Guyana News

Schlumberger Oil Field Services Guyana yesterday donated over $1.8M to the Dorothy Bailey Health Centre to assist in the painting of the building.

Speaker of the National Assembly Manzoor Nadir has set December 28 for the first meeting of all Standing Committees of the House.

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

Former President David Granger has suggested that if President Irfaan Ali is truly interested in “accelerating Guyana’s development” he will engage with the Opposition Leader as required by the Constitution rather than hold lunch meetings with his predecessors.

After years of controversy encompassing three administrations, the PPP/C government and CHEC have sealed an agreement on the troubled expansion of the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri  which will see the Chinese contractor doing US$9m in additional works at its own cost.

Construction worker Terrence Alvin Jones was yesterday sentenced to 43 and a half years in jail for the murder of amateur footballer Paul Daniels in February of 2017.

Cordel Grimes, a labourer who had claimed that his friend was fatally shot when they both came under gunfire at Aurora Village, Essequibo Coast at the end of September, was on Monday charged with the murder.

The Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) met virtually with the Chief Executive Officer and team from Eastern Airlines yesterday to address the disruption in its service which resulted in extensive delays in flights over the weekend and the carrier has pledged improvements.

Senior Minister in the Office of the President with responsibility for Finance, Dr Ashni Singh says that no fixed date has yet been set for the presentation of Budget 2021 and that a date reported by Stabroek News yesterday was simply an ‘indicative’ one on the Budget circular disseminated around two weeks ago.    “It was brought to my attention that at least one news outlet has reported that the date for the 2021 Budget has been set-that the Budget Date is February 5, 2021.

A cyclist is now dead after he collided with a car along Stewartville Public Road on Monday night.

An invitation for tenders from the Ministry of Home Affairs yesterday saw a $58.3m bid for the supply of vehicles for the Guyana Police Force.

The new National Insurance Scheme (NIS) Board held its first meeting on Monday and Finance Minister Dr.

Eighteen years after his death, former President Desmond Hoyte has been hailed as a “Champion of Change” by the current leader of his party, former President David Granger.

Guyana yesterday recorded a new COVID-19 fatality along with a number of new cases of which more than half were recorded in Region Ten.

A Corentyne labourer will be spending the next two Christmases in jail after admitting to break and enter and larceny.

The Auditor General’s report will be laid in the House today during the 14th sitting of the National Assembly while the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) still hasn’t been convened.

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) has opened two new stores – at Parika, East Bank Essequibo and Grove, East Bank Demerara – and Minister of Industry and Commerce Oneidge Walrond has hailed the move as an indicator of confidence in the economy.

The Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) expects that rehabilitation work on the severed 69kV submarine cable link between the Vreed-en-Hoop and Kingston substations will be completed by today, Bharat Harjohn, Director of Power Generation and Distribution at GPL, has said.

The Imperial House will on Christmas Eve night be airing a live reading of Scrooge – A Christmas Carol, an adaptation of the 1843 Charles Dickens classic, on their Facebook page.

Minister of Home Affairs Robeson Benn distributed 30 helmets to motorists and cyclists last Friday as part of a campaign to promote road safety.