Guyana News

Police arrested two men shortly after they robbed a salesman of $150,000 cash and a gold ring on Thursday night at Plantation Opposite, Essequibo.

The Ministry of Health today reported 79 new COVID-19 cases. Recent days have seen a dramatic rise in cases linked to expanded socialising and loosening of restrictions.

President Irfaan Ali today said that a new road link connecting communities on the East Bank of Demerara is expected to significantly cut commute time for residents and modernise the surrounding areas.

Over a year after he was questioned by the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) and it was found that there was no wrongdoing in the award of the feasibility contract for the New Demerara Harbour Bridge, former Minister of Public Infrastructure David Patterson was yesterday again questioned by SOCU on the same issue.

UNICEF’s Representative Nicolas Pron yesterday handed over two solar fridges and 50 vaccine carriers to Minister of Health Dr.

Thirty-two restaurants have so far been given approval to go ahead with indoor dining at a 40% capacity in keeping with the amended COVID-19 gazetted emergency measures.

A  committee comprising members from the Ministry of Agriculture and the Guyana Association of Trawler Owners and Seafood Processors (GATOSP) will be installed in the new week to address the controversial issuance of two new trawler licences for seabob fishing operations.

Ryan Singh, the man accused of killing his teenage girlfriend by slitting her throat in July, 2017, was earlier this month sentenced to 16 years in prison.

A man was yesterday robbed of $8,030,000, one silver-grey car and a Samsung A20 cellular phone valued at $40,000 while uplifting sales monies.

Minister of Agriculture, Zulfikar Mustapha, on Thursday told Upper Corentyne cattle and rice farmers that the materials for the construction of a fence for cattle grazing within the Number 52 to Number 74 Corentyne area are currently being procured.

An armed robbery was on Thursday committed on a restaurant owner in the vicinity of Thomas Street, South Cummings-burg.

Seventy-six new COVID-19 cases were yesterday recorded with fifty-six of these coming from Region Four.

The Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development has commenced rehabilitation works at the Mon Repos Market, East Coast Demerara, budgeted at $10 million.

A man charged with robbing a GDF lieutenant of jewellery and electronic gadgets has been remanded to prison after denying the charge.

The  Ministerial Advisory Committee established on the Guyana-Venezuela border controversy met yesterday at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

A bill on human tissue transplanting could be ready for parliament by May this year, according to a release on Wednesday from the Attorney General’s Chambers.

Those persons listed for National Awards by former President David Granger in 2020 have been told to uplift their awards from the Office of the President as there will be no ceremony or the customary conferral by the President.

Members of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) on Wednesday conducted an exercise in the Canje River during which they found approximately twelve acres of cultivated cannabis.

Mila’s Baby and Me is a pre-packed maternity bag business that was founded in July, 2020 by Kamila Atherley, a nurse attached to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).

Minister of Housing and Water, Collin Croal has announced that $100 million has been allocated for remedial road works in several areas along the East Bank of Demerara.