Guyana News

Clavor Paul, 20,  a miner from Region Nine,  died on Friday after the walls of a pit he was working in at St Elizabeth Backdam, Region Eight, caved in.

The economics teacher who in November was sentenced to three years in jail after being found guilty of indulging in sexual activity with a student is seeking to have his sentence appealed.

Almost two months after gold mining activities were halted in Campbelltown, Region Eight, residents are threatening to take matters into their own hands as they can no longer afford to sustain their families, according to now-suspended Toshao, Marbel Thomas.

Five persons are now patients at the New Amsterdam Hospital following an accident involving five vehicles yesterday morning at Sun Rise, West Coast Berbice.

A pedestrian is now hospitalised after he was struck by an intoxicated Ministry of Social Protection driver who was speeding along Plantain Walk Public Road, West Bank Demerara (WBD) on Monday night.

Work on the collapsed Tiger Creek Bridge in Region Eight continues to be delayed by persistent rain but the contractor has been helping vehicles to travel through the area via a bypass.

Two new COVID-19 deaths were yesterday recorded in Guyana, increasing the number of fatalities to 158.

President Irfaan Ali today announced that his Government will work on a special housing programme to enhance the lives of all members of the police force.

The Police say they are investigating a fatal accident which occurred last night at about 10.45 in the vicinity of the new Gafoor’s access road on Mc Doom Public Road, Georgetown, involving a motor car driven by a Guyana Defence Force rank, age 23, of Onderneeming, West Bank Demerara and two other occupants: Ameena Sooklall (now deceased), age 33 years of Providence, East Bank Demerara and Alston Edwards, age 26 years of Shopping Plaza, South Ruimveldt Gardens, Georgetown.

The embattled Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) is to build a five-storey multipurpose complex at Lot 41 High and Cowan streets.

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

President Irfaan Ali and three former PPP/C Presidents yesterday agreed that constitutional and electoral reforms should be people driven.

A Christian missionary couple from Hauraruni died last evening following a collision between their car and a lorry along the Linden/Soesdyke Highway.

-accomplice gets 24 years Rooplall Abrahim, who admitted to fatally chopping an elderly Bush Lot businessman and his common-law wife in 2016, has been sentenced to life in prison, while his accomplice, Madanpaul Gocoul, has been sentenced to 24 years for the crime.

Tenders were yesterday opened at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board for the completion of the Ministry of Health’s head office.

Rooplall Abrahim was recently sentenced to life imprisonment for the fiery murder of Anita Baichan in 2016, while his accomplice, Madanpaul Gocoul was yesterday sentenced to 19 years in prison by Justice Brassington Reynolds at the High Court in Berbice. 

Minister of Agriculture, Zulfikar Mustapha continues to maintain that the comprehensive investigation into the fisheries sector will provide answers to questions surrounding the issuance of two new trawler licences for seabob fishing operations and the recipients of the licences.

Rooplall Abrahim of West Coast Berbice was yesterday sentenced to 17 years in prison for the murder of an inmate, Neshan Jagmohan, while he was on remand on two murder charges.

Director of the Argentine Team of Forensic Anthropology (EAAF) Dr. Luis Fondebrider has requested a list of documents from the police in order to offer advice on solving the murders of West Coast Berbice (WCB) youths Isaiah and Joel Henry and Haresh Singh but so far the law enforcers have not committed to do this.

Parmanan Rambarran, the man who police say killed 50-year-old Christopher Findlay last Friday after an argument, was yesterday charged with murder.