Guyana News

The body of a fisherman was yesterday found lying on rocks at the Leonora seawall, West Coast Demerara.

Schoolchildren of Enterprise Village, East Coast Demerara, will now have easier access to school with the planned construction of a pedestrian bridge linking the community with Non Pariel.

Ganesh Ramcharran, 19, a vendor, was on Monday charged with assault and use of threatening behaviour when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Courts before Principal Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus.

More than two years after his conviction for murder, Dellon Henry, called `Nasty Man,’ is hoping that the Court of Appeal will allow him to file an out-of-time appeal.

One hundred and fifty youths from Georgetown, Linden and Berbice will be trained in digital and data skills over three months, according to a release on Sunday from the University of Guyana.

The authorities in Region One are awaiting the Guyana Forestry Commission Report on the rubber trees located in Mabaruma, Region One.

Japan is to assist Guyana and three other CARICOM countries with the treatment of COVID-19 infected patients.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has announced a new procedure for the examination of exports and scanning.

Minister of Health Dr. Frank Anthony has said health authorities are likely to administer COVID-19 vaccines in four phases.

Six persons including a shipper were arrested yesterday morning following the discovery of 3.304 kilograms of suspected cocaine hidden in salted fish at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri.

ExxonMobil yesterday said that teams are finalizing the logistics for the departure of the flash gas compressor and silencers for the Liza-1 platform from Germany to Guyana this week.

The Trinidad and Tobago-based Francis Lau Boyce Construction Inc. (FLB) was officially launched yesterday at a ceremony at its Georgetown office.

Two Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) estates are celebrating after surpassing their weekly sugar production target for the first time in months.

The COVID-19 death toll in Guyana now stands at 203 as two more fatalities were recorded yesterday.

Trinidad-headquartered Ramps Logistics has launched a new direct service from Miami, USA to Guyana for those shipping less than a container.

The wife of goldsmith Vijay Jaigobin, the man who died after crashing his vehicle into a culvert and toppling into a nearby trench at the Berbice Bridge Entrance last Thursday, succumbed yesterday to the injuries she suffered in the accident.

An Albouystown man is now dead after he was run over by a truck at the junction of Houston Public Road and Mandela Avenue yesterday morning.

A 47-year-old Linden resident was on Saturday night discovered dead in front his house shortly after he was involved in a confrontation with two females and an autopsy yesterday showed that he died as a result of hypotension and gastritis.

A vendor was yesterday released on bail after being charged with assaulting a lawman, property damage and use of threatening and abusive language even as her lawyer says the police assaulted her Vanessa Gonsalves, 38, of Lot 45 Princes Street, was yesterday charged with assaulting a police officer along with three other charges when she appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts.

Stricter protocols for the COVID-19 vaccination campaign are expected to be in place so as to prevent persons from “jumping the queue”.