Guyana News

The Ministry of Public Works today said that the current spring tide has exposed more of the Mahaicony sea defence to erosion after protective mangroves were swept away.

The Speaker of the National Assembly, Manzoor Nadir at the start of yesterday’s session of the budget debate announced that 14 employees of Parliament Office have tested positive for  COVID-19.

When United States Secretary of State Michael Pompeo arrives here today he will be signing a MOU for joint maritime patrols with Guyana to interdict drugs and the security threats posed to the region by Venezuela will also be on the agenda This is according to a US State Department official who provided a briefing yesterday in Washing-ton on the visit that also includes Suriname, Brazil and Colombia.

Four adults and one juvenile were yesterday charged with the murder of Prettipaul Hargobin who had opened fire with a shotgun at protesters in Bath, West Coast Berbice a week ago.

The Ministry of Health yesterday disclosed that two women from Region One who were infected with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) died while receiving treatment at a medical facility.

A  Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) will tomorrow morning be signed between the United States and Guyana that positions this country, with US help, to bolster private sector investment in infrastructure, Washington yesterday announced.

Investigators have recommended  criminal charges against four of the suspects who were arrested and questioned in relation to the murder of Bath Settlement businessman, Mohamed Haniff,  Crime  Chief Wendell Blanhum says.

Minister of Public Service Sonia Parag and her predecessor Tabitha Sarabo-Halley yesterday squared off over whether there had been discrimination in the ministry’s public scholarship programme with the former contending  that hinterland regions were particularly badly served.

On Tuesday the National Assembly was told that the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) is bankrupt even as the infrastructure for the delivery of potable water crumbles in several communities. 

Finding certain words published by the Kaieteur News (KN) against former Head of the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL), Winston Brassington, to be defamatory, the High Court yesterday awarded him damages to the tune of $18M and $220,000 in costs pertaining to five cases.

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) yesterday said that a bank account was opened at the beginning of this  month in order to facilitate the return of millions of dollars invested by persons in suspected Ponzi scheme, Accelerated Capital Firm (ACF) however there has been no progress.

A build-up of traffic occurred along the East Bank highway starting at the Prospect area yesterday, after a lumber-laden truck toppled sometime between the hours of 10:30 and 11:00 am, blocking both carriageways.

Three of the seven teams which set out to represent Guyana in the International Youth Robotics Competition held virtually in South Korea, have carted away medals with a mask distribution and sanitizing robot earning silver.

Prisoners housed at the Lusignan prison responded angrily yesterday morning over their safety, a day after two inmates tested positive for the Coronavirus  (COVID-19), Director of  Prisons Gladwin Samuels said.

A second attempt yesterday by the Opposition to seek information on the visit by US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo was denied by Speaker of the National Assembly Manzoor Nadir. 

The man, whose body was found on board one of the two aircraft which were discovered on Monday in Region Seven was yesterday identified as Brazilian national,  Alessandro Eduardo Petravieius,  49.

A number of workers attached to the Uitvlugt estate yesterday downed tools as they expressed their frustrations with the growing inefficient functioning of the factory.

A fisherman is now in a serious condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital, after he was stabbed in his abdomen by his brother on Tuesday night.

The Minister of Labour yesterday said  that the Ministry of Health has confirmed that one staff member from the Co-operatives Department of the Ministry of Labour has tested positive for the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

The Regional Health Officer (RHO) of the Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo, Region Nine, on Tuesday said that there are only six active cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in the region.