Guyana News

Remigrant Peter Baptiste was ready to give up on his dream of developing a logging business, but President Irfaan Ali renewed his hope by assuring him that he will obtain a lease for a piece of land he had been waiting on for years.

As its enforcement around the city continues, the Covid-19 Task Force’s enforcement team last evening swooped down on the Church Street Sleepin Casino and bar and other establishments in the Alberttown/Queenstown area.

General Secretary of the People’s National Congress Reform, Amna Ally has been hospitalised at the Georgetown Public Hospital after falling ill during an outreach to the Essequibo Coast yesterday.

Former Region Six Councillor Gobin Harbhajan says Water Users Associations (WUAs) which were set up to manage the secondary drainage and irrigation systems in their villages are duplicating functions of other bodies and should be dissolved.

The Guyana Bar Association yesterday expressed sadness at the passing on Saturday of attorney, Llewellyn John SC.

Brian Jenkins, the executive director of a United States-based charity organization, Chosen 300 Ministry Inc.

­President Irfaan Ali on Thursday announced plans to develop an online portal to enable young people who have specific training needs to register their interests, according to a release from the Office of the President.

Since its reopening two months ago, Lake Mainstay Resort is still recovering from the hard knocks of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Twenty companies on Tuesday presented bids for various infrastructural development works at Great Diamond on the East Bank of Demerara.

Newly admitted attorney-at-law Jamal Duff, who hopes to someday work with the Environmental Protection Agency in the area of Environmental Law, had his petition successfully presented to Acting Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire on Wednesday.

Fifty-seven new COVID-19 cases were reported today by the Ministry of Health.

While he supports gas from Exxon’s wells being brought onshore for domestic use, former Director of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Dr Vincent Adams says that a rigid Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) must be undertaken and he called on the public to “actively participate” when it is initiated.

The Liberty and Justice Party (LJP) has said it is awaiting a response from the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) on replacing the designated candidate for its seat on the Region Eight Regional Democratic Council (RDC),  which is expected to pave the way for the body to be finally sworn in after months  of delay.

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the National Assembly is currently in the process of identifying new commissioners for the Public Procurement Commission (PPC).

Senior Counsel Clifton Mortimer Llewellyn John, who had a legal career spanning over 50 years and had been one of the campaigners for Guyana’s independence, passed away yesterday morning.

Fed-up of waiting for official word from the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) regarding halted gold mining operations in Campbelltown, Region Eight, the Village Council has written to the body and informed that all mining activities will be restarted with or without official approval.

APNU+AFC parliamentarian Amanza Walton-Desir has moved to the National Assembly to get answers from Foreign Minister Hugh Todd on the government’s recent hiring of United States (US) lobbying firm Cormac Group, including about the criteria used for its selection and whether there will be an overlap between its activities and the work of the country’s foreign service personnel in Washington D.C.

A single father of one, who tested positive for COVID-19 two days after developing symptoms, has said he only recognised the seriousness of the disease only after contracting it.

Forty-six additional cases of COVID-19 were confirmed yesterday by the Ministry of Health (MoH).

With 17 passes at last year’s Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations, Ajay Kissoon has earned his title as the Chase Academy valedictorian.