Guyana News

As part of government’s plan to revive the forest sector, the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) yesterday announced the issuance of 2005 Log Tracking tags to the Ituni Small Loggers Association.

The body of a twenty-one-year-old labourer was last Tuesday morning pulled from the Morasi Backdam canal on the East Bank Essequibo with a chop wound to his neck.

The police yesterday said that on Saturday, Abel Vernon, 70, of Plantain Walk, West Bank Demerara was attacked  by two males of Crane, West Coast Demerara and robbed.

Mohanram Narine, 50, a labourer of Independence Street, La Grange, WBD,  was wounded in an attack on Saturday, the police said.

The police are investigating a break and enter and larceny on Saturday at the home of Erita Roberts, 28, a Special Constable of Westminster, La Parfait Harmonie, West Bank Demerara.

Following a review by an independent panel of experts the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) has decided to extend the time period during which students can query the grade awarded following the 2020 Examinations.

The Ministry of Health (MOH) today said that two more persons have died of COVID-19.

The Police say they are investigating the murder of Seon Landon aka Gaza, age 27, unemployed and of D’Andrade Street, Newtown, Kitty, Georgetown which occurred yesterday at 6.35 pm  at ‘C’ Field Sophia, allegedly by a 30-year-old male of ‘D’ Field Sophia and another male.

Prime Minister Mark Phillips yesterday offered to provide shelter to squatters at Success, on the East Coast of Demerara, who have refused to vacate the lands there.

Former parliamentarian Charrandass Persaud, who was responsible for the crucial vote that led to the passage of the December 21st, 2018 no-confidence motion against the former APNU+AFC administration, has returned to Guyana.

The family of a woman who was reported last month as one of the country’s COVID-19 fatalities has said neither her immediate care givers nor other relatives were asked to take a test for the virus after she died in the Georgetown Public Hospital’s COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit (ICU).

Following the World Health Organization (WHO) publication of research from a clinical trial showing that remdesivir barely reduces the mortality rate of COVID-19 patients, member of the Georgetown Public Hospital’s Task Force for COVID-19 Dr Mahendra Carpen has said that there are no immediately plans to discontinue using it to treat patients here as it seems to be reducing the amount of time those with symptoms remain hospitalised.

An addendum to the Liza-1 Production Licence, which was never made public, was signed last year by former President David Granger and paved the way for environmental upgrades for the Liza-2 project and subsequent major improvements to the recently approved Payara licence.

Aszim Shivgobin, one of the three suspects accused in the murder of Canadian citizen Nicholas Ramkissoon Jaipaul, is currently hospitalised after he was attacked at the Lusignan Prison on Friday night.

Prior to the discovery of the massive tunnel mining operation in the New River Basin, Toshao of Masakenari Paul Chekema said that residents frequently heard an airplane flying over the community and this was what prompted him to contact the Guyana Defence Force (GDF).

The widow of Ryan Khayum has accepted a $4 million+ compensation package from the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) following the boat accident involving a coast guard vessel that resulted in his death in April.

The Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) has said it lost $1.4 billion in revenues over the last six months, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which has caused a 95% drop in passenger traffic.

The Oncology Clinic of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) on Friday received a quantity of face masks and turbans for distribution to women and girls undergoing chemotherapy.

As Guyana’s Hindu community observes the period of Sharad Navratri, which began yesterday, the Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha is advising all mandirs and devotees to adhere strictly to the country’s guidelines on preventing the spread of COVID-19.