Guyana News

A frustrated mother and the police are currently searchng for a 13-year-old girl, who is believed to have run away from her Corentyne home since last Tuesday. 

Two prisoners died today at the Lusignan Prison and others were injured after guards fired shots to prevent a breakout.

Mohamed-Aslim Zafis, a Guyanese man was fatally stabbed outside a northwest Toronto mosque last Saturday, according to the Canadian Press.

The severe economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic on CARICOM countries was one of the issues raised yesterday by Secretary-General Irwin LaRocque with  visiting US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo.

President Irfaan Ali believes that the maritime shiprider agreement signed yesterday with the United States and which goes into effect on Monday will not put this country at risk of Venezuelan aggression or negatively impact its border controversy case currently at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

As Guyana and the United States yesterday signed an agreement to bolster private sector investment in infrastructure,  visiting Secretary of State Michael Pompeo steered clear of pronouncements  on this country’s controversial 2016 Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) with ExxonMobil, saying simply that his government will support investment opportunities here for Americans.

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday defended his government’s support for the private sector in this year’s national budget, calling it part of its vision for economic development.  

Saying the emergency budget falls short of several key objectives, Leader of the Opposition Joseph Harmon yesterday announced that the APNU+AFC cannot offer its support for the passage of the estimates.

Four men were yesterday remanded to prison after being charged with the murder of businessman Mohamed Haniff, who succumbed in hospital a week ago after he was brutalised during a home invasion at Bath, on the West Coast of Berbice. 

The Guyana Police Force yesterday announced that dozens of ranks found nothing of “evidential” value for the investigation into the murders of teenaged cousins Isaiah and Joel Henry after hours of combing the backlands of No. 

Two of the three foreign nationals who were held on Sunday at 9 Miles Airstrip, Issano, Middle Mazaruni River, where they claimed they crash landed, were yesterday charged with entering the country illegally.

While acknowledging missteps by his government, former Public Infrastructure Minister David Patterson on Thursday urged the new administration to commit and act to ensure safe and environmentally-sound operations in the oil and gas sector.

Opposition parliamentarian Dr Karen Cummings on Wednesday stated that the former APNU+AFC coalition government managed the COVID-19 pandemic in a timely manner and left the new health minister with “a good pitch and wicket to bat” in the public health sector.

The Ministry of Health yesterday confirmed the deaths of two persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), taking the country’s death toll to 64.

Minister of Public Works Juan Edghill yesterday said the government is “aggressively” working to recommence commercial flight operations at Guyana’s two international airports in the shortest possible time, while assuring that measures in place to do so safely would be continuously evaluated as public health remains paramount.

Describing the Ministry of Legal Affairs as being “dormant” over the past five years, Attorney General (AG) Anil Nandlall yesterday told the National Assembly that a clear legislative agenda is now in place as he promised less wastage in spending and the delivery of judicial reforms under his stewardship. 

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) yesterday announced that it has received authorisation to commence underwater repairs to it submarine fiber-optic cable, which it says was damaged a few weeks ago in what is suspected to be a case of sabotage.

Three men armed with cutlasses yesterday attacked a family of three during a failed robbery attempt at their Nonpareil, East Coast Demerara home.

The Ministry of Health (MOH) this evening said  that as of 17:00hrs today, two other persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

The Chinese Embassy here today rejected statements it said were made by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during his two-day visit to Guyana.