Guyana News

The capacity at the Georgetown Public Hospital’s regular Intensive Care Unit (ICU) was not affected by the establishment of a specialised COVID-19 ICU at the facility, according to the hospital’s Communications Manager Chelauna Providence.

In an effort to rebuild public confidence and address an increase in crime and road fatalities, Minister of Home Affairs Robeson Benn is reconstituting  community policing groups across the country.

Six new COVID-19 cases were recorded yesterday. Meanwhile, nine persons are currently in the country’s COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit.

A Covent Garden resident is now hospitalised after he lost control of a car he was driving and collided with the concrete median along the Prospect Public Road, East Bank Demerara early on Sunday morning.

The family that was diagnosed with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) from Moblissa is currently recovering and are expected to be discharged later this week.

A Golden Grove man is now a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) after he was struck off of his bicycle by vehicle in a hit and run accident at Diamond, East Bank Demerara, last Saturday.

Based on a recent commitment from Minister of Agriculture, Zulfikar Mustapha, eleven residents of Mara, Upper East Bank Berbice have since been rehired apart of a community programme.

President Irfaan Ali today chronicled the achievements of his government over the last 100 days.

The government is seeking to acquire 50 patrol vehicles for the police force.

Expressing alarm that 11.5 tonnes of cocaine was able to slip by the security system here, Home Affairs Minister Robeson Benn yesterday said that the operation which was eventually foiled by Belgian police had to have been in planning for months and he also disclosed that law enforcers encountered explosives during a search of one house.

Following two rounds of testing administered to some of the students who are due to take up residence at public school dormitories, eight students have tested positive for COVID-19, Minister of Education Priya Manickchand confirmed yesterday. 

Sentenced to two years in jail and fined just under $700,000 for trafficking a pound of marijuana, a 36-year-old unemployed mother of four was yesterday released on $50,000 bail by the High Court pending an appeal of the sentence and fine imposed upon her by a Magistrate about two months ago.

The National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) will once again be postponed from being held in March/April.

Minister of Home Affairs Robeson Benn yesterday said that the Government does not intend to go beyond its “normal lines” of engagement in trying to solve the murders of teenaged cousins Isaiah and Joel Henry as well as Haresh Singh by facilitating a forensic team from Argentina.

Community officials in Buxton and Belladrum have reported improvements in drainage following commitments made by Minister of Agriculture, Zulfikar Mustapha.

Walter Narine, the Georgetown municipality’s Solid Waste Director, plans to seek legal advice after being informed by City Hall that he must repay over $900,000 for costs incurred when he contracted a private firm last year to dispose of garbage for the city.

The Ministry of Housing and Water yesterday signed 40 contracts valued $1.1 billion to ensure adequate infrastructure at housing estates.

(Trinidad Guardian) Officials at the Port of Port-of-Spain stopped millions of dollars in equipment from being loaded unto the Carabia, a vessel bound for Guyana, after discovering several discrepancies in the documents presented.

The origin of a fire that gutted the Singh’s building on Regent Street on Sun-day was still to be determined up to yesterday.

CARICOM yesterday congratulated the President-elect of the United States, Joseph Biden, on his victory in the elections of 2 November.