Guyana News

As government forges ahead with its plan to revive the sugar estates across the country, $2 billion has is to be allocated to the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) this year to undertake critical capital works, Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh announced yesterday when he presented the proposed 2021 budget to the National Assembly.

Government is proposing to spend a total of $22.2 billion this year on public safety and security, Finance Minister Dr.

The government has budgeted approximately 13 per cent of its proposed $383.1 billion budget to the health sector, with special allocations for the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines and to add resources to address mental health issues.

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday said that all adult migrants living in Guyana will be vaccinated for COVID-19 in order for herd immunity to be achieved.

The Government Analyst-Food and Drug Department (GA-FDD) on Friday announced plans to take action against street food vendors who fail to comply with basic food hygiene requirements.

A recent study conducted in four of Guyana’s most populated regions has found that limited mental health support and the lack of tester-counsellors and social workers in Region Six as major gaps in providing HIV services during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Speaker of the National Assembly Manzoor Nadir has rejected a claim by Opposition Leader Joseph Harmon that he had directed members of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) to bar opposition parliamentarians from entering the grounds of the Arthur Chung Conference Centre on Thursday.

ExxonMobil yesterday confirmed that the third stage flash gas compressor that malfunctioned recently and other key parts from the offshore Liza Destiny Floating Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) oil platform have arrived in Germany and are being disassembled for inspection and assessment. 

Alwin Joseph and Babuni Harihar, the two persons whose bodies were recovered after an ill-fated bid to return to Guyana from Suriname via the backtrack route on Mon-day evening, died from both asphyxia and drown-ing, pathologist Dr.

A security guard was killed on Thursday night in an accident along Rupert Craig Highway in the vicinity of the University of Guyana (UG) Access Road, where she and a policeman collided.

A Police Sergeant has been placed under close arrest after he allegedly shot his partner in the neck during an argument at her Onderneeming West Coast Berbice home on Thursday night Injured is Shonetta James, a Special Constable.

A woman has pleaded guilty to attempting to extort $10 million from her boyfriend by threatening to tell the police that he raped her.

Rawle Bernard, who is accused of murdering a man at a barbecue on the West Coast of Berbice in 2017, was yesterday found not guilty of murder but guilty of manslaughter, for which he was sentenced to 11 years in prison.

A city Magistrate on Thursday ruled that the two counts of misconduct in public office laid against Deputy Chief Election Officer (DCEO) Roxanne Myers are to remain indictable.

Attorney General Anil Nandlall has defended the government’s failure to circulate the proposed budgets for constitutional agencies last year, while blaming the constitutional crisis created by the former APNU+AFC administration for forcing emergency actions to preserve the effective functioning of the state.

Two days after being detained by the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU), two men were yesterday separately charged with trafficking cocaine.

Corentyne butcher Asif Hamid, who was sentenced to 15 years last month after admitting to the 2015 killing of a man he had strangled and buried in a shallow grave, is appealing the sentence which he says is too severe.

Rickardo Maniram, called ‘Rocky,’ was yesterday acquitted in the rape a 16-year-old girl who prosecutors say he had also impregnated.

The police have arrested a suspect in the murder of Kevin Smith, who was stabbed to death during an attack at his Sophia residence on Monday.

The son of Dulmattie Boodlall, the woman who was struck down by a by a Guyana Police Force minibus at Nandy Park in January, plans to await the outcome of the trial of the lawman who was driving at the time before deciding on further legal action.