Guyana News

Bids were on Tuesday opened at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board for emergency sanitising supplies and pharmaceuticals.

Speaker of the National Assembly, Manzoor Nadir has disallowed a motion by the opposition calling for the current Government to retain the name of the “Ministry of Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs”.

Bartica Mayor, Gifford Marshall says the municipality supports the special restrictive measures imposed on Region Seven and reminded residents that they each have an individual responsibility.

Preparatory steps are underway to ensure Guyana is ready for a COVID-19 vaccine and authorities are looking at giving older persons and those with co-morbidities priority when vaccines for the virus arrive in the country.

The dredge operators who were illegally mining on Micobie lands in Region Eight are still refusing to refill the land they have excavated  to conduct mining operations, Toshao Cleveland Henry yesterday revealed.

Three miners  appeared virtually at the Port Kaituma Magistrate’s Court yesterday charged with the murder of  Kevin Allam.

Yogeshwar Kumar, the man accused of murdering a 16-year-old teen of Rich-mond Housing Scheme, Essequibo Coast, was yesterday discharged from the hospital after having attempted to take his own life.

A Christianburg Secondary school teacher was on Tuesday robbed at gunpoint of his motorcycle by two masked men.

Twenty-six new COVID cases were recorded yesterday with fifteen of them originating from Region Ten, according to the Ministry of Health’s (MoH) dashboard.

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) rapid antigen test recently procured by the Ministry of Health (MoH) will be used in hospitals around the country according to Minister of Health, Dr Frank Anthony.

The Chairman and Directors of the Guyana National Printers Limited (GNPL) at an Emergency Board Meeting today unanimously decided that Finance Manager of GNPL,  Shawn Victorine, proceed on leave with immediate effect to facilitate an audit of the company’s finances.

Three miners are to appear at the Port Kaituma Magistrate’s Court today charged with the murder of  Kevin Allam.

The SleepIn Hotel opened the doors of its Carnival Casino yesterday—one day after being licensed to operate by the Gaming Authority.

On January 18th acting Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire SC will deliver her ruling on whether the two election petitions filed by A Part-nership for National Unity + Alliance for Change (APNU+AFC) will be thrown out or not. 

ExxonMobil on Monday disclosed that it will write down the value of North and South American natural gas fields by a staggering US$17 billion to US$20 billion according to a Bloomberg report.

Issues of overtime payment and being “handed over” to a contracted company were among the concerns highlighted to Minister of Labour, Joseph Hamilton, by local employees of Zijin Mining, the new owners of Aurora Gold Mines (AGM).

In the aftermath of Friday’s severing of the Guyana Power and Light’s (GPL) cable across the Demerara River, new measures have been announced to protect it.

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) has been granted Orders authorizing the deportation of 26 Haitian nationals who have been detained for weeks at the state-run Hugo Chavez Centre for Rehabilitation and Reintegration.

Investigators in Berbice yesterday after-noon arrested two more persons in connection with the robbery committed on Marcus Brian Bisram on Sunday evening at his Number 70 Village, Corentyne, home and two of his “friends” were said to be involved in the attack. 

Although enforcement of the national coronavirus disease (COVID-19) emergency measures is to be stepped up during the Christmas season, Prime Minister Mark Phillips yesterday said it would be as a last resort as the government is focusing on educating citizens about the virus and encouraging them to follow the measures.