Guyana News

Over 150 witnesses are expected to testify at the trial of District Four Re-turning Officer Clairmont Mingo, who is accused of seeking to falsify the results of the March 2nd elections.

Prison authorities are not investigating how the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) entered the Lusignan Prison, where more than one hundred inmates were infected.

A bid to break up a row between two men on Thursday has landed a policeman in the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) with multiple stab wounds.

The Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has made around $73m available to Guyana in its fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

Guyana has recorded its 74th COVID-19 death. The latest fatality is a 71-year-old female from Pomeroon – Supenaam (Region 2) who died while receiving care at the ministry medical facility.

Controversy has erupted here and in other parts of the Caribbean over what has been described as the “shockingly low” and flawed grades awarded by CXC in this year’s  CSEC and CAPE examinations.

ExxonMobil has secured approval for its Payara project in the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana and an agreement, which would also cater for stiff fines for flaring violations and a commitment that reservoir water be treated to international standards before dumping, should be signed soon, Minister of Natural Resources Vickram Bharrat has said.

Yuri Garcia Dominguez and Ateeka Ishmael, the principals of Accelerated Capital Firm Inc (ACFI), who are currently facing close to eighty charges in what has been described as a huge Ponzi scheme were yesterday released from prison after posting bail of around $30M.

Staff of the West Demerara Regional Hospital (WDRH) yesterday staged an early-morning protest over late salaries and the conditions they claim they are forced to work under at the hospital.

By Readawne Henery Relatives of Earl Graham, one of the inmates who was fatally shot last Saturday at the Lusignan Prison, are questioning the decision by guards to use lethal force and they say evidence shown to them suggests that he was not among those who were reported to have been rioting.

Forty-four additional cases of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and two more deaths were confirmed by the Ministry of Health yesterday.

The Guyana Bar Association (GBA) in response to an article published in yesterday’s edition of the Stabroek News under the headline `High Court criminal trials set to recommence October 6’ has express-ed the view that given the COVID-19 pandemic, trials should not recommence at this time.

Chait Balkarran, the driver involved in Tuesday’s accident that claimed the life of Mahaicony pensioner, Deonarine Lalchand was yesterday granted bail in the sum of $450,000 after he was charged with several traffic related-offences including causing death by dangerous driving.

Quenita Walrond-Lewis is the new Director of the National Centre for Educational Resource Development (NCERD) and will begin in her new position on October 1.

Former Chief Education Officer Olato Sam will be embracing a new role at the Ministry of Education.

Four relatives of Haresh Singh were arrested twice as part of the investigation into the brutal murders of Joel and Isaiah Henry, after they would have disclosed to persons and eventually to investigators that they saw the two boys on the dam heading into the backdam.

The deadline for the submission of proposals to market Guyana’s oil has been extended to next Tuesday after the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) was forced to suspend its operations due to staff members testing positive for COVID-19.

Leroy Graham, the inmate who escaped from the Lusignan Prison during the early hours of Wednesday morning, has been recaptured.

It has been almost three weeks since teenaged cousins Isiah and Joel Henry were brutally murdered and while no charge has yet been laid, Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum said the investigation is ongoing.

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) today said that a joint patrol comprising ranks of the GDF and the Guyana Police Force came under fire yesterday from the Venezuelan shore during a routine joint patrol om the Cuyuni River.