Guyana News

After being closed for almost six months, Shanta’s Puri Shop, located at, 255 Camp Street, Georgetown, has reopened for business.

The international food franchise, Popeyes, opened a new restaurant in Parika yesterday, according to the Department of Public Information (DPI).

Despite displaying symptoms of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), a nurse who worked alongside Dr Seepersaud Chatterdeo, the paediatrician who died a week ago from COVID-19, says she was told she has to wait two to three weeks for her test results.

According to Opposition Leader Joseph Harmon it is ludicrous for the PPP/C government to exclude his party from state boards because it maintains that the administration is fraudulent.

Three local youths have developed an app to help young would-be entrepreneurs access quality business training.

Reconstruction at the Camp Street prison recently recommenced, months after it was stopped due to the new Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak and upon completion it will accommodate one hundred and eighty inmates.

The Parika Police Station will be demolished to accommodate a new structure which will be equipped to handle all categories of reports.

Following the admission that some hinterland communities affected by the coronavirus (COVID-19) are not being monitored as they should be, Minister of Health Dr Frank Anthony on Friday explained that the lack of cellular services in those areas is making health responses more difficult.

John Fernandes Limited has leased a part of the T&HD Goods Wharf.

Mahesha Boodhoo won a recent online spelling bee contest when she spelt the word `pessimistic’ in the final round.

A fire last evening completely destroyed a house in Lancaster Village, Corentyne and quickly spread to a neighbour’s house severely damaging a wall.

Last Update: 633.03                                        Movement: 0.87% Current Update: 638.51                                 YTD Movement: 5.37% The Lucas Stock Index (LSI) fell 0.01 percent during the final period of trading in August 2020.

Tomorrow morning (Sunday, September 6, 2020) at 8:30am engineers will facilitate and supervise a retraction of the Demerara Harbour Bridge to allow for marine traffic, a release today from the Ministry of Public Works said.

The Justice For All Party (JFAP) today disclosed that it had withdrawn from A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), the key constituent of the former governing coalition, APNU+AFC.

The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) says that tomorrow, Sunday, September 6th,  customers from North Sophia to Better Hope, East Coast Demerara will experience an interruption in the supply of electricity from 8 am to 4 pm.

The PPP/C government has amended the design of the proposed Ogle to Diamond bypass road so the project cost could be in line with the available sums and the Indian Government has accepted the proposal.

According to Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Government, Gail Teixeira, the APNU+AFC Coalition has not been included in any of the state boards announced because they continue to refer to the government as “illegitimate.”

A Berbice woman has now decided to speak out after she lost her baby at the New Amsterdam Public Hospital last month.

The Demerara Harbour Bridge will be closed to marine traffic until further notice. 

Seepersaud Chatterdeo, a well-known Guyanese paediatrician who died on Sunday at the Balwant Singh Hospital at the age of 47, tested positive for the novel coronavirus.