Guyana News

Yogeshwar Kumar, the 34-year-old man who police say stabbed 16-year-old Sanesha Lall to death at her Richmond Housing Scheme home last month and then tried to end his own life, was yesterday charged with murder.

A total of 20 companies, a majority of which are from China, have tendered expressions of interest (EoIs) for the design and build of the new Demerara Harbour Bridge.

Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Health Malcolm Watkins yesterday said the two week bonus announced by President Irfaan Ali is the “risk allowance” that has been promised to health care workers, while the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) has maintained that the position was contrary to an informal agreement that had been reached.

Joshua Meredith, who shot and killed Charlestown youth Gregory Garraway during a robbery in 2016, is now awaiting sentencing after admitting to the killing.

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has advised the Guyana Police Force to institute a charge against a suspect in the murder of a Linden vendor Dwane Williams, the Guyana Police Force announced yesterday.

Staff members of the West Demerara Regional Hospital (WDRH) who had been in contact with the six-day-old baby that died while being infected with COVID-19 were tested for the virus yesterday after it was revealed that the parents of the infant tested negative.

The Doobay Medical and Research Centre yesterday donated one million disposable face masks and a quantity of face shields to the Ministry of Health.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) yesterday reported that 73 more cases of COVID-19 were confirmed on Thursday from the results of 230 tests that have been done.

After weeks without recording a positive case of COVID-19, Region Nine currently has at least nine active infections, which Regional Chairman Bryan Allicock says is a result of persons continuing to traverse between Guyana and Brazil.

Although travel between Suriname and Guyana is expected to resume on December 12th, the two governments are still in discussions on health protocols.

A pump attendant of Richmond Village, Essequibo Coast, was found dead in a trench at the front of his home yesterday.

In an attempt to examine the barriers to ethnic harmony in multi-ethnic Guyana, the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) is hosting a virtual National Conversation on improving ethnic relations on December 14 and 15.

A proposed amendment to the Law Reform Commission Act, piloted by Attorney General Anil Nandlall, will fundamentally alter the manner in which the members of the Commission are selected if passed.

The Texila American University (TAU) is hoping to provide a service for both patients on the East Bank Demerara and students at the university with the development of a hospital on its Providence campus.

In an effort to reduce the morning rush hour traffic congestion on the Demerara Harbour Bridge, as well as ease the build-up of traffic on the East and West banks of Demerara, a decision has been taken to restrict the west-bound traffic on the bridge from 6.15 am to 7 am In a notice published on its Facebook page yesterday morning, the DHBC announced that double lane traffic proceeding east on the Demerara Harbour Bridge will begin from 6.15am until  7am.

Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited (RBL) has gotten approval for a US$20 million line of credit from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) under its Trade Finance Facilitation Programme (TFFP).

In keeping with promises made to be inclusive, President Irfaan Ali this afternoon announced that he has invited all former presidents to a meeting on December 15th. 

Outgoing Canadian High Commissioner Lilian Chatterjee today said that Guyana lacks a skilled and sizeable labour force to benefit from the “explosive” oil-linked growth that is coming and she urged the country not to resist foreign investment but use its judgement on who to trust.

With Guyana on track to be the second or third largest oil producer in the Western Hemisphere, US Ambassador Sarah-Ann Lynch says the country has to advance from being a raw material so as to avoid the dreaded resource curse and she also stressed that contracts have to be honoured and that the government is accountable to all of the people.

Seventy- nine new COVID-19 cases were yesterday recorded and the majority were reported in Region Four.