Guyana News

Fifty-two new COVID-19 cases were yesterday  registered as cases in the country continue to rise daily.

The Ethnic Relations Commis-sion (ERC) has instituted charges against four woman who have allegedly committed offences capable of resulting in racial or ethnic violence or hatred among the Guyanese people.

Minister of Agriculture, Zulfikar Mustapha during a visit to the Upper Corentyne yesterday announced that Cabinet had given  a no objection to the design and supervision of the 25-kilometre road which will stretch from Number 52 Village, to the Canje Creek, Corentyne, and is expected to open up approximately 10,000 acres of land. 

Sentenced to life imprisonment for the 2016 chopping deaths of a Berbice couple; and 17 years for the 2017 death of a fellow inmate, Rooplall Abrahim has filed with the Guyana Court of Appeal, a notice of his intention to appeal.

A Chateau Margot resident can now digitally control and monitor his home and assorted appliances, and even engage in online studies thanks to  winning GTT’s Smart Home makeover.

Chateram Ramdihal Chartered Accountants (CRCA), a Professional Services Firm launched its Berbice office on Friday January 8, 2021, the firm stated in a press release yesterday.

A Lindener was on Tuesday fined $10,000 after pleading guilty to using abusive language toward a woman.

The police are investigating the robbery of an East Ruimveldt resident who was attacked at gun point by a known suspect. 

A security guard is now in police custody after he allegedly pretended to be a CANU officer when he assaulted a vendor on Tuesday.

A  man accused of assaulting and attempting to rob a Linden taxi driver was released on $75,000 bail after denying the charge.

After days of silence, former Minister of Public Infrastructure (MoPI) David Patterson yesterday acknowledged that he had received gifts from government agencies under his purview but he rejected any accusation of wrongdoing and said he assumed the purchases were in compliance with procurement guidelines.

One day after filing a more than $700 million lawsuit against building contractor BK International for failing to complete construction of the Yarrowkabra Secondary School, Attorney General Anil Nandlall SC yesterday brought a similar suit against another contractor—this time for more than $400 million against Courtney Benn Contracting Services Limited (CBCSL) for what he says is its failure to complete construction work on another secondary school—the St.

Justice Simone Morris-Ramlall yesterday at the High Court in Berbice, found Hillary Edwards, of Sisters Village, East Bank Berbice, guilty of the murder of Leonard Archibald. 

Renowned civil engineer Philip Anderson Desmond Allsopp has died following a stroke on Tuesday night.

While it is unclear how Stabroek Block partner, Hess, came to be the marketer for Guyana’s fourth and last lift of oil for 2020, government yesterday said that it was sold via “a spot sale” by the company and that it had not yet made a final decision on who would be the next one-year marketer of its oil share.

A Corentyne mechanic died yesterday morning after he was involved in an accident along the Number 23 Public Road, West Coast Berbice. 

DNA samples were taken from individuals who were detained over the murder of West Coast Berbice (WCB) teenager Haresh Singh and were submitted to the Guyana Forensic Science Laboratory (GFSL) for testing.

Guyana’s COVID-19 cases yesterday surpassed 7,000 as 65 new ones were recorded.

Health Minister Dr Frank Anthony yesterday voiced dismay at the poor diet consumed by Guyanese and he called on the reconstituted presidential commission on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) to focus special attention on cervical, breast and prostate cancer.

A Corentyne man and a teenager yesterday pleaded guilty to manslaughter for the murder of a Tain Settlement security guard who was killed during a robbery in March, 2018 at Rose Hall Town, Corentyne.