Guyana News

Chief Fire Officer Marlon Gentle has retired after giving 36 years to the Guyana Fire Service (GFS).

The Guyana Lottery Company (GLC) on Friday evening officially opened its new Blast Gaming Centre.

Dominican Republic national Luis Antonio Corniel has filed a US$30,000 lawsuit against Alpha Petroleum Trading Inc.,

Although small- and medium-scale gold miners recorded a drop in production last year, the Guyana Gold and Diamond Miner’s Association (GGDMA) has said there was nevertheless a rise in export earnings from the precious metal over the previous year.

South Rupununi ranchers are calling on law enforcers to ensure that justice is done as they await charges against cattle rustlers who were recently caught red-handed.

A woman was shot and robbed of her handbag while shopping for lemons at the Bourda Market yesterday morning.

The police are searching for two men who robbed a 27-year-old Sophia resident of her motorcycle on Friday night and shot in her direction during the attack.

A motorcyclist is now in a critical condition at a city hospital after he was involved in a collision along Brickdam early yesterday morning.

Firefighters managed to contain a fire at the Celina’s Resort at the Kitty Seawall on Friday evening. 

Finding no evidence of breach of contract, High Court Judge Sandra Kurtzious last Monday dismissed a $242 million lawsuit filed against the government by Dynamic Engineering Construction Company Limited.

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) recently collaborated with the Ministry of Health’s Chronic Disease Unit to offer a week of free pap smears and Visual Inspection with Acetic Acid (VIA) screening to women across Guyana in a bid to promote the early detection of cancer.

Farmers from the Pomeroon who were affected by prolonged flooding over the past few weeks today received aid in the form of fertilizers, chemicals and other planting material from the National Agriculture Research and Extension Institute (NAREI).

The Guyana Police Force is investigating the murder of Emanuel Solomon, age 20 years, unemployed of Lot 317 Belle West, West Bank Demerara, which occurred yesterday about 6.30 pm infront of the above mentioned address alleged by three males who are brothers of Belle West, West Bank Demerara.

In the wake of equipment problems on its offshore platform, ExxonMobil yesterday said that it has cut oil production but it didn’t say by how much and there is no word on the volume of gas being flared which has become a major environmental issue.

Hours after he was allegedly attacked by a fellow inmate at the Lusignan Prison, a 40-year-old Kitty man succumbed at a city hospital yesterday morning.

After months of delay, members of the Regional Democratic Council (RDC) of Region Eight (Potaro-Siparuni) were sworn-in yesterday and the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) representative Headley Pio secured the chairmanship through the crucial support of the Liberty and Justice Party (LJP).

Vernan Ravi Rangadoo, the Corentyne, Berbice man who fatally stabbed his two step-nephews on Sunday evening at Number 43 Village, was yester-day remanded to prison after he was charged with their murders.

The ever widening cracks in the walls of 27 houses as well as the Sawariwau Primary School in Katoonarib are visible evidence of Sunday’s 5.7 magnitude earthquake in the Deep South Rupu-nuni, as the community continues to experience aftershocks.   

The Ministry of Health (MoH) yesterday disclosed that another person has succumbed to COVID-19 while receiving treatment at a hospital, taking the country’s death toll to 180.

Following a lengthy debate, the National Assembly on Thursday passed an amendment to the Fiscal Management and Accountability Act (FMAA) which removes the requirement that budgets for constitutional agencies be submitted directly to the National Assembly and be reflected as lump sum subventions in the National Estimates.