Guyana News

The Guyana Police Force is expected to receive advice shortly from the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) in relation to an accident that claimed the life of Randy Samuels, who was hit down by a Puran Brothers garbage truck in November of last year.

Minister of Health  Dr. Frank Anthony yesterday refuted claims in some sections of the media of breaching the COVID-19 protocols yesterday at Parliament.

A Lindener who was charged with breach of restriction on social activities was found guilty of the offence and jailed for two weeks.

Minister with responsibility for Finance, Dr Ashni Singh yesterday told reporters that his office is working to have the 2021 Budget presented before the end of February.

Guyana has recently submitted documents to be able to access a first wave of COVID-19 vaccines from the COVAX facility by next month.

The Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) last night said it has handed over its report to the Police Cyber-Crimes Unit for action on a dangerous social media post, allegedly made by former Minister and current Member of Parliament, Cathy Hughes on the Facebook page of Nigel Hughes.

Speaker of the National Assembly, Manzoor Nadir, today urged the public to adhere to COVID-19 measures disclosing that his second experience with the virus was so severe that he feared that he might not be able to have a normal life again.

Ninety new COVID cases were reported today raising further questions about whether containment measures have to be stepped up.

Canada today called for the immediate release of two Guyanese fishing vessels seized by Venezuela last week in Guyana’s waters.

Guyana went up by one point with a score of 41 and ranking of 83 out of 180 countries in the latest Transparency International (TI) Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) Report 2020 released yesterday.

With a production target already surpassing the 120,000 barrels per day forecast, Guyana will this year see heightened oil and gas activity as Stabroek Block partner, Hess, yesterday remained bullish on operations here and announced a number of developmental plans this year for its “growth and cash engine”.

The PPP/C government is proposing to remove custodial sentences for possession of up to 30 grammes of cannabis.

A vagrant was beaten to death early yesterday morning while sleeping on the pavement at the corner of Camp and Robb streets, Georgetown and his attacker has since confessed to the crime.

The Organisation of American States (OAS) yesterday condemned the seizure of two fishing vessels with their crew last week by Venezuela from Guyana’s waters and called for their immediate release, even as this country rebuked the Opposition-led Juan Guaidó’s support for the action of the Nicolas Maduro government.

Asif Hamid, who earlier in the month pleaded guilty to killing Henry Lallman who was found in a shallow grave back in August, 2015, was yesterday sentenced to fifteen years in prison.  

Former President and long-serving Prime Minister, Sam Hinds is tipped to be Guyana’s new Ambassador to the United States, well-placed sources say.

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) yesterday expressed  grave concern at the escalation of tensions between Guyana and Venezuela caused by the interception and detention in Guyana’s Exclusive Economic Zone of two Guyanese fishing vessels by a Venezuelan naval vessel on January 21, 2021.

Finding a breach of natural justice, acting Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire SC yesterday quashed a deportation order which had been issued against the 26 Haitian nationals who were detained for weeks last year by the government at the state-run Hugo Chavez Centre for Rehabilitation and Reintegration.

Finding a 2015 verdict of the jury to have been supported by evidence, the Guyana Court of Appeal yesterday affirmed the conviction of septuagenarian Kenrick Morrison, for sexually assaulting a child back in 2013.

Minister of Local Government and Regional Development Nigel Dharamlall yesterday instructed the Mayor and Town Council of Mabaruma in Region One to halt the planned cutting of century-old rubber trees that line the Philbert Pierre Avenue.