Guyana News

The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) says it is extremely concerned about recent developments in the banking sector where sworn affidavits submitted by clients to banks have been refused.

Dubbing the 2021 budget as a template for development under the PPP/C led administration, Minister within the Ministry of Public Works, Deodat Indar in his budget presentation said the people will see transformational development from this budget.

The Guyana Water Inc says that the community of Kaikan, Region 7, will soon move from having 20 percent to 100 percent access to potable water.

A twenty-four-year-old man is listed as critical at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) after he was stabbed about his body by an eighteen-year-old following a misunderstanding.

The Ministry of Health yesterday reported that there were 35 new cases of COVID-19.

A Moblissa farmer is currently hospitalized after he was wounded on Friday night by unknown persons while he was under the influence of alcohol.

Former Speaker of the National Assembly Ralph Ramkarran has called on the current holder of the office, Manzoor Nadir to put to a stop to the vulgarity that has been in evidence among MPs during the ongoing budget debate.

Today, between 05:00 hours and 09:00 hours, the police say that ranks of Regional Division 4A conducted a cordon and search in the following areas; 1.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) has said contracts worth a total of almost $12 billion,  including some $2.1 billion of which was single-sourced, were awarded between September and December last year but the names of the awardees are still to be released, for which it claims the procurement board is responsible.

Hours after a stillbirth delivery, a 31-year-old Corentyne mother of three succumbed in the wee hours of yesterday morning, plunging her family into grief and prompting claims of negligence against staff of the New Amsterdam Public Hospital.

A 20-month-old infant was crushed to death by a truck driven by his father at their home at Mahaica, on the East Coast of Demerara.

Land Tenure Assessments (LTAs) conducted by the Amerindian Peoples Association (APA) over the last nine years have revealed that there is widespread land insecurity among Indigenous communities in Guyana.  

While finally confirming approval for Qatar Petroleum taking a stake in Total’s holdings in the offshore Orinduik and Kanuku blocks, Minister of Natural Resources Vickram Bharrat on Friday said that a total of 14 international companies now have working interests in this country’s eight offshore oil blocks.

Fifteen-year-old Aditya Mohabir is expected to be able to live a normal life again after a successful kidney transplant, which was made possible when his mother volunteered to be his donor.

In terminating the $413 million contract for the rehabilitation of the Leguan Ferry Stelling, Attorney General Anil Nandlall has informed contractor S.

The Region Ten Regional Democratic Council (RDC) has called on the Chief Executive Officer of the Linden Hospital Complex Rudolph Small to immediately resign over disparaging statements he reportedly made about the facility’s nurses.

Minister of Home Affairs Robeson Benn on Friday reported that there was a 6.9% decrease in serious crime last.

Federal police in neighbouring Brazil have arrested 26 Haitians and a Cuban who entered illegally crossed the border from Guyana.

After managing to elude law enforcers for almost five months, James Moore, the robbery convict who had escaped from the Lusignan Prison, was recaptured by the police yesterday morning.

The Chateau Margot, East Coast Demerara man who is accused of fatally stabbing his neighbor over a pack of cigarettes has surrendered to the police.