Guyana News

Noting the 87,875 tonnes of sugar produced for the year up to December 13, 2020, the union GAWU says it underlines the enormity of the task facing GuySuCo in its bid to turn around the industry.

It’s been more than four months since former Director of Sports Christopher Jones was subjected to a police investigation into the alleged larceny of state assets and the probe is still to be concluded.

Sixteen new COVID-19 cases were reported yesterday by the Ministry of Health.

Police are still investigating the disappearance of Police Constable Quincy Lewis went missing six months ago.

The Guyana Police Force today said it is investigating the murder of Paul Anthony Smith c/d Blacka, age 32 years, a clothes vendor of Lot 31 Bent Street Werk-en-Rust Georgetown, which  occurred at Commerce Street, Georgetown yesterday at about 6.30 pm.

Months have passed and with patience beginning to run thin for the families of West Coast Berbice (WCB) teenagers Joel and Isaiah Henry and Haresh Singh, who were brutally murdered in September, they are hoping that the New Year will bring long-awaited justice.

Principals of alleged Ponzi scheme, Accelerated Capital Firm Inc (ACFI) Yuri Garcia-Dominguez and Ateeka Ishmael have since embarked on a process of putting their trading account back into profitability and once this is completed, repayment is expected to commence early this year.

Police are continuing to investigate the killing of Soesdyke businessman, Terrence Dickie, during a home invasion in November.

In a review of the year that was, Attorney General Anil Nandlall SC today severely criticised GECOM over its part in the five-month crisis before the declaration of a final result.

The Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) says it has commenced legal action against three individuals who it said had separately committed offences capable of resulting in racial or ethnic violence or hatred among the Guyanese people.

She made headlines in June 2020 for being the oldest person in Guyana to survive COVID-19, and now seven months later Zorie De Mattos is celebrating another milestone – she is 106 today.

The natural gas-to-shore facility which the Irfaan Ali-led PPP/C government hopes to deliver by 2023 as a spinoff from oil extraction will land at Wales, West Bank Demerara, government yesterday announced.

President Irfaan Ali yesterday afternoon announced a one-off cash grant of $25,000 to workers in  the entire Public Sector, including those who are currently employed at GuySuCo and the Finance Ministry has begun processing the payment..

As it laid out its record of compliance, El Dorado Trading yesterday announced that its projected declaration of gold for this year would be at last 250,000 ounces.

Cuban national Joel Rodriguez was yesterday charged and remanded to prison for the murders of his girlfriend Tara Krishnaran and her 11-year-old daughter, who were found at the Princes Street, Lodge home they all shared.

A Guyanese youth was fatally stabbed in Suriname on Tuesday evening after trying to intervene during a clash between two groups of Guyanese men.

The annual promotion of ranks within the Guyana Police Force (GPF) was put on hold yesterday after Acting Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire granted an order blocking the ascent of several senior members within the force to the rank of Assistant Commissioner of Police.

A salesman was yesterday granted bail in the sum of $300,000 after he was charged with manslaughter over the death of David Barclay, who succumbed after being dragged by a car on D’Urban Street, Georgetown, last Sunday.

A Guyanese man convicted of  insurance killings in the US thirteen years ago died on December 27 from COVID-19 complications.

The Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand, on Wednesday announced that the deadline for the school uniform and supplies voucher programme has been extended until January.