Guyana News

The Ministry of Health yesterday disclosed that 13 new cases of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) have been recorded in the most recent test results.

The Ministry of Health is exploring the possibility of conducting point-of-care testing in Guyana for COVID-19 as a means of achieving a faster turn-around time for results, which could be available in as little as 15 minutes.

President Irfaan Ali yesterday assured the families of Isaiah and Joel Henry, the teenaged cousins who were murdered last weekend in West Coast Berbice (WCB), that “no stones will be left unturned” during the investigation of the crime.

Welcoming the restoration of calm on the Upper East Coast and West Bank of Berbice, People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) Chairperson Volda Lawrence yesterday maintained the call for those behind the gruesome murders of four young men in recent days to be urgently brought to justice, while issuing an appeal for national unity In a statement, Lawrence also assured that she was resolute in going the full way until justice is served.

Haresh Singh, the youth who was fatally beaten in what is suspected to be a reprisal killing after the murders of cousins Isaiah and Joel Henry, died as a result of brain haemorrhaging and blunt trauma to the head, compounded by compression injuries to his neck, an autopsy confirmed yesterday.

President Irfaan Ali yesterday said the government will be employing “the full force of the laws” to end the promotion of racial hate on social media.

A total of $51.7 billion, representing 15% of the 2020 emergency budget, will be allocated to the health sector this year.

The government has earmarked $52 billion for the public education sector in its emergency budget.

The Civil Defence Com-mission (CDC) on Monday made a timely donation of COVID-19 relief supplies to the residents of the remote indigenous community of Masakenari, in Region Nine.

An Experiment, Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice businessman was chopped about his body in a suspected robbery last evening.

A Land of Canaan man died on Monday after ingesting a pesticide following what police suspect to have been an attempted murder-suicide.

The body of a 29-year-old North West District woman was found floating in a creek by family members on Wednesday, almost half a day after she went missing.

Three persons held in connection with the recent death of mason Imran Abdul, who died as a result of a hit and run along the La Grange Public Road, West Bank Demerara, have been released on station bail.

Suspected sabotage to a fibre-optic cable belonging to the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) impacted over 25,000 customers on the West Demerara – but within a 24-hour period, mobile and internet services were restored.

President Irfaan Ali today said he has directed the Attorney General to ensure that the full force of the law is trained at purveyors of hate speech on social media.

President Irfaan Ali today met with the families of the three youths who were recently killed on the West Coast Berbice.

Seventeen-year-old Haresh Singh died of brain haemorrhaging and blunt trauma to the head compounded by compression injuries to the neck, according to a post-mortem report today.

Welcoming the restoration of calm on the Upper East Coast and West Bank of Berbice, PNCR Chair Volda Lawrence today urged the government and the Guyana Police Force to act with urgency to bring to justice those behind the gruesome murders of four young men in recent days.

As the police probe into the gruesome murders of teenaged cousins Isaiah and Joel Henry continues, four of the seven persons who were initially detained for questioning were yesterday released on station bail and a number of new arrests were made over the past 24 hours.

A young mother of one was murdered on Wednesday night in an attack that was allegedly carried out by her former partner, who police say fatally stabbed her in a jealous rage.