Guyana News

Guyana’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs says that two boats which had been detained by Venezuela were due to set sail for home today and that legal proceedings against their crew had been discontinued at the request of that country’s President, Nicolas Maduro.

The police say they are investigating the suspected murder of  Osafo Pollard, 29, a taxi driver of West La Penitence which occurred at about 10.30 pm yesterday at North East La Penitence.

The Ministry of Labour today said it is probing the workplace death of an employee of Edward B Beharry and Company, Mandela Avenue.

The two fishing vessels and 12 crew members detained by the Venezuelan navy two weeks ago have been released and are on their way home.

The mystery behind who really holds two controversial trawling licences deepened yesterday when the trawler owners association said that it had never heard of the person named by the Ministry of Agriculture on Monday.

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has granted the Liberty and Justice Party’s (LJP) request to replace its councillor for the Regional Democratic Council (RDC) of Region Eight (Potaro-Siparuni).

Around 22,000 frontline workers are expected to make up the first recipients of COVID-19 vaccines in Guyana, according to Health Minister Dr.

Diamond resident Samuel Whaul was yesterday acquitted on charges of raping a woman with whom police had said he became acquainted through Facebook.

As his lawyer was absent from court on Monday for the commencement of trial, High Court Judge Navindra Singh threw out the $80.5 million civil suit brought by Colwyn Harding who back in 2013 had alleged that police officers had raped him by inserting a baton into his rectum.

Attorney Melinda Janki had last year urged the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) not to allow ExxonMobil and its partners to produce higher than 120,000 barrels of oil per day from the Liza-1 well as that would be going beyond its design limits and would be dangerous.

Twenty-four new COVID-19 cases were yesterday recorded. This was revealed in the Ministry of Health’s COVID-19 dashboard which showed that the new cases increased Guyana’s total number of positive confirmed cases to 7,678.

The police are investigating the death of an Aruka Mouth, North West District woman, who was found hanging at her residence on Monday.

Tenders were yesterday opened at the National Procurement and Tender Administra-tion Board for the supply and delivery of rations to the Amerindian Residence and Hinterland Scholarship Dormitory’s under the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs.

The trial of Rawle Bernard, who is accused of murder-ing a man at a barbecue on the West Coast of Berbice in 2017, began yesterday before Justice Simone Morris-Ramlall at the High Court in Berbice with the testimony of five witnesses.

The Attorney General (AG) has been removed as a party from an action filed by Atlantic Fuels Inc (AFI) against the Commissioner General of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) and others.

An electrician moonlighting as a taxi driver was robbed of his car on Monday night when he ferried a couple pretending to be passengers to Sophia.

An Essequibo Coast pensioner drowned yesterday morning at Henrietta, a few hours after leaving his home with a bottle of alcohol.

Later this month, the Guyana Court of Appeal will commence hearing the appeal filed by former Barama Company Limited supervisor Paul Abrams, who is currently serving a 25-year sentence for sodomizing a 17-year-old girl.

Over 30 security guards attached to the Integrated Security Services Inc held a protest on Monday to seek two months of payments owed to them. 

The Sheriff Street/ Mandela Avenue project is currently 58% completed, according to the Ministry of Public Works, which says the intended deadline is August 4th.