Guyana News

ST JOHN’S, Antigua,  CMC – All-rounder Jason Holder has been sacked as Test captain and replaced by compatriot Kraigg Brathwaite for the two-Test series against Sri Lanka starting later this month, Cricket West Indies announced late today.

The Guyana Police Force say it is investigating the murder of 11-year-old student Anthony Cort who was reportedly shot dead by one of two bandits during a robbery earlier today.

APNU+AFC today called for the immediate release from police custody of former lands and surveys commissioner Trevor Benn.

Veteran engineer Raymond Latchmansingh has passed away, according to the Guyana Association of Professional Engineers (GAPE) in a Facebook post.

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

With a steep decline in applications for housing loans in 2020 and government’s promise of 50,000 house lots by 2025, the New Building Society is seeking to increase its portfolio this year and yesterday announced a reduction in interest rates following formal approval of the lifting of the loans threshold from $12 to $15 million which had been announced in Budget 2021.

By Readawne Henery The Ministry of Health yesterday began vaccinating persons sixty years and older with both the Oxford- AstraZeneca Covishield, and Chinese Sinopharm vaccines at the Vreed-en-Hoop Health Centre, West Bank Demerara, the Enmore Polyclinic on the East Coast of Demerara and other centres across the country.

As the global price for crude oil continues to rise steadily, Guyana has received the highest rate since petroleum production began offshore in December of 2019, averaging US$61 per barrel on its latest and fifth lift of one million barrels.

As he had previously hinted, Attorney General (AG) Anil Nandlall SC has filed a more than $400 million lawsuit against S.

Former head of the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB), Jagnarine Singh has been appointed the new acting Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute (NAREI).

The Guyana Police Force today said that the removal of the police chaplain Pastor Patrick Doolichand has been rescinded.

It has been one year since Guyana recorded its first Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) case and while the pain of the sudden death of the country’s ‘Patient Zero’ remains fresh, uncertainty also still looms as to where she might have contracted the virus.

Eighty-one new cases of COVID-19 were yesterday  recorded even as one new fatality was reported.

Former Commissioner and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission (GL&SC), Trevor Benn was arrested by the police yesterday morning for questioning in relation to the sale of several acres of land belonging to the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL).

Guyana is expected to increase its testing for variants of the novel coronavirus through a new partnership with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, USA.

In a majority verdict of 10-2 on manslaughter, a jury yesterday acquitted Mark Louchee of the 2003 killing of Collis De Abreu who police had said he shot outside the Blue Iguana nightclub.

Express International Inc has been managing its parent company’s US trucking service from the West Demerara and 200 jobs have been created here and  more are planned.

Tenders were on Tuesday opened at the National Procurement & Tender Administration Board for the supply and delivery of Water Meter Boxes for the Guyana Water Inc.

Guyana’s mangrove forests which are an important part of coastal sea defence will soon benefit from a multi-institutional agreement that will allow for enhanced monitoring and evaluation as well as much-needed protection.

The National Assembly last Thursday passed unopposed a $25 billion budget for the Ministry of Education which Minister Priya Manickchand has described as “all about responding to COVID-19”.