Guyana News

A sum of approximately $1.1 billion has been set aside in the Guyana Elections Commission’s (GECOM) 2021 budget for local government elections although no provisions have been made for house-to-house registration, which is seen as a key prerequisite for the holding of future polls.

The trial of Kevin Mohan who is accused of the 2016 stabbing death of his aunt is currently underway before Justice Navindra Singh and a jury at the High Court in Georgetown.

A woman who admitted to attempting to extort $10 million from her boyfriend by threatening to tell the police that he raped her, yesterday changed her plea.

Minister of Human Services and Social Security Vindhya Persaud on Wednesday said that she is “deeply disturbed” and “horrified” at the recent incidents of violence against women and is calling for “harsher” penalties for the perpetrators of these acts.

Approximately $1.5 million has been allocated for the employment of a consultant whose function will be to help prepare parliamentary manuals for government agencies.

Tenders were on Tuesday opened at the National Procurement and Tender Administra-tion Board for a number of water supply projects under the Guyana Water Inc in Regions Seven and Eight.

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) yesterday said it handed over completed civil works projects to three communities on Thursday.

Fifty-four students between Dochfour and Greenfield on the East Coast of Demerara recently received tablet computers from a US-based group.

A $328M rehabilitation of the Onverwagt main access road in the Mahaica, Mahaicony, Abary- Agriculture Development Authority (MMA-ADA) Scheme commenced last Friday, the Ministry of Agriculture said on Monday.

In observation of International Women’s Day this year, the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security (MoHSSS) on Wednesday launched WE LIFT: Women’s Empowerment.

A gas pump in the engine room of the M.V Barima reportedly exploded on Wednesday, causing a fire aboard the vessel as it was docked at Port Kaituma.

The Bank of Guyana (BoG) yesterday warned that a Trinidad bank which has entered an agreement to buy Scotiabank’s operations here does not have a licence to operate in this country.

A doctor and two nurses have been suspended from the New Amsterdam Hospital after the investigation into the deaths of Vanessa Lewis-Sahadeo and her baby last week found them to be negligent, Minister of Health Dr.

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

Speaker of the National Assembly Manzoor Nadir was forced to suspend indefinitely today’s sitting after members of the opposition protested the presence of Minister Kwame McCoy in the Chamber. 

ExxonMobil’s first well in the Canje offshore block has been deemed non-commercial, according to Westmount, an investor in one of the partners in the venture.

Yesterday’s sitting of Parliament was suspended after it was alleged that Minister of Public Affairs, Kwame McCoy had assaulted opposition Member of Parliament, Tabitha Sarabo-Halley.

Canadian-owned Scotia-bank announced yesterday that it has reached an agreement for the sale of its banking operations in Guyana to First Citizens Bank Limited of Trinidad and Tobago, a move that Minister with responsibility for Finance, Dr Ashni Singh labelled as “premature and inappropriate”.

As the probe continues into the recent interception of  306 pounds of cocaine in Jamaica from Guyana, the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) was last night questioning the shippers and brokers connected to  the two containers in question.

The relatives of a Number 19 Village, Corentyne, Berbice woman are claiming that negligence at a state health centre resulted in the death of their loved one,   hours after she visited the facility on February 01.