Guyana News

The Guyana Prison Service (GPS) has received 437 complaints of mistreatment of prisoners in the various facilities across the country since August 20th, 2020.

A trial yesterday commenced in the High Court in Berbice after Munilall Sarjoo, pleaded not guilty to the murder of Levan Chanderpaul whose body was found buried in the Number 68 Village, Corentyne backdam in 2016.

The police are investigating an armed robbery committed on Wednesday in Kaneville, East Bank Demerara, on a construction worker and his companion, while they were walking home from a party.

The decomposed body of a Wakenaam woman was discovered in her home yesterday after her granddaughter had reported her disappearance to the police.

The police yesterday reported that a farmer who allegedly committed suicide was discovered with a semi-automatic pistol in his hand.

A murder suspect was yesterday arrested after the police conducted a raid at a Matthews Ridge home and found him hiding under a bed.

A portion of this year’s budgetary allocation to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation will see the expansion of Guyana’s diplomatic presence in Middle Eastern countries such as Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and possibly in Ghana, West Africa, subject Minister Hugh Todd yesterday said.

It has been more than a week since four prisoners escaped from the Mazaruni Prison and up to yesterday there was no sighting of the quartet.

A horse cart operator was yesterday fatally stabbed by a neighbour over a pack of cigarettes. 

The Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) today said that bids were opened for the modern four-lane Eccles to Mandela Highway Project.

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

(Reuters) – Exxon Mobil Corp’s global oil and gas reserves tumbled by a third last year as the COVID-19 pandemic slammed global oil prices and demand, the company said yesterday.

The Ministry of Health yesterday said that three more men who had tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

Less than a day after the police issued a wanted bulletin for Osafo Sereste Grundell, also known as ‘Safo’ or ‘Curlup’ who was wanted for questioning in relation to the murder of Dale Christopher, the man yesterday turned himself over to the police.

The body of the  Manager of ACME General Store, 54-year-old Sandra Dee Barker of La Parfaite Harmonie, West Bank Demerara, was found dead in her office by a colleague yesterday morning, two days after she was last seen alive.

Amesha Thuesday Grant and Amela Latahsa Thuesday – twin sisters – yesterday gave birth to their babies 13 minutes apart at the New Amsterdam Public Hospital creating history at the regional institution.

ExxonMobil yesterday said that the reassembly of the Liza Destiny oil platform’s flash gas compressor has been completed and is now being prepared for testing at the MAN Energy Solutions workshop in Germany.

A Black Bush Polder, Corentyne man was yesterday sentenced to nine years and two months in prison after he pleaded guilty to manslaughter at the High Court in Berbice last week.

The Minister of Health, Dr Frank Anthony yesterday announced that the Government Analyst-Food and Drug Department (GA-FDD) has granted emergency use approval of the Russian Sputnik and China’s Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccines in Guyana.

The burnt body of a man found on Monday near Huaxin Supermarket at Enmore, East Coast Demerara, has been identified as an Enmore pensioner, 72-year-old Mathura Etwaru.