Guyana News

Minister of Home Affairs Robeson Benn on Wednes-day said that there has been an increase in attacks on members of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) by members of the public as of recent, a situation which he described as “very distressing”.

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) situation in the Lusignan Prison is presently under control with only 21 persons being considered active cases.

An NGO, Global Perspective Inc (GPI), is planning to set up a programme to assist those persons who have been let go from public sector agencies over the past months.

The Canadian airline, WestJet, has been granted approval to operate two repatriation flights between Canada and Guyana, as there is a significant demand for flights by citizens of both countries.

A Joint Operation conducted by the Guyana Defence Force in collaboration with the Guyana Police Force (GPF) and the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) earlier this week found a massive tunnel mining operation in the New River Basin some 50 miles east of Masakenari (Gunns Village), South Rupununi.

Guyana has recorded another COVID-19 fatality.  The latest fatality is a 46-year-old female from Region Four (Demerara-Mahaica) who died while receiving care at the Ministry of Health’s medical facility.

With demonopolization likely to increase competition, GTT today said that 300Mbps is now available to its business customers on the country’s largest fibre network.

Acting Commissioner of Police Nigel Hoppie yesterday said that investigators are currently pursuing new leads as they continue to investigate the murders of teenaged cousins Isiah and Joel Henry, who were  killed more than a month ago at Cotton Tree, West Coast Berbice (WCB).

The threatened flooding of Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) lands at Success, East Coast Demerara to force the removal of dozens of squatters began yesterday but those occupying the area have vowed to stay put.

The Eugene F Correia Inter-national Airport (EFCIA) at Ogle is prepared to receive its first commercial traffic since the COVID lockdown – a Caribbean Airlines (CAL) flight from Barbados on Monday.

Another of the three suspects said to be involved in the murder of Albouystown teen, Jumal Lancelot Park, is currently in custody after he surrendered to the police yesterday morning in the presence of his lawyer and relatives.

Odel Roberts was yesterday afternoon acquitted of the 2015 murder of Sophia businessman Shawn Anys who police had said was shot and killed by bandits.

Chairman of the People’s National Con-gress Reform (PNCR), Volda Lawrence, was yesterday faced with two counts of conspiracy to commit fraud.

Police have arrested a relative of a former Deputy Commissioner of Police, who was the security guard on duty on Tuesday night at the Eugo Supermarket situated at Melanie, East Coast Demerara (ECD) when armed bandits invaded and carted off over $1M in cash and other items.

Twenty-four additional cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) were confirmed by the Ministry of Health (MoH) yesterday.

The Deeds and Commercial Registry Authority today said that it has taken note of an “ill-informed, reckless and malicious post being circulated on social media which sought to convey that a large number of staff of the Registry contracted COVID-19”.

Pensioners are set to enjoy an ease in the cost of living with the announcement that they will receive 2,000 gallons of water (ten cubic meters) free of cost from January 1 in keeping with budgetary provisions.

GDF Lance Corporal Kester Bowen was yesterday charged with assaulting and obstructing a peace officer acting in the execution of his duties.

After years of work, the rehabilitation and expansion of the Brickdam lockups has been finally  completed to the tune of $60M and the facility was handed over yesterday to the Guyana Police Force (GPF).

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has offered to assist Guyana with electoral reform, according to a statement yesterday from the AG’s Chambers.