Guyana News

By Therese Turner-Jones World Tourism Day, celebrated on Sept. 27, came at a sobering time for the Caribbean.

A team from  the RSS arrived here today for the probe of three murders on the West Coast Berbice that convulsed the region earlier this month.

A key programme to eliminate violence against women was launched by CARICOM last Tuesday.

The Police say they are investigating the murder of Kevin Baynes, 34, of Namrad Street, Ann’s Grove, East Coast Demerara which occurred on September 26, 2020, at Big Creek Backdam, North West District.

While government is forging ahead with plans for the reopening of three of four shuttered sugar estates, it cannot solely sustain the sector and is calling on private investors to partner with it.

Interested builders of the new bridge across the Demerara River have up to December 4th to submit expressions of interest (EOI) for a four-lane high-span structure that could be as high as the Marriott Hotel or higher and while likely to be pricey there is no word yet from the government on the projected cost of the facility.

To enhance the search and rescue capacity in Guyana, local aircraft owners are calling on government to make it mandatory that all aircraft be equipped with Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast (ADS-B) tracking systems.

Saturday’s detention by police of Chief Election Officer Keith Lowenfield and the prospect of a new criminal charge are intended to have Lowenfield classified as a  “tainted” witness in relation to any testimony he might give before an election petition.

Two more women were yesterday confirmed by the Ministry of Health (MoH) to have died from  COVID-19  bringing the total number of fatalities to 78.

A 22-year-old man died last night after the car he was driving crashed into a canter along the Lima Public Road, Essequibo Coast.

A fifty-two-year-old businessman is now a patient at a city hospital where he is nursing a gunshot wound to the neck following a shooting at his Roxanne Burnham Gardens residence.

‘Relief’ and ‘enthusiasm’ are words that can be used to describe the feelings of two of the forty-nine repatriated Guyanese who returned from Suriname on Monday after much anticipation.

The National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL) has issued a public warning over land in the vicinity of Eccles on the East Bank that persons are attempting to sell/sublease.

Ninety-two families of Gordon Table, a farming community in the Mahaicony Creek will soon have access to potable water.

An 85-year-old woman is currently a patient at the West Demerara Regional Hospital (WDRH) after she was struck down by a speeding car yesterday afternoon while attempting to cross the La Grange Public Road on the West Bank of Demerara.

President Irfaan Ali yesterday said that around 30% of those employed in the tourism sector have lost their jobs and another 36% had been furloughed or placed on unpaid leave as a result of the fallout from COVID-19. 

President Irfaan Ali today said that around 30% of those employed in the tourism sector have lost their jobs and another 36% had been furloughed or placed on unpaid leave as a result of the fallout from COVID-19.

Guyana’s COVID-19 fatality figure now stands at 78. The latest fatalities are a 55 -year-old female from Demerara-Mahaica (Region 4) who died while receiving care at the Ministry of Health medical facility.

While maintaining that his government is committed to improving the lives of all workers, President Irfaan Ali yesterday suggested that recent protests staged by frontline health care workers over demands for better wages and salaries and conditions were being instigated by persons seeking to exploit current circumstances.

The police are probing the death of a two-year-old child, who succumbed on Friday, almost one month after he allegedly consumed milk laced with a methamphetamine.