Guyana News

Shortly after 8:30 last night, fire destroyed the 136 Regent Street Singh’s Store and a tent in the lot next door which formerly housed the Sachi building  which was ravaged by fire in February of this year.

The container which was suspected to have had 11.5 tonnes of cocaine amid scrap metal was scanned at a city port of exit but it appears that the images were altered or deleted, sources close to the investigation say.

Persons who invested with Accelerated Capital Firm Inc (ACFI) seeking big returns are now at risk of losing their money as the companies which piloted the trading of the funds have since terminated their contracts with the firm.

The Plaisance/Industry NDC issued a cease order on November 5th over a controversial construction at Area J, Industry, East Coast Demerara which residents had complained about.

The audit of ExxonMobil’s US$460 million pre-contract costs has been completed and the report was handed to the Department of Energy to be forwarded to the company for its response, Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) Commissioner-General Godfrey Statia yesterday said.

The Civil Defence Commission (CDC) yesterday  shared cleaning supplies to residents of Great Troolie Island, Essequibo Islands-West Demerara  after it was hit by spring tide flooding recently.

A mother got the shock of her life when she found her missing son on Wednesday in the morgue of the Georgetown Public Hospital.

Two busloads of Haitian nationals are currently in custody after a covert operation intercepted them on the Mabura-to-Lethem Trail on  Saturday and law enforcers are investigating a possible smuggling ring, police sources yesterday said.

Joanne Jardim, tourism pioneer and the developer of the Shanklands Resort on the Essequibo River has passed away, according to former Minister of Tourism, Cathy Hughes.

The Ministry of Health’s (MoH) dashboard yesterday recorded 30 new cases after 338 persons were tested.

Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Captain Texine Daw  was admitted to the bar before Justice Brassington Reynolds on Thursday.

President Irfaan Ali yesterday paid homage to the men and women who died in service to the Commonwealth during World Wars I and II.

The 290 students set to return to President’s College for classes from today will be housed in the school’s dormitories under strict guidelines to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

Labour and Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Officers are to be trained in foreign languages to ensure proper communication with all segments of the workforce. 

Dear Editor, There are myriad issues which have been revealed as sub-optimal in this 2020 CXC Exam Crisis: the 2020 CSEC and CAPE Results, the core output of CXC, which have disadvantaged hundreds of our nation’s children, and thousands regionally; deficiencies in CXC’s grading methodology and SBA moderation process; the use of questions previously in the public arena which represented the bulk of Paper 1; an over-ambitious revised exam structure which required thousands more SBAs to be moderated, which probably overwhelmed the technological and human resource capabilities of the ‘regional educational eco-system’ already challenged by the pandemic; the role of the likely  algorithm used to assign (some) grades. 

Sanitation worker Kevin Smith, age 29,  of Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara died this afternoon following an accident at the Infectious Diseases Hospital, Liliendaal, the police said in a statement.

President Irfaan Ali yesterday congratulated US President-elect Joe Biden on his victory at the November 3rd general elections.

A Caribbean joint-venture for a chemical storage facility has been shelved amid controversy over the disposal of state lands on the East Bank Demerara (EBD) and a near US$1 million payment to a well-known PNCR figure.

The PPP/C government will continue with the China-funded US$37.6 million National Broadband Expansion Project to be implemented by Chinese firm Huawei and Prime Minister Mark Phillips said that national security considerations will be taken into consideration.