A total of 153,376 households have received a $25,000 cash grant from the Ministry of Human Services and Social Protection as part of the government’s COVID-19 relief effort while 16,365 secondary households have received a “pink slip” as a government promissory note of a second visit.
The Office of the Auditor General has recommended that the police be engaged to do a comprehensive investigation into the controversial D’Urban Park stadium and a report submitted for audit.
The mother of Andre Thompson, the eight-year-old who was found hanging from a piece of wood attached to a pig pen at Linden a week ago, believes that he was killed.
As part of the investigation of the discovery of 11.5 tonnes of cocaine in a container of scrap metal that was shipped to Belgium more than a month ago, ranks of the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) are sorting over 50,000 images which were retrieved after they were deleted from a Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) scanner database.
Eighty-nine percent of village councils failed to submit reports to the Ministry of the Presidency on how they spent $203.9m in grants for the year 2019.
Minister of Home Affairs Robeson Benn yesterday announced that the government has indicated its willingness to share the autopsy reports for West Coast Berbice (WCB) teenagers Joel and Isaiah Henry and Haresh Singh with Director of the Argentine Team of Forensic Anthropology (EAAF) Dr.
The National Assembly yesterday approved $4.15 billion in spending from the Contingency Fund to cover expenses incurred during the period June to December 2019.
Esherdai Jailall, the mother of cancer patient Shaniece Nanhoe, yesterday said that the outpouring of support from persons who learnt of her daughter’s condition has been comforting.
The Hydrometeorological Service (Hydromet) and Environmental Management Consultants (EMC) have begun a meteorology and water quality baseline monitoring programme for the Lower Essequibo Watershed.
Guyana is awaiting advice from the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) as it relates to the new COVID-19 strain detected in the United Kingdom (UK) and flight restrictions.
Leader of the People’s National Congress David Granger handed over the Government of Guyana’s $25,000 ‘Covid-19 relief and support household grant’ to five villagers from the Mocha-Arcadia Neighbourhood, East Bank Demerara.
At a price of close to US$49.50 per barrel of oil, Guyana has received its fourth one million barrels of oil scheduled for this year and will get its first lift for 2021 in February next year, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday confirmed.
Police this morning announced the arrest of a Cuban national wanted in connection with the gruesome murders of a Princes Street, Lodge mother and her 11-year-old daughter.
A 29-year-old father of two died yesterday morning after jumping onto a moving car and being dragged into several parked vehicles on D’Urban Street, Lodge.
A fire of unknown origin during the wee hours of yesterday destroyed a wooden house in Jackson Creek, Upper Corentyne resulting in the death of the owner.