Guyana News

On Friday, the Department of Education – Georgetown in collaboration with the Central Ministry distributed care packages to students in the Albouystown, Sophia, Back Circle, Rasville and Wortmanville communities.

A motorcyclist is currently hospitalised for a fractured skull and internal bleeding after he collided with a stray horse on Saturday night.

Basmattie Singh, the newly appointed Chairman of the Neighbourhood Democratic Council of Mahaica, has assured that works will be undertaken to remedy the current problems at the Mahaica Market.

The Guyana Telephone and Tele-graph Company (GTT) recently  donated 1,000 reusable masks to the Mayor and Town Council of  Lethem and an additional 500 to Nappi Village, to assist the township’s ongoing COVID-19 relief  efforts. 

Plans are being made for a wharf at Salem, Parika by a company called Global Commercial Import and Export according to a notice to the public placed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

CHATTOGRAM, Bangladesh,  CMC – Debutant Kyle Mayers, the hero of the historic first Test win over Bangladesh today, says he is yet to wrap his mind around the accomplishment.

Attorney General Anil Nandlall has lodged a claim in the High Court seeking to overturn the controversial sale of river frontage to BK Marine which he said should have been valued at $5b but was acquired for a fraction of that figure.

CHATTOGRAM, Bangladesh,  CMC – Left-hander Kyle Mayers became only the second West Indies batsman to hit a double hundred on debut as an under-strength West Indies pulled off the highest ever successful run chase on the Asian continent and the fifth highest in Test history, to stun Bangladesh by three wickets in the opening Test here today.

Over the past four months, billions of dollars in government contracts have been awarded and to date none of the details have been made public, with even some companies that submitted bids being left in the dark about the final decisions, in breach of the procurement laws.

“Lady Nayera” and “Sea Wolf,” the two fishing vessels which were detained by Venezuela in Guyanese waters, returned to port yesterday manned by 12 grateful seaman.

An online portal for the publishing of all awards of government contracts is currently being set up by the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB), as complaints continue over the secrecy of awards.

Guyanese students will soon be able to access online tertiary programmes from six universities when the Ministry of Education (MoE) launches the National Open Learning Institute at the end of this month.

A row in a shop at Albouystown left a 54-year-old man dead yesterday when he was shot in the face by a stray bullet.

Vishnu Panday, the point person for the government’s resuscitation plan for the Skeldon sugar estate, says he resigned as he was unable to work with GuySuCo’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Sasenarine Singh and that they share opposing views on the way forward.

Three brothers are presently in custody over the fatal stabbing of a 20-year-old man outside his Belle West, West Bank Demerara (WBD) home on Friday night.

The skeletal remains found at Wisroc, Linden, just over a week ago are suspected to be those of a pensioner who went missing last November and his family is now hopeful that DNA tests will provide closure.

Bus sheds recently constructed at Belle West, Canal Number Two, West Bank Demerara, have come in for scrutiny from residents who say they seem unlikely to provide the necessary shelter from the elements and have also questioned the cost to build them.

A rebuilt bridge at Charlestown, which was broken last September after a container truck reversed onto it, was yesterday reopened for public use. 

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has been providing support for the hundreds of Venezuelans migrants camped out at several indigenous communities in Region One.

Guyana has recorded 52 more COVID-19 cases, according to the Ministry of Health.