Guyana News

New restrictions, including a month-long travel ban, were yesterday announced for Region Seven in the latest COVID-19 Emergency Measures, which also extend the national curfew for December but will allow for travel to Suriname to resume through Moleson Creek.

Madho Beepat, the founder of Beepat and Sons, passed away last Friday after losing his battle with cancer.

A boat captain took his own life yesterday after reportedly wounding a Riverview, Ruimveldt woman, who rejected his demands for a relationship with her 14-year-old daughter.

Arguing that former president David Granger is a necessary party to the two election petitions filed by the APNU+AFC which he heads, senior counsel Douglas Mendes says that the late service of the requisite documents on Granger is fatal to both petitions and they must therefore be thrown out.

A Linden resident was yesterday sentenced to 15 years in prison for the rape of a then 14-year-old girl, whom he held against her will with the use of a weapon.

Police Commander of Region Six, Jairam Ramlakhan last evening said that six persons have been detained for questioning following a major robbery on Sunday evening at the home of Marcus Brian Bisram.

A youth who admitted to fatally stabbing a man at Leopold and Lombard streets in November, 2018, was yesterday sentenced to 14 years in jail.

US Judge Paul G. Gardephe last week ordered a pre-sentence probation report for Tower Suites co-owner Shervington ‘Big Head’ Lovell following his guilty plea to count seven of his drug trafficking indictment.

Les Charles Critchlow, who was due to be sentenced for killing his brother-in-law, Terrence Adams, yesterday changed his plea to not guilty.

Devon Anderson, the man who police say stabbed his mother to death at her Goed Intent home last week, was yesterday charged with murder.

A Corentyne sluice operator succumbed to injuries he sustained after he was reportedly struck along the Bramfield Public Road, East Coast Berbice while riding his bicycle to work. 

Meetings to elect chairpersons for the 14 standing committees of the 12th Parliament have still not been convened due to “scheduling conflicts”.

The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) is currently in discussion with engineers from the region and North America for assistance to repair the Demeraa River submarine power cable which was destroyed by a ship’s anchor on Friday.

The Government Analyst–Food and Drug Department (GA-FDD) is advising the public that only medication manufactured for sale in Guyana’s climate zone and packaged with English instructions should be imported, sold or consumed.

Travel between the Karasabai and Tiger Pond villages in the South Pakaraimas will become easier as plans are underway to rehabilitate the six-mile road, along with its culverts and bridges.

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) has opened a new store at Regent Street in what promises to be the first in a series of additional retail locations.

The police are currently investigating the attack on a Linden man who was ambushed and stabbed several times while heading home.

Thirty new COVID-19 cases were reported today in the Ministry of Health’s Dashboard.

Region Six Chairman, David Armogan today stated that over $100M will be spent on remedial works along the Black Bush Polder road by the Ministry of Public Works. 

The US$1M payment made to prominent PNCR member James Bond for leased NICIL  lands at Peters Hall, East Bank Demerara was never flagged by the city commercial bank that undertook the transaction, Bank of Guyana sources say.