Guyana News

An agreement has been reached between the Demerara Harbour Bridge Company and Deonarine Sookram, the owner of the tug and barge, Rediston and Surtrans, that crashed into the harbour bridge last month.

The Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) says that a figure published in yesterday’s edition of Stabroek News in the article headlined `Financial Intelligence Unit had urged ‘high level’ probe in 2019 into gold trading -in light of concerns over Venezuelan ore, exchange rate pressure’ was not correct as there had been a subsequent  amendment.

A post-mortem examination conducted on Dulmattie Boodlall, the woman who was struck down by a Guyana Police Force minibus at Nandy Park, East Bank Demerara, has established her cause of death as multiple injuries.

A West Coast Demerara taxi driver was carjacked at gunpoint on Tuesday night and robbed of his valuables by two unidentified men who pretended to be passengers.

Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) officers yesterday afternoon at Corentyne, Berbice seized fifteen parcels of cannabis amounting to more than eighty pounds.

One COVID-19 death was recorded yesterday along with 29 new cases of the virus.

Health Minister, Dr Frank Anthony says that he is confident that the Diamond Hospital which is being converted into a Smart Hospital will be handed over by the end of the month.

The Ministry of Health yesterday received  personal protective equipment (PPE) valued $10 million from the Guyana Logistics and Support Services Incorporated (GLASS) to aid the country’s Covid fight, according to the Department of Public Information (DPI).

The Ministry of Health’s  Vector Control Services is starting its fogging exercise in Demerara-Mahaica (Region Four) today, on the East Coast Demerara (ECD), according to the Department of Public Information (DPI).

(Reuters) – Exxon Mobil Corp, under increasing pressure from investors and climate change activists, reported for the first time the emissions that result when customers use its products such as gasoline and jet fuel.

Evaluation of the Expressions of Interest (EoI) by companies to build the new Demerara Harbour Bridge continues, Minister of Public Works Juan Edghill says and it is not yet clear when there will be a shortlist.

A total of ten persons are currently patients at the Liliendaal Centre for Infectious Disease and Control even as minor works continue at the facility.

The Ministry of Agriculture is to dispatch two machines to Hope and Unity, East Coast Demerara today to undertake critical drainage works, the Department of Public Information (DPI) said.Minister

The police are investigating the death of an unidentified man who was found yesterday in a decomposed state in an abandoned building at Kara Kara, MacKenzie, Linden.

The Civil Defence Commission (CDC) which has been tasked with assessing the areas affected by recent flooding and high tides and the distribution of supplies to these areas, has commenced its operations.

Region Six Chairman, David Armogan, yesterday recommended that a complaints book be placed at every NDC.

Police are investigating the death of a two-year-old toddler of Lower Kaituma, North West District, who collapsed and died on Tuesday midday while playing.

A Canefield, East Canje Berbice woman was today placed on $680,000 bail after she was charged with seventeen counts of obtaining by false pretense following reports to the police over an alleged bogus seaman’s training course.  

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is currently providing the Guyana Police Force  (GPF) with “technical assistance” in relation to the investigations into the brutal murders of West Coast Berbice  (WCB) teenagers Isaiah and Joel Henry as well as Haresh Singh.

Amid concerns that Venezuelan gold was filtering into the local market in 2019 and the Guyana dollar was depreciating substantially as a result, the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) had recommended that a high level team be established to do a comprehensive review of the trading of the precious metal.