Guyana News

Chait Balkarran, the driver involved in Tuesday’s accident that claimed the life of Mahaicony pensioner, Deonarine Lalchand was yesterday granted bail in the sum of $450,000 after he was charged with several traffic related-offences including causing death by dangerous driving.

Quenita Walrond-Lewis is the new Director of the National Centre for Educational Resource Development (NCERD) and will begin in her new position on October 1.

Former Chief Education Officer Olato Sam will be embracing a new role at the Ministry of Education.

Four relatives of Haresh Singh were arrested twice as part of the investigation into the brutal murders of Joel and Isaiah Henry, after they would have disclosed to persons and eventually to investigators that they saw the two boys on the dam heading into the backdam.

The deadline for the submission of proposals to market Guyana’s oil has been extended to next Tuesday after the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) was forced to suspend its operations due to staff members testing positive for COVID-19.

Leroy Graham, the inmate who escaped from the Lusignan Prison during the early hours of Wednesday morning, has been recaptured.

It has been almost three weeks since teenaged cousins Isiah and Joel Henry were brutally murdered and while no charge has yet been laid, Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum said the investigation is ongoing.

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) today said that a joint patrol comprising ranks of the GDF and the Guyana Police Force came under fire yesterday from the Venezuelan shore during a routine joint patrol om the Cuyuni River.

The Ministry of Education – Guyana is registering vehemently with the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC), its dissatisfaction with the apparent poor grading of students at the 2020 CSEC and CAPE examinations.

President Irfaan Ali has vowed that there will be a revamped electoral machinery so that there is never a repeat of the long delays for elections results or blatant attempts to rig, experiences that he says he shudders to remember.

President Irfaan Ali yesterday called for unity when he attended a private viewing of the body of Haresh Singh at Persaud’s Funeral Home in New Amsterdam hours before he was taken home and then to the Number Three backdam where he was finally laid to rest. 

High Court criminal trials are set to recommence on October 6th when the final of the assizes for this year is also expected to be declared open.

Ninety-eight new cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) were confirmed by the Ministry of Health yesterday in addition to one new death.

As COVID-19 cases and deaths surge here, Eureka Medical Laboratories Inc (EML), is expected to commence novel coronavirus PCR testing by this weekend according to the Deputy Chief Medical Officer (DCMA) Dr Karen Gordon-Boyle.

Addressing the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly yesterday, President Irfaan Ali made a strong defence of multilateralism in addressing questions surrounding Guyana’s territorial integrity, climate change and the raging COVID-19 pandemic.

Attorney General Anil Nandlall has rejected claims from APNU+AFC MP Roysdale Forde that a Statement of Excess for monies spent since the dissolution of Parliament last year should have already been tabled in the National Assembly.

The US$5m COVID-19 loan application to the World Bank by the APNU+AFC government was not approved and had to be resubmitted by the PPP/C administration when it took office, sources say.

The Ministry of Human Services and Social Security yesterday said that old age pension payments for October 2020 will begin on Tuesday, September 29, 2020 at all post offices countrywide.

Autopsies performed on Winston Herbert and Earl Graham, the two inmates who were fatally wounded after they attempted to escape from the Lusignan Prison on Saturday revealed that they were both shot in the chest.

Five years after being sentenced to a combined 202 years for the gruesome murder of 16-year-old Queen’s College (QC) student Neesa Gopaul, her mother Bibi Sharima-Gopaul and her former lover Jarvis Small will on October 1st make their first appearance before the Court of Appeal.