Guyana News

Acting Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire SC has ordered the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) and the Guyana Energy Agency (GEA) to release to Atlantic Fuels Inc (AFI) the 635,353 litres of diesel fuel it had seized and detained.

Leader of the Opposition Joseph Harmon today expressed concern that a Taiwanese Office for Investment will be established in Guyana.

Guyana has acquiesced to the establishment of a Taiwanese investment office here, a move certain to upset its 48-year ties with the People’s Republic of China which have been underpinned by adherence to the `One China Policy’.

Two vessels with 12 Guyanese aboard are expected back in Guyana’s waters later this week after being illegally detained by the Venezuelan Navy on January 21.

A taxi driver was shot in the head on Tuesday night while attending a party in North East La Penitence.

A supervisor at the Edward B Beharry and Company Limited, Mandela Avenue location, died on Tuesday in a worksite accident involving a pressurized air hose.

President Irfaan Ali yesterday helped to turn the sod for what is expected to be one of the largest malls in Guyana and which will be situated at Leonora, West Coast Demerara.

IDB Invest, a member of the IDB Group, has approved a US$4 million loan to Surinamese company, Fernandes Guyana Enterprise (FGE) to expand bread production here.

Although the Ministry of Education (MoE) has extended the timelines for the completion of several projects ongoing at the University of Guyana (UG) Turkeyen campus, it has warned it will terminate those not completed on the revised schedule.

With the Cricket Administration Act no longer suspended, the Demerara Cricket Board (DCB) is likely to now be able to hold its elections to select office-holders.

Introduction In the last week, Stabroek News has carried several articles on the deplorable conditions encountered by residents in mainly rural coastal communities.

Minister of Public Works, Juan Edghill yesterday appealed to vendors who sell on the Seawall to comply with the applicable regulations.

An undisclosed number of students at the University of Guyana (UG) are expected to face disciplinary action after the university received a “selfie video” showing the students breaching the COVID-19 guidelines.

Guyana yesterday  recorded 36 new COVID-19 cases after over 600 persons were tested during the most recent testing cycle.

Robbery charges against a Police Tactical Services Unit (TSU) constable have been dropped after he agreed to pay compensation to the victim.

Agriculture Minister, Zulfikar Mustapha and a team of senior officers from the ministry on Friday told farmers from along the Pomeroon River in Region Two that they will soon benefit from an improved drainage and irrigation system and aid with planting materials.

Stating that Guyana does not have the capacity to host two major examinations simultaneously, Minister of Education Priya Manickchand says that the Ministry is awaiting the disclosure of dates for the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) exams before setting a date for this year’s Grade Six Assessment (NGSA).

A man who claims to be Guyanese recently admitted in a Barbados court to jumping off a cement boat and swimming to the shores of the Land of the Flying Fish where he remained illegally for months before being arrested.

The Ministry of Health has not made use of thousands of antibody tests that were donated to Guyana but plans to employ them for surveillance in the first quarter of 2021.

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