Guyana News

A man on trial for hitting another man in the head with a hammer is now awaiting his sentence after a jury convicted him late yesterday afternoon on a charge of felonious wounding.

A total of 10 companies are in the running to execute infrastructural development works at Anna Catherina, Cornelia Ida, and Edinburgh, on the West Coast of Demerara for the Central Housing & Planning Authority (CH&PA).

Three men were today charged with the murder of Joel and Isaiah Henry, the two cousins who were found murdered at Cotton Tree Backdam, West Coast Berbice last September.

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) today reported that the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has begun a probe of ExxonMobil after an employee alleged that the oil company overvalued one of its key assets in the Permian Basin.

Commonwealth Secretary-General,  Patricia Scotland, QC yesterday said she was  “deeply concerned” by the promulgation of a decree by Venezuela that it has sovereignty over the area adjacent to Guyana’s Essequibo coast, and other recent statements by that country regarding its border controversy with Guyana.  

Months after teenage cousins Isaiah and Joel Henry were brutally murdered in West Coast Berbice (WCB), the police have made a breakthrough following the arrests of three suspects including two brothers, who will be charged with the crime today.

In keeping with its mandate to ensure that consumers are not sold substandard imported items, the Product Monitoring Department of the Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) yesterday destroyed 4,800 imported light switches.

President Irfaan Ali  yesterday announced that residents of Region 10 will soon benefit from the construction of 1000 homes.

By Readawne Henery A young woman burned to death yesterday morning after a fire of unknown origin engulfed her Little Diamond, East Bank Demerara home, where she was trapped in her room.

Following an assessment of the COVID-19 situation in Moraikobai, Region Five, by regional and government officials yesterday, a 6 pm to 6 am curfew was imposed on the community which currently has 33 confirmed active COVID-19 cases.

Guyana’s infection rate continues on its upward trend as forty-nine new COVID-19 cases were recorded on Thursday after 455 persons were tested recently.

Guyana’s COVID-19 Emergency Measures were on Wednesday amended to allow for limited indoor dining at eating establishments.

An autopsy done on the body of Roger Samuel, the inmate who was found dead on Sunday at the Lusignan Prison has ruled his death as a result of gastrointestinal haemorrhaging.

The Trump administration in its waning days took another swipe at China and its biggest firms yesterday including ExxonMobil’s Guyana partner, CNOOC for alleged misdeeds in the South China Sea.

A Berbice farmer has been sentenced to two years imprisonment after pleading guilty to having 1.04 kg of cannabis.

Former General Manager of the National Communications Network (NCN) Enrico Woolford has filed a lawsuit against the state-owned media entity which he says owes him in excess of $7M gratuity payment over the last three years.

Limited public awareness campaigns on COVID-19 have been done in Moraikobai, in Region Five since the start of the pandemic and the sudden increase of COVID-19 cases in the isolated community is a result of residents’ skepticism about the virus’s presence in the village as majority of them who tested positive are asymptomatic.

A porter, who according to the police was involved in three armed robberies, was yesterday taken before a Linden Magistrate to answer to the charges.

A young motorcyclist is now hospitalised after he collided with a pick-up truck in an accident at Goed Fortuin Public Road, West Bank Demerara on Wednesday.

A Bourda Market vendor was robbed by four bandits in an early morning attack yesterday.