Guyana News

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

Ricardo Fagundes, the gold dealer who was gunned down on Sunday night outside of the Palm Court bar on Main Street, Georgetown was shot about 20 times.

President Irfaan Ali last evening announced that the COVID-19 vaccination campaign will be expanded next week to include persons over 40 and more shots  are being procured for this.

Thirty-two-year-old taxi driver, Sahadeo Pooran, called “Omesh,” was yesterday morning sentenced to 21 years in prison for raping a 12-year-old girl back in 2019.

Businesses that continue to charge their customers Value Added Tax (VAT) on items for which the VAT has been removed or has been reduced will face the full brunt of the law says Senior Minister in the Office of the President with Responsibility for Finance Dr Ashni Singh.

Though facing a retrial a little over a month since a jury was unable to reach a verdict on the murder charge levelled against him, Stephon Barlow was back in court yesterday, pleading this time to manslaughter.

Imran Ramsaywack and Ryan Jones, the two prison escapees who along with a female were fatally wounded on Monday night during a reported shoot-out with the police died as a result of multiple gunshot injuries.

Police Commissioner (ag) Nigel Hoppie has written to Speaker of the National Assembly Manzoor Nadir informing him that the police investigation into the alleged assault of APNU+AFC Member of Parliament (MP) Tabitha Sarabo-Halley did not point to any evidence of physical attack.

Guyana’s filaria elimination campaign is now complete with approximately 70 per cent of the population having received the filarial pills according to Minister of Health, Dr Frank Anthony.

The Ministry of Health yesterday said another person who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has died.

A businessman accused of obtaining millions of dollars from clients was yesterday slapped with three more fraud charges.

The relatives of Vanessa Lewis-Sahadeo yesterday reported to Stabroek News that they were told by health officials during a visit to their home that the woman who had had a still-birth on February 27th died at the New Amsterdam Public Hospital.

Five persons are now homeless following a fire at their Lot 2 Herstelling New Scheme, East Bank Demerara residence yesterday afternoon.

A businessman who allegedly threatened the mother of his child, was on Tuesday arrested after he was found with a firearm and ammunition in a haversack he was carrying.

The U.S. Embassy Humanitarian Assistance Program (HAP) Team conducted medical training with members of the Guyanese Ministry of Health in Port Kaituma on Tuesday and yesterday.

The Regional Health Services in collaboration with the National Tuberculosis Programme and the Regional Administration of Region Six yesterday commissioned a Chest Clinic in the compound of the Port Mourant Hospital.

For the first time, the Oncology Clinic of the Georgetown Public Hos-pital (GPHC) has been outfitted with a sanitary pad dispenser.

In submissions to his challenge over the appointment of Sarah Browne and Vikash Ramkissoon as Parliamentary Secretaries, APNU+AFC  MP Christopher Jones says there is no provision permitting such appointees to hold seats as Elected Members of the National Assembly.

Two men who were on Monday charged with robbing a truck driver of his cellphone and other items have been remanded.

Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Hugh Todd, earlier this month met virtually with Non-Resident Ambassador of Japan to Guyana, Tatsuo Hirayama, during which they express-ed interest in further strengthening relations between the two countries.