Guyana News

Attorney General Anil Nandlall today wrote the Head of the GPSU, Patrick Yarde warning that if illegal strike action by frontline health workers continues, the government will have no alternative but to consider various options including criminal charges and termination of contracts of employment.

The Supreme Court of Judicature is moving ahead with plans for the restart of criminal trials which have been on hold since the Coronavirus pandemic took hold in March of this year.

CXC Chairman Sir Hilary Beckles has convened a high-level team to review a spate of grievances that has arisen in the wake of the release of results for this year’s CSEC and CAPE exams.

The Guyana Power & Light (GPL) Inc today said it had terminated the services of an employee of the meter reading department for the alleged defrauding of a customer at Parfait Harmonie, West Demerara.

President Irfaan Ali today used the 151st birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi to commit to strengthening Guyana’s democratic institutions.

The Petroleum Production Licence granted to Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL) for its Payara project allows for flaring for up to 60 days upon the startup of the operations while allowing it free rein to undertake and submit its own research studies on the effects of the release of reservoir water.

A second high-level forensic team, this time from  Argentina, may soon arrive here to assist in the investigation of the murders of teenaged cousins Isaiah and Joel Henry as well as Haresh Singh, which occurred at West Coast Berbice (WCB) almost a month ago.

American Airlines will resume scheduled commercial flights to Guyana on November 4, an airline representative announced yesterday.

By Readawne Henery Following a confrontation which saw police fire pellets and teargas, hundreds of persons who have been squatting at Success, Vryheid’s Lust and Chateau Margot, on the East Coast of Demerara, yesterday met with officials from the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) in order to legally access house lots.

Over 17,000 varieties of sugarcanes belonging to the Guyana Sugar Cor-poration’s (GuySuCo) Agriculture Research Centre have been destroyed over the past three weeks by persons who are now occupying the lands at Chateau Margot.

Businessman Peter Ramsaroop is the new investment czar. His appointment was confirmed yesterday.

Saying that the PPP/C government’s management of the COVID-19 pandemic is costing lives, the opposition coalition APNU+AFC is maintaining that its rigid measures and enforcement kept the number of cases and deaths low while it was in government.

The police were on Wednesday granted an extension to further detain the suspect who was arrested earlier this week over the 2015 murder of taxi driver, Colin Clarke.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) yesterday announced that three Region Four men  who were infected with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) have died while 35 additional cases have been confirmed.

O’Neil Jordan, the construction worker who allegedly killed his younger brother after a drinking session one week ago at Den Amstel, West Coast Demerara (WCD) was on Tuesday charged with manslaughter and placed on $400,000 bail.

As it continues to move towards reopening the economy, government has relaxed the national curfew under the updated coronavirus disease (COVID-19) measures and is also now requiring that children over the age of eight wear masks when in public or travelling.

Farmers in Region Three have been told by Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha that major works cannot be carried out at this time due to lack of adequate funding.

Two labourers were shot on Tuesday by an unidentified person or persons at Aurora Village, Essequibo Coast.

More than a year after its executive council mandated industrial action in the Health Sector, the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) has delivered yet another ultimatum to the Minister of Health.

The Ministry of Health says that as of 6 pm today, one other person who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has died.