Guyana News

Minister with responsibility for Finance, Dr Ashni Singh says that the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) this year is expected to grow by 20.9%.

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

A New Amsterdam, Berbice, woman is now in police custody after she fatally stabbed her  partner during the wee hours of this morning at Main and Pitt streets, New Amsterdam.

A policeman based at the Blairmont Police Station is reported to have last night shot a woman he was in a relationship with, sources say.

A pharmacist attached to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) was the first of dozens of frontline healthcare workers who were inoculated with the Oxford AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine yesterday, almost one year after the first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in Guyana.

According to President Irfaan Ali his government has committed to putting patriotism ahead of partisan politics and he yesterday announced the establishment of a `One Guyana Commission’  aimed at attaining “oneness”.

While laying out his administration’s new defence thrust, President Irfaan Ali yesterday emphasised the importance of taking care of the wellbeing of each soldier and announced that in addition to scholarships, affordable housing would be made available and 150 pre-qualified soldiers would be benefitting soon.

India has approved financing for the four-lane Ogle to Eccles road nearly a year ahead of schedule.  “Today we received the news that all of the approval has been given in India.

Four years after he brutally raped, murdered and dumped Leonard Archibald’s body in the Berbice River, Hillary Edwards was yesterday sentenced to life imprisonment by Justice Simone Morris-Ramlall.

The U.S. Embassy in Georgetown yesterday announced a partnership with the Judiciary of Guyana for the development of an automated court case management system in Guyana.

The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) on Wednesday informed the Ministry of Health (MoH) that the samples sent to the laboratory for  gene sequencing show  no trace of any of the new COVID-19 variants that have been circulating around the world.

The Ministry of Health yesterday disclosed that two more persons have died after becoming infected with COVID-19.

Linden Junior Isaacs, was yesterday committed to stand trial at the High Court over the fatal stabbing of his mother-in-law, Velma Pickering.

The COVID-19 Relief and Support Programme which oversees the issuing of grants of $25,000 to households has distributed a total of 236,876 grants valued at nearly $6 billion across the ten administrative regions as of February 6, this year.

The Venezuelan naval vessel that escorted the Guyanese fishing crews that were detained in that country turned back last week at the line demarcating the western extreme of Guyana’s exclusive economic zone, according to Colonel Julius Skeete of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF).  “Interestingly enough, what we do know though is that when the vessels returned, the escort — because they were escorted by the Venezuela naval vessel — they stopped at the line that we are saying is the demarcation of our western extreme of our exclusive economic zone,” Colonel Skeete told reporters yesterday on the sidelines of the opening of the force’s annual officers’ conference.

Two men were on Wednesday arrested by the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) in relation to an ongoing cocaine probe.

Security guards attached to Sheriff Security Services were among dozens of other persons working at the Infectious Diseases Hospital in Liliendaal who were vaccinated for COVID-19 yesterday.

While dining establishments have developed creative settings to attract customers for Valentine’s Day celebrations, gift shops are still facing the brunt of the coronavirus pandemic’s impact on businesses.

The Law Reform Commission (Amendment) Bill tabled by Attorney General Anil Nandlall SC was passed in the National Assembly yesterday, without challenge from the main parliamentary APNU+AFC Opposition which was absent from the debate.

Police in Berbice have discovered the belongings of Sherida Hussain, the woman who is still missing in the Number 63 Beach tragedy.