Guyana News

The Doobay Medical and Research Centre yesterday donated one million disposable face masks and a quantity of face shields to the Ministry of Health.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) yesterday reported that 73 more cases of COVID-19 were confirmed on Thursday from the results of 230 tests that have been done.

After weeks without recording a positive case of COVID-19, Region Nine currently has at least nine active infections, which Regional Chairman Bryan Allicock says is a result of persons continuing to traverse between Guyana and Brazil.

Although travel between Suriname and Guyana is expected to resume on December 12th, the two governments are still in discussions on health protocols.

A pump attendant of Richmond Village, Essequibo Coast, was found dead in a trench at the front of his home yesterday.

In an attempt to examine the barriers to ethnic harmony in multi-ethnic Guyana, the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) is hosting a virtual National Conversation on improving ethnic relations on December 14 and 15.

A proposed amendment to the Law Reform Commission Act, piloted by Attorney General Anil Nandlall, will fundamentally alter the manner in which the members of the Commission are selected if passed.

The Texila American University (TAU) is hoping to provide a service for both patients on the East Bank Demerara and students at the university with the development of a hospital on its Providence campus.

In an effort to reduce the morning rush hour traffic congestion on the Demerara Harbour Bridge, as well as ease the build-up of traffic on the East and West banks of Demerara, a decision has been taken to restrict the west-bound traffic on the bridge from 6.15 am to 7 am In a notice published on its Facebook page yesterday morning, the DHBC announced that double lane traffic proceeding east on the Demerara Harbour Bridge will begin from 6.15am until  7am.

Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited (RBL) has gotten approval for a US$20 million line of credit from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) under its Trade Finance Facilitation Programme (TFFP).

In keeping with promises made to be inclusive, President Irfaan Ali this afternoon announced that he has invited all former presidents to a meeting on December 15th. 

Outgoing Canadian High Commissioner Lilian Chatterjee today said that Guyana lacks a skilled and sizeable labour force to benefit from the “explosive” oil-linked growth that is coming and she urged the country not to resist foreign investment but use its judgement on who to trust.

With Guyana on track to be the second or third largest oil producer in the Western Hemisphere, US Ambassador Sarah-Ann Lynch says the country has to advance from being a raw material so as to avoid the dreaded resource curse and she also stressed that contracts have to be honoured and that the government is accountable to all of the people.

Seventy- nine new COVID-19 cases were yesterday recorded and the majority were reported in Region Four.

Acting Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire SC last night granted a conservatory order staying a previous order made by Principal Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus for 26 Haitian nationals to be deported. 

Former Guyana Defence Force Chief of Staff Gary Best has been freed of the charge of causing the death of cyclist Jude Bentley by dangerous driving.

The Irfaan Ali cabinet last week rejected multi-million dollars payment submissions for works undertaken under the last government on the Infectious Disease Hospital and rental for the facility, sources say.

Professionals should not have their job security threatened over their political affiliation once they are qualified and apolitical in the execution of their duties, dismissed Director of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Dr.

The Trump administration  yesterday added China’s oil giant CNOOC, ExxonMobil’s partner  in Guyana’s offshore Stabroek Block to a blacklist of alleged Chinese military companies, according to Reuters.

The Ministry of Education (MoE) yesterday announced that schools will close on December 18 to facilitate students’ Christmas holidays.