Guyana News

Faced with a petition for her removal due to the disruption of mining activities, the toshao of Campbelltown, in Region Eight, has said the village council has acted on the guidance of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC), which found the operations unsafe.

Audreyanna Thomas, whose services as Communications Officer were recently terminated with immediate effect by the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo), has launched a programme to assist persons like her who have been let go from public sector agencies in recent months.

President Irfaan Ali yesterday recognised the achievements of Guyanese businessman Andrew Mendes, who was officially presented with the 2020 Anthony N Sabga Caribbean Award for Excellence in Entrepreneurship.

Following the recommendation of the independent review team, the Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) has created an online portal to expedite the handling of reviews and queries from students who wrote the 2020 July/August Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) and Caribbean Advance Proficiency Examinations (CAPE).

A Police Constable attached to the Fort Wellington Police Station died yesterday after he crashed into a parked trailer on the Fellowship Public Road, at Mahaicony.

Now that the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) testing capacity in Guyana has been boosted, Minister of Health Dr.

The Rotary Club of Georgetown Central has donated outdoor workout equipment to the National Park in George-town. 

Minister of Health Dr Frank Anthony and Canadian High Commissioner to Guyana Lilian Chatterjee recently discussed the possibility of developing an application (App) that will track COVID-19 patients or persons who have been tested here for the disease.

Works Minister Juan Edghill, who has been performing the duties of Finance Minister, yesterday said the ministry and budget agencies are working to address the delay in the payment of salaries to workers at some government agencies.

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) has promoted Orson Ferguson, its Vice President of Customer Experience, to the role of Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). 

The Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) has raised the minimum age of eligibility for house lot applicants to 21. 

The $245m Dr Yesu Persaud Clinical Education Centre was today inaugurated at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

Police are working to clear blockages along the West Coast Berbice public road, between Number 3 and Number 5 villages.

The Ministry of Health today said that as of October 24, 2020, two more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

Minister of Tourism, Industry and Commerce Oneidge Walrond today said she renounced her US citizenship before she was sworn in as a M.P.

In a major statement on the political situation here, United Nations  (UN) Resident Co-ordinator Mikiko Tanaka today said that given the slim margin in the legislature between the two sides, parliamentary decision-making should entail consensus building and compromise so as to be inclusive of all sides.

Questions were yesterday raised about whether Minister Oneidge Walrond had renounced her American citizenship before becoming a Member of Parliament (MP) and the Clerk of the National Assembly Sherlock Isaacs said he had not been supplied with any such document.

By Readawne Henery The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has withdrawn the private criminal charges filed against Chief Election Officer Keith Lowenfield and issued fiats for six attorneys to prosecute the charges still pending against him.

Eight of the persons squatting at canefields at Success, on the East Coast of Demerara, were injured yesterday after a section of a large tree fell on a shed under which they were sitting.

The police are on the hunt for three suspects who fatally stabbed an 18-year-old during an argument on Wednesday night at D’Urban Street, Lodge, Georgetown.