Guyana News

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Selectors today handed a shock recall to fast bowler Fidel Edwards at age 39 and after nearly 10 years out of international cricket, in a 14-man squad for the three-match Twenty20 International series against Sri Lanka starting here next Wednesday.

Minister of Health, Dr. Frank Anthony says Guyana will soon receive 80,000 doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine from the Government of India.

Fifteen-year-old Aditya Mohabir recently had kidney transplant surgery at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).

Leader of the Opposition, Joseph Harmon and a team today met with the Police Commissioner Nigel Hoppie on a range of matters. 

The U.S. Embassy and the U.S State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics & Law Enforcement, through the Justice Education Society (JES), has donated a number of items valued at GY$798,000 to the Guyana Police Force and the Judiciary.

CARICOM is “deeply concerned” and dissatisfied with the way that the Community has been squeezed out of access to COVID-19 vaccines.

A woman was yesterday sentenced to four years in jail and fined $798,750 after admitting to swallowing 73 cocaine pellets as well as hiding cocaine wrapped in condoms in her vagina.

Identical twin sisters Amesha Thuesday Grant and Amela Latahsa Thuesday see a divine hand in their giving birth on the same day.

Stating that allegations of fraud have to be specifically pleaded and proven, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) yesterday overturned a decision of the Guyana Court of Appeal which had found that a woman who bought land from another was involved in fraud.

Minister of Local Government and Regional Development, Nigel Dharamlall yesterday assured the National Assembly that he is planning for Local Government Elections (LGE) to be held later this year.

The Ministry of Health yesterday reported that two more persons who had tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

With a jury unable to arrive at verdicts in the matter against them for the murder of Ruby fisherman Shereffudeen Nazamudeen, former Region Three AFC councillor Mandy Sukhdeo, her father, Surendra Sukhdeo, a Good Hope/ Hydronie Neighbourhood Democratic Council APNU councillor and their neighbour Rean Ghani will all now have to face retrials.

Collin Venture, who was charged with the rape of a 13-year-old girl, was committed to stand trial on Wednesday.

Health Minister, Dr Frank Anthony yesterday announced that the ministry is advising against taking the COVID-19 vaccine and filarial pills on the same day.

Caribbean states are set to benefit from a US$3.5 billion regional recovery programme that will also include significant technological advancement for future development.

The public service took centre stage during the budget debate on Wednesday, when Minister of the Public Service Sonia Parag and her predecessor, opposition Member of Parliament (MP) Tabitha Sarabo-Halley made their contributions.

Another local company has added its name to the list of ISO-certified companies in Guyana.

Following the reported rape of a 10-year-old North West District girl, a member of her family has been taken into custody by police.

A child died in the wee hours of yesterday morning. According to a police report, the Essequibo coast child was discovered to be dead at about midnight by her sister who went to check on her.

Bids from 27 companies were yesterday opened at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) for the construction of the Four Lane Highway from Eccles on the East Bank Demerara to Mandela Avenue.