Guyana News

Within the past three months, the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security’s 914 emergency hotline received a total of 197 reports, 80% of which were domestic violence (DV)-related.

Following a request by Stabroek News, the Ministry of Housing and Water has released the names of the awardees of nearly $14b worth of contracts in the housing and infrastructure sectors and a number of contractors have clinched multiple awards.

Nine firms have pre-qualified to bid to design and build the new Demerara Harbour Bridge and government is hopeful that the selection process will be concluded to allow for construction to begin in the last quarter of the year.

As government yesterday expressed optimism that the Cheddi Jagan International Airport expansion project will be completed for the December 31 deadline as works are on track, it also announced that Chinese contractor China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) has already completed 90 per cent of outstanding issues it agreed to remedy last December.

Over 15,000 persons have so far been vaccinated against COVID-19, according to Health Minister Dr.

The University of Guyana (UG) last evening held the first of five convocation ceremonies for its 2019/2020 graduating class and President Irfaan Ali reiterated his government’s commitment to refashioning the tertiary institution.

Gold production at Aurora Gold Mine Inc (AGM) has been halted temporarily as the company works to improve its stockpile of ore to support continuous milling and processing activities, Director of Corporate Office, Compliance, and Government Relations Peter Benny has said.

A businessman is now dead following an accident at Loo Creek Public Road, Soesdyke-Linden Highway, on Tuesday night.

For a second time, Roberto Miggins and Quacy Benjamin have both been freed of a charge of murder owing to the state’s failure to present sufficient evidence against them.

A minor was yesterday charged and remanded over the murder of 10-year-old Anthony Cort, who was shot dead last week during a robbery in Sophia.

A post-mortem examination has determined that four-month-old Kaylee Williams, who was found pinned under one of her father’s feet in the wee hours of Sunday morning, died of traumatic asphyxia.

The mother of Raoul Anthony Melville, the taxi-driver who is suspected to have been murdered in his Bagotstown home, is calling for his killer/s to be brought to justice.

The husband of Beverly Bumbury, the pregnant woman who died during the wee hours of Sunday morning while en route to the hospital, is calling for a probe into what he says was a refusal by a health worker to offer medical care to his wife before her death.

O’Neisha Stellingburg, the woman who lost control of the car she was driving a week and a half ago at Moblissa, Linden Highway, remains in an unconscious state in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).

Thousands of Marijuana plants were yesterday destroyed by the police during a drug eradication exercise at the rear of Yarrowkabra Village, along the Soesdyke-Linden Highway.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) on Friday said that the Government of Guyana has granted a further extension to the tax relief measures on medical and other supplies for COVID-19 prevention, care and treatment.

The Guyana Police Force today between 7.20 am and 12:30 pm, conducted a ganja eradication exercise in the swamp lands about six miles aback Yarrowkabra Village, Soesdyke-Linden Highway.

Minister of Public Works Juan Edghill today toured the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) expansion project which has seen a host of problems in recent years.

A minor was today charged and remanded over the murder of 10-year-old Anthony Cort, who was shot dead last week during a robbery in Sophia.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) today said that the Government of Guyana has granted a further extension to the tax relief measures on medical and other supplies for COVID-19 prevention, care and treatment.