Guyana News

The Ministry of Natural Resources, in conjunction with the Protected Areas Commission, is calling on all miners and loggers carrying out illegal operations within designated Protected Areas to cease forthwith all such activities.

Bids were on Tuesday announced at the National Procurement & Tender Administration Board for the procurement of security services for the Ministry of Health under six lots.

A security guard was on Tuesday held at gun point and relieved of his car and other valuables by a man who posed as a passenger, and his accomplice, at Latchman Sand Road, Soesdyke, East Bank Demerara.

A man was on Tuesday released on $100,000 bail after pleading not guilty to two charges of possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking.

Persons 40 years and older will from next week be eligible to receive  COVID-19 vaccines.

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

(Barbados Nation) Businessman Hamenauth Sarendranauth, who fought to get bail on COVID-19 charges, died yesterday – the day he was supposed to return to court.

Following reports that Nazar ‘Shell’ Mohammed has been granted four quarrying licences for development, BK International yesterday registered its objection saying that the areas granted overlap acre-age it has already applied for and prospected on.

A search is underway for a man who shot at police and then fled, triggering the fatal shooting of two prison escapees and a woman on Monday night in the Better Hope South backlands.

The Ministry of Health is hoping to stabilise the country’s drug and medical supplies by July after having to discard billions of dollars in expired stocks, Health Minister Dr.

As police continue their investigations into the execution-style killing of Ricardo Fagundes, forensic investigators are working to determine if the car found on fire at Swan Village was the getaway vehicle used by his assailants.

Anticipating “significant progress” in the partnership with government in advancing the gas-to-shore project here, ExxonMobil yesterday announced that the associated gas availability from the Liza fields has been changed from 35 million standard cubic feet per day (mmscfd) to 50 mmscfd. 

Guyana’s COVID-19 fatalities yesterday jumped to 220 as four new deaths were recorded.

Tenders were yesterday opened at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board for the construction of the new St.

Brian Seymour who was last week found not guilty of attempted murder but guilty of felonious wounding committed on Leon Charles at Litchfield Village, West Coast Berbice, on February 10, 2016, was yesterday sentenced to seven years imprisonment.

Two prisoners were taken to seek treatment at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) after being attacked by fellow inmates at the Lusignan Prison on Monday.

President Irfaan Ali yesterday promised “fiscal incentives” and “boundless” investment opportunities to participants at a Guyana-European Union Investment Conference.   

Some 20,470 persons have been vaccinated as of Monday, while no adverse reactions to any of the vaccines used here have been reported.

A post-mortem examination conducted on the remains of 15-month-old Sahara La Cruz, who died last Tuesday at her Cabora Village, Moruca residence, has determined the cause of her death to be a brain infection.

Two weeks after the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) issued a demand letter to SOL Guyana Inc (Sol) for more than $3.3 billion in Excise Taxes and interest, the two entities are engaged in a discussion on the way forward.