Guyana News

While dining establishments have developed creative settings to attract customers for Valentine’s Day celebrations, gift shops are still facing the brunt of the coronavirus pandemic’s impact on businesses.

The Law Reform Commission (Amendment) Bill tabled by Attorney General Anil Nandlall SC was passed in the National Assembly yesterday, without challenge from the main parliamentary APNU+AFC Opposition which was absent from the debate.

Police in Berbice have discovered the belongings of Sherida Hussain, the woman who is still missing in the Number 63 Beach tragedy.

Family members of Sherwin Fileen, a man who was shot dead by the police after he allegedly attacked ranks during an attempt to arrest him, staged a protest on Wednesday outside of the Sparendaam Police Station.

The lockdown of the Caribbean Examinations Council’s headquarters in St Michael, Barbados, due to the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in the delay in announcing the top performers at its CAPE and CSEC examinations.

A vendor was granted bail after he denied that he robbed a woman of her gold chain while she was shopping at Stabroek Market. 

A Mahaicony resident is feared dead after he was hit by a wave on Monday while attending to a hole in a boat at Three Miles, offshore Belladrum, West Coast Berbice.

The Guyana Marine Conservation Society (GMCS), with support from the German NGO ARA, and through partnerships with the University of Florida, Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens, the Rupununi Wildlife Research Unit and the Region 1 RDC, has embarked on  research to assess the current state of medium and large mammals at the Barima-Mora Passage.

Now that he has received his first dose of the Oxford AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, Director of Medical and Professional Services, Dr Fawcett Jeffrey, says that he feels at ease knowing that when he goes to work from now on that he would have some measure of protection and the consequences would not be deadly if he gets exposed to the virus.

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

A donation of 3,000 doses of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccines from Barbados has kick-started the first phase of COVID-19 vaccinations in Guyana with frontline workers set to receive their first shots today.

The Liza-1 Environmental Permit does not include the 14 billion cubic feet flaring allowance that government says ExxonMobil has used to  justify its emissions but makes it clear to the company that there should not be routine flaring and that there should be provision for spares and plant-turn down protocols if there are breakdowns on its production platform (FPSO).

The worst fears of two Berbice families were con-firmed yesterday morning after the bodies of their relatives, who had gone missing on Monday evening after being stranded on a sand bank at Number 63 Beach, were discovered.

The PPP/C government believes that a “nonsensical” inclusion for evaluation of tender documents set by the former APNU+AFC administration as part of the criteria for bidders wanting to market Guyana’s oil, led to 28 of 29 companies being recently deemed non-responsive.

After months of delay, persons who invested with an alleged Ponzi scheme, Accelerated Capital Firm Inc (ACFI), have begun to receive their monies, Attorney Dexter Todd yesterday said.

The Chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP)  has advised that the accused in the fatal shooting of teenager Rockey Sawh be charged with manslaughter.

As he lamented the diplomatic blunder in this country agreeing to have a Taiwan Investment Office set up here, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Tuesday said that the decision taken by the Foreign Affairs Ministry was unknown to the PPP/C Cabinet.

Former Guyana Defence Force Chief of Staff,  Gary Best was yesterday freed of the Driving under the Influence (DUI) charge brought against him in relation to the death of cyclist Jude Bentley.

A pedestrian who succumbed to his injuries at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) last Saturday night, minutes after he was struck down by a motorcycle along the Rupert Craig Highway in the vicinity of the Russian Embassy, was yesterday identified as a long time Adult Basic Education (ABE) tutor at School of the Nations.

Government has disclosed that a seeming mix-up has stalled the completion of the audit of the pre-contract costs for ExxonMobil,and its partners in the Stabroek Block as the United Kingdom firm hired to undertake the audit submitted its final report without ever providing a draft and they have been written to in order to correct this.