Guyana News

The Ministry of Health yesterday said that two more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

A forty-seven-year-old taxi driver died yesterday morning when he drove into a parked lorry along the Soesdyke/Linden Highway.

For breaching regulations, the National COVID-19 Task Force (NCTF) yesterday issued warning letters and ordered a number of business entities closed as part of its promised stepped up enforcement.

The Director of the United States-based charitable organization Chosen 300 fears he may have a prolonged stay here in Guyana after testing positive for COVID-19 although he has explained to the authorities that he had tested positive last year and was treated.

The Ministry of Public Works will today be discussing penalties against contractor BK Inter-national after it was yesterday discovered that only 15% of sea defence work at Plantation Andrews in Region Two has been completed even though 70% of the  $124M contract was paid out.

The Matthews Ridge Airstrip and associated taxiway have been reopened to normal air transport operations into the region following remedial emergency repairs carried out by the Ministry of Public Works on Saturday January 9, 2021.

Residents of Block “V” Herstelling, East Bank Demerara are once again calling on the authorities to intervene and provide proper roadways for the community.

A local oil and gas association that had been founded in a blaze of publicity in October 2016 is no longer functioning.

Minister of Housing and Water, Collin Croal, on Tuesday said that the recent land distribution exercise was intended to commence the reduction of the backlog of applications noting that the persons that were issued with house lots were required to have had applications in the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) database.

Eight persons including a twenty-three-year-old labourer were on Saturday midday arrested by police following a raid at Goed Fortuin, West Bank Demerara.

The Ministry of Health today said that two more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

Police ranks from Berbice under the command of two officers of the Narcotics Branch yesterday between 5 am and 6.30 pm, conducted a narcotics eradication exercise at De Veldt Savannah, Upper Berbice River where they destroyed an estimated 101 million dollars in suspected cannabis.

A 44-year-old man of Lot 2606 Parfait Harmonie who was admitted to the Lusignan Prison on Friday was found dead in his bed today.

President Irfaan Ali has rejected the most recent declaration by Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro which once again falsely claims Essequibo as part of his country’s territory.

A simple soil turning ceremony was yesterday held for the construction of a $327 million asphaltic concrete road at Onverwagt, West Coast Berbice, which Minister of Agriculture Zulfikar Mustapha said is one of six farm-to-market roads to be built this year.

A Massy Stores Guyana manager died after a collision on Friday night along the Yarrowkabra Public Road, Soesdyke-Linden Highway. 

Shortly after finding out that her teenage son’s kidneys had failed, Nadie Budwah learned that he would need a transplant in order to survive.

Majeed Hussain, a People’s Progressive Party (PPP) Central Committee member, died yesterday morning and he was hailed for both his leadership and the role he played in the fight for democracy during last year’s elections crisis.

A dead body of a pensioner was yesterday found floating in a trench at Hampton Court, Essequibo Coast.

The Ministry of Housing and Water through the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) has invited bids for housing projects for regions located on the coastland.