Guyana News

Sections of the National Public Health Reference Laboratory (NPHRL) are awaiting certification so that additional testing for COVID-19 can be done there, according to Minister of Health Dr Frank Anthony.

The Oasis Café is celebrating its 15th anniversary today. Co-owner Nisa Walker, during an interview with Stabroek News, said the Carmichael Street, George-town café was started out of the then seemingly impossible task of finding “proper” coffee here.

Minister of Agriculture Zulfikar Mustapha yesterday announced that government will be moving to set up a branch of the Guyana School of Agriculture (GSA) in Region Six. 

The police are currently investigating an accidental shooting that occurred on Monday night and resulted in two persons being injured.

Sheldon Colin Abrams, the suspect who was arrested more than a week ago for the 2015 murder of taxi driver Colin Clarke, was on Monday charged with murder and remanded to prison.

Two more police officers yesterday testified at the trial of former army Chief of Staff Gary Best, who is accused of causing the death of cyclist Jude Bentley.

The Ministry of Education and the Guyana Teachers’ Union have agreed to meet monthly on a variety of issues to ensure a “healthy relationship”.

The Ministry of Health today said that as of October 08th, 2020, four more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

 GECOM Chair, Justice of Appeal (ret’d) Claudette Singh today issued a statement rapping GECOM Commissioner Desmond Trotman for statements he has made.

Deputy Chief Election Officer, Roxanne Myers was this morning granted $300,000 bail after facing criminal charges at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

Police have been advised to charge Deputy Chief Election Officer (DCEO) Roxanne Myers with two counts of misconduct in public office and she is scheduled to appear in court today.

Imprisoned for the past 12 years awaiting trial for murder, Sherwin Nero is now free after Justice Navindra Singh sentenced him to time-served, stating that the time he had been incarcerated was a full sentence for manslaughter to which he pleaded.

Recently reinstated head of the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) James Singh had been removed by the former government due to the findings of a presidential inquiry, which concluded that he exercised egregiously flawed judgment and breached multiple laws when he released a vessel laden with suspected liquefied cocaine during a 2017 operation.

Pleading guilty to the charge of manslaughter, Paul James who back in 2015 had identified Hardat Kissoon to another person who would later shoot and kill him in a robbery after leaving a bank, was yesterday afternoon sentenced to 10 years behind bars with time spent awaiting trial to be deducted.

Although Guyana’s international airports are scheduled to reopen on Monday, airline operators are still to indicate to the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) their preparedness to resume commercial operations but a senior official expects them to return in weeks.

Six men including two Barbadians were taken into custody on Wednesday night following the discovery of a large quantity of marijuana on a Barbadian cargo vessel at a city wharf.

Three more witnesses yesterday testified at the trial of former army Chief of Staff Gary Best, who is accused of causing the death of cyclist Jude Bentley through dangerous driving.

As jury trials continued yesterday for a third day at the High Court in Georgetown after a hiatus since March over the coronavirus, Allan Sim was arraigned for the murder of Georgetown Public Hospital ambulance dispatcher Melissa Skeete.

Guyana has recorded 37 new COVID-19 cases. This was revealed in the Ministry of Health’s COVID-19 dashboard yesterday which showed that 37 new cases were recorded which increased the total number of cases in the country to 3,329.

APNU+AFC coalition Member of Parliament Annette Ferguson has called for the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) administration to act with compassion in its treatment of the squatters at Success, whom she says should be regularised.