Guyana News

Police say a Brazilian national who died at a Region Seven mining campsite on Wednesday complained about pains and swelling in his abdomen before his death.

After battling a COVID-19 outbreak in October and November of last year, Toshao of Kwebanna, Paul Pierre, on Tuesday said that the community is basically “back to normal” as residents are operating as though the virus has been completely eradicated.

The U.S. Embassy today said that as part of the United States’ continued commitment to Guyana and its security, Navy Admiral Craig Faller, commander of U.S.

The Maritime Administration Department (MARAD) today said that the US Coast Guard (USCG) vessel  Stone will be in Guyana’s waters on Saturday, January 9 on an exercise.

A recommendation by the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) in 2019 for a high-level probe of gold trading in light of concerns about commingling with Venezuelan ore appears to have been ignored by the then APNU+AFC government.

The police are seeking the assistance of the public in locating the alleged shooter in the murder of clothes vendor Paul Anthony Smith on New Year’s Day.

Kenford Downer, the man who allegedly set his house on fire with his wife and two young children inside, was yesterday remanded after being charged with three counts of murder.

Gunmen last night opened fire on a property at Coldingen, East Coast Demerara which was said to have once been occupied by alleged Ponzi scheme accused, Yuri Garcia Dominguez.

The charge against Sheneza Jafarally, the University of Guyana (UG) student who is accused of making a bomb threat earlier this year that disrupted classes and operations at the Turkeyen Campus, was yesterday dismissed by Magistrate Ruschelle Liverpool.

An agreement has been reached between the Demerara Harbour Bridge Company and Deonarine Sookram, the owner of the tug and barge, Rediston and Surtrans, that crashed into the harbour bridge last month.

The Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) says that a figure published in yesterday’s edition of Stabroek News in the article headlined `Financial Intelligence Unit had urged ‘high level’ probe in 2019 into gold trading -in light of concerns over Venezuelan ore, exchange rate pressure’ was not correct as there had been a subsequent  amendment.

A post-mortem examination conducted on Dulmattie Boodlall, the woman who was struck down by a Guyana Police Force minibus at Nandy Park, East Bank Demerara, has established her cause of death as multiple injuries.

A West Coast Demerara taxi driver was carjacked at gunpoint on Tuesday night and robbed of his valuables by two unidentified men who pretended to be passengers.

Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) officers yesterday afternoon at Corentyne, Berbice seized fifteen parcels of cannabis amounting to more than eighty pounds.

One COVID-19 death was recorded yesterday along with 29 new cases of the virus.

Health Minister, Dr Frank Anthony says that he is confident that the Diamond Hospital which is being converted into a Smart Hospital will be handed over by the end of the month.

The Ministry of Health yesterday received  personal protective equipment (PPE) valued $10 million from the Guyana Logistics and Support Services Incorporated (GLASS) to aid the country’s Covid fight, according to the Department of Public Information (DPI).

The Ministry of Health’s  Vector Control Services is starting its fogging exercise in Demerara-Mahaica (Region Four) today, on the East Coast Demerara (ECD), according to the Department of Public Information (DPI).

(Reuters) – Exxon Mobil Corp, under increasing pressure from investors and climate change activists, reported for the first time the emissions that result when customers use its products such as gasoline and jet fuel.

Evaluation of the Expressions of Interest (EoI) by companies to build the new Demerara Harbour Bridge continues, Minister of Public Works Juan Edghill says and it is not yet clear when there will be a shortlist.