Guyana News

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.

The Guyana Oil (Guyoil) Company Limited brought the curtains down on their Christmas Promotion ‘Be a Super 95 Millionaire’ with a grand presentation to five winners hosted at their Regent Street Service Station on  January 19.

The Guyana Association of Professional Engineers (GAPE) on Thursday lauded the late engineer Philip Allsopp for pioneering achievements in the profession.

Lyndon Kyte, the pensioner who perished in the fire which gutted the Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara (ECD) apartment he rented, died as a result of smoke inhalation and burn injuries, an autopsy confirmed.

The U.S. Embassy here yesterday announced the opening of the application period for the Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative (YLAI) Professional Fellows Program.

Sentenced late last year to 43 years for the murder of amateur footballer Paul Daniels, construction worker Alvin Jones has lodged an appeal with the Guyana Court of Appeal.

Referencing new information being brought to the fore, Attorney General (AG) Anil Nandlall SC is renewing his calls for the striking out of the action brought late last year on behalf of the 26 Haitian nationals who were detained for weeks at the state-run Hugo Chavez Centre for Rehabilitation and Reintegration. 

The field hospital that was recently donated to Guyana is now expected to be set up in the compound of the Centre for Infectious Disease at Liliendaal instead of the West Demerara Regional Hospital as was previously announced.

Ranks of the Joint Services this morning carried out a search at the Camp Street prison during which a quantity of contraband items including seven improvised weapons were unearthed.

The approval of two new trawler licences for seabob fishing operations does not breach the quota of vessels that can operate nor does it threaten the international certification of the trade, Minister of Agriculture Zulfikar Mustapha last night told Stabroek News.

The Alliance for Change (AFC) yesterday stood by its embattled former Minister, David Patterson who is embroiled in a scandal over gift giving to him and his colleague minister by government agencies which were under their purview between 2015 and 2020.

Asif Hamid recently pleaded guilty to killing Henry Lallman who was found in a shallow grave back in August, 2015. 

An alternative road link aimed at significantly reducing traffic congestion on the East Bank of Demerara is currently under construction and is on schedule to be completed by April.

The Liberty and Justice Party (LJP) yesterday said it has lost confidence in its candidate for the Region Eight council, Jimmy James  and is seeking to replace him and it also accused the GECOM Secretariat of frustrating the proposed change.

In an effort to address the water issues along the East Bank of Demerara, the Minister of Housing and Water, Collin Croal on Monday announced that $40 million will be put towards the construction of a new well in the Providence area.

Sentenced to 56 years for the 2017 murder of his neighbour Courtney Porter, Foster Gravesande is appealing both his conviction and sentence which he argues is severe.

Residents and businesspersons in the Thomas and New Market streets area are calling on the Guyana Police Force to up their game plan in response to the recent spate of robberies there.

A Soesdyke man died on Wednesday after he lost control of  his motorbike and collided with a vehicle on the McDoom Public Road.

A number of communities around Guyana are being monitored over spikes in COVID-19 cases.

A police constable on duty was yesterday morning hit by a truck in the vicinity of Rahaman’s Park, Houston Public Road, East Bank Demerara.