Guyana News

A porter was yesterday charged with the murder of security guard Bharrat Dass, who recently succumbed in hospital after he was found battered behind a city pharmacy.

Twenty-six-year-old Devon Chacon was yesterday released from prison after Justice Navindra Singh sentenced him to time served for the 2016 killing of father of two, Abdool Ameer Subrati whom he shot during a robbery.

The Ministry of Health yesterday revealed that the latest fatality was identified as a 42-year-old man from Region Four.

Teshawna Lall has  been appointed as the new General Manager of the New Guyana Marketing Corporation (GMC).

Senior Officers of the Ministry of Education yesterday donated blood at the National Blood Transfusion Service for a student of Santa Rosa Secondary who was diagnosed with Leukemia.

The trial of the young man accused of the 2016 murder of Mahaicony businesswoman Bibi Shairoon Nesha Ali is set to commence at 9 this morning before Justice Navindra Singh and a 12-member jury at the High Court in Georgetown.

With only a few cases recorded, the Regional Chairperson of Region Two, Vilma DaSilva, has stated that the COVID-19 situation in the region is under control.

Drainage was the key issue raised when Mocha farmers met yesterday with Minis-ter of Agriculture Zulfikar Mustapha.

KARACHI, Pakistan,  CMC – West Indian international Chadwick Walton played a supporting role to top Pakistan batsman Babar Azam to lead Karachi Kings to their first Pakistan Super League Twenty20 title with a five-wicket win over arch-rivals Lahore Qalandars in the final yesterday.

A mere five days before its November 15 deadline the Integrity Commission had received only around 50% of the 1,300 financial declarations which persons in public life are required to submit.

Residents of Somerset Court have lauded the Ministry of Local Government’s construction of the main road in their community, the Department of Public Information (DPI) said yesterday.

Rajkumar Parbhu, the pedal cyclist who was hit by a car along the Montrose Public Road on November 4th 2020, is now at home recuperating.

Caribbean governments including Guyana are being encouraged to invest in infrastructure as a means to stimulate the local economy post COVID-19.

The Ministries of Health and Amerindian Affairs along with the Civil Defence Commission are working with St.

A couple was arrested at an East La Penitence Georgetown home on Monday after an unlicensed .32 Taurus pistol with three matching rounds were found hidden in their oven.

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

Westmount Energy, the energy investing company focussed on the Guyana-Suriname Basin today said  that further to the announcement by Ratio Petroleum Energy, that the Tanager-1 well, offshore Guyana, has been reported as an oil discovery which is currently considered to be non-commercial as a stand-alone development.

Local efforts made to retrieve the scanned images of the container found with 11.5 tonnes of cocaine by Belgian authorities have so far proven futile, Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) head James Singh says.

The main parliamentary opposition, APNU+AFC is asking the National Assembly to direct the Government to procure and finance the assistance of expert and competent professionals who can close the investigation into the deaths of Joel Henry, Isaiah Henry and Haresh Singh.

With the announcement that a second vaccine has been found to be effective in preventing COVID-19, Health Minister Dr.