Guyana News

The APNU+AFC government spent $1.2 trillion between 2015 and 2019 while gathering revenues totaling $992 billion, according to Minister in the Office of the President with responsibility for finance, Dr Ashni Singh.

Outgoing Canadian High Commissioner Lilian Chatterjee yesterday said that Guyana lacks a skilled and sizeable labour force to benefit from the “explosive” oil-linked growth that is coming and she urged the country not to resist foreign investment but use its judgement on who to trust.

Minister of Agriculture Zulfikar Mustapha yesterday announced that two National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) contracts have been put on hold after it was discovered that the sums were significantly increased without approval being granted.

The breathalyser device used to test former Guyana Defence Force Chief of Staff Gary Best after he fatally struck cyclist Jude Bentley had not been calibrated in over one year and this was among reasons for city magistrate Rhondel Weever’s decision to find that there was not enough evidence to support the causing death by dangerous driving charge against the former army head.

In keeping with a commitment by his party to inclusive governance, President Irfaan Ali yesterday announced that he has invited all former presidents to a meeting on December 15th to discuss national development.

High Court judge Navindra Singh on Tuesday threw out a $50 million lawsuit filed by Magistrate Alex Moore against Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Shalimar Ali-Hack SC, whom he had accused of defaming him.

Yogeshwar Kumar, the 34-year-old man who police say stabbed 16-year-old Sanesha Lall to death at her Richmond Housing Scheme home last month and then tried to end his own life, was yesterday charged with murder.

A total of 20 companies, a majority of which are from China, have tendered expressions of interest (EoIs) for the design and build of the new Demerara Harbour Bridge.

Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Health Malcolm Watkins yesterday said the two week bonus announced by President Irfaan Ali is the “risk allowance” that has been promised to health care workers, while the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) has maintained that the position was contrary to an informal agreement that had been reached.

Joshua Meredith, who shot and killed Charlestown youth Gregory Garraway during a robbery in 2016, is now awaiting sentencing after admitting to the killing.

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has advised the Guyana Police Force to institute a charge against a suspect in the murder of a Linden vendor Dwane Williams, the Guyana Police Force announced yesterday.

Staff members of the West Demerara Regional Hospital (WDRH) who had been in contact with the six-day-old baby that died while being infected with COVID-19 were tested for the virus yesterday after it was revealed that the parents of the infant tested negative.

The Doobay Medical and Research Centre yesterday donated one million disposable face masks and a quantity of face shields to the Ministry of Health.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) yesterday reported that 73 more cases of COVID-19 were confirmed on Thursday from the results of 230 tests that have been done.

After weeks without recording a positive case of COVID-19, Region Nine currently has at least nine active infections, which Regional Chairman Bryan Allicock says is a result of persons continuing to traverse between Guyana and Brazil.

Although travel between Suriname and Guyana is expected to resume on December 12th, the two governments are still in discussions on health protocols.

A pump attendant of Richmond Village, Essequibo Coast, was found dead in a trench at the front of his home yesterday.

In an attempt to examine the barriers to ethnic harmony in multi-ethnic Guyana, the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) is hosting a virtual National Conversation on improving ethnic relations on December 14 and 15.

A proposed amendment to the Law Reform Commission Act, piloted by Attorney General Anil Nandlall, will fundamentally alter the manner in which the members of the Commission are selected if passed.

The Texila American University (TAU) is hoping to provide a service for both patients on the East Bank Demerara and students at the university with the development of a hospital on its Providence campus.