Guyana News

The 2018 and 2019 Annual General Meetings of the GAWU Credit Union have approved measures which will see members benefiting from nearly $5m in their accounts.

The body of a Windsor Forest youth who went missing on Sunday while setting fishing hooks washed ashore yesterday morning.       

A fire, suspected to be electrical in origin, destroyed a Buxton, East Coast Demerara (ECD) house yesterday afternoon leaving a couple counting millions of dollars in losses.

The Mayor and City Council (M&CC) yesterday passed a motion to replace acting Town Clerk Candace Nelson, who councillors accused of not understanding her role.

Autopsies performed yesterday on the charred remains of Carolina Kennedy and her two daughters, who perished in a fire which was allegedly set to their Bartica home on Saturday night revealed that their cause of death is “undetermined”.

Magistrate Alisha George yesterday granted the prosecution a month-long adjournment to seek advice from the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) on how to proceed in the Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the murder charge against the five accused in the killing of Better Hope moneychanger Aaron Latchman and his daughter, Arian Latchman, following the recent escape of one of the men.

A man was on Thursday charged with attempted murder after the wounding of another man.

The Buxton/Friendship Youth Incubator was launched on Saturday at the Tipperary Hall in Buxton, East Coast Demerara.

Steffon Williams, the suspect in the robbery of a schoolboy, was remanded to prison last Thursday on a separate charge. 

The High Court will on December 17, 2020 issue a ruling on the the application filed by attorney Timothy Jonas who is challenging last year’s appointment by former President David Granger of four senior counsel.

Guyana yesterday recorded its 156th COVID-19 fatality even as more cases of the virus were reported.

Days after a ministerial outreach to Region 10 where residents pleaded for urgent improvements, the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) has commenced works to have a number of drains and canals cleared, a release from the Ministry of Agriculture said yesterday.

The Delegation of the European Union (EU) to Guyana today clarified that it released $2b in budgetary support to Guyana on Thursday and not $19.8b as had been said in an EU statement that day.

The Ministry of Health today said that one more person who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has died.

The charred remains of a Bartica mother and her two daughters were discovered under the rubble of their dwelling after it was allegedly set on fire by her reputed husband on Saturday night.

Frontline workers who are providing an essential service or key public services during the COVID-19 pandemic can now apply for the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security Childcare Subsidy Programme.

The family of Zaman Mohamed who was shot dead in the compound of Sueria Manufacturing at Eccles on Friday says he was not a bandit and left home that evening to go fishing.

The body of a woman was yesterday afternoon pulled from the Essequibo River by persons living along the Parika Sea Dam, East Bank Essequibo.

A Corriverton cyclist died while receiving medical attention at the Skeldon Public Hospital after he was involved in an accident along the Springlands Public Road around 11.30 am yesterday.

After nine years, the Government of Guyana has warned China Harbour and Engineering Company Limited (CHEC) that it is mulling legal action against it since it has failed to deliver on works for the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri expansion project.