Guyana News

Guyana has recorded 37 new COVID-19 cases. This was revealed in the Ministry of Health’s COVID-19 dashboard yesterday which showed that 37 new cases were recorded which increased the total number of cases in the country to 3,329.

APNU+AFC coalition Member of Parliament Annette Ferguson has called for the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) administration to act with compassion in its treatment of the squatters at Success, whom she says should be regularised.

The Office of the President yesterday announced the appointment of eight new Permanent Secretaries (PS’s) who will assume administrative control of Ministries such as Health, Labour and Home Affairs.

Five weeks after he was shot during a scuffle with robbers, businessman Lennox Robinson remains a patient in the Inten-sive Care Unit (ICU) of the Georgetown Public Hospital.

Stating that his client had been on remand for 8 and 1/2 years awaiting trial on a charge of murder which should not have been instituted in the first place, attorney Maxwell Mc Kay yesterday afternoon succeeded in requesting a sentence of time-served instead.

Quick action by top officials of the Ministry of Home Affairs led to the transfer of a corrupt police traffic rank out of the Department.

The Office of the President today announced the appointment of new Permanent Secretaries within several Government Ministries. The

The Guyana Defence Force says it remains committed to the welfare of all its members, including those who have suffered injuries while in the line of duty.

A planned strike yesterday by nurses attached to the Georgetown Public Hospi-tal (GPH) was put ‘on hold’ after the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) agreed to negotiate the demands of the workers with the Government over the next two weeks.

Sasenarine Singh, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of GuySuCo yesterday said that two engineers are expected from India in January to advise on the best way forward in relation to the reopening of the Skeldon Sugar Factory. 

Former People’s National Congress Leader Robert Corbin is currently hospitalised with COVID-19 and his party is pleading with the public for strict adherence to the COVID measures while urging for greater enforcement of the regulations.

A 41-year-old businesswoman who was suffering from multiple organ failure is among the three latest novel coronavirus (COVID-19) fatalities that were reported by the Ministry of Health (MoH) in a statement yesterday.

Representatives of famed Shark Tank billionaire and US investor Mark Cuban’s Radical Investments LLC, yesterday arrived in Guyana aboard a luxury jet for a two-day visit, sources say.

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) yesterday said that Deputy Chief Election Officer (DCEO) Roxanne Myers is being investigated for the offence of “conspiracy to defraud” after she surrendered to the police in the company of her lawyers on Tuesday.

On the second day of the resumption of jury trials at the High Court in George-town, the case of Odel Roberts who is accused of the 2015 murder of Sophia businessman Shawn Anys was empanelled before Justice Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.

The five-member team from the CARICOM Regional Security System (RSS) which arrived here more than a week ago to assist local police with the investigation into the murders of teenaged cousins Isiah and Joel Henry as well as Haresh Singh de-parted Guyana on Tuesday.

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of GuySuCo Sasenarine Singh yesterday announced that on Monday, the Government of Guyana released $3 billion to the sugar corporation and is adamant that the entity can be turned around.

Minister of Education Priya Manickchand has said the grades from School Based Assessments (SBAs) were not submitted by some public schools to the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC), which finalised results based on the performance it saw at the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate exams.

The Ministry of Labour yesterday said in a press release that reports reaching it have  stated that there has been a fatal accident involving a miner.

US Ambassador Sarah-Ann Lynch has committed the US Government to working with the Government of Guyana in a number of key areas including  security, legislative reforms and strengthening the country’s institutional democracy to avoid a recurrence of the 2nd March 2020 elections debacle.