Guyana News

The recently elected President of Suriname,  Chandrikapersad Santokhi and his Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Business, and International Politics, Albert Ramdin will attend tomorrow’s inauguration of  Dr Irfaan Ali, as President of Guyana.

Attorney General Anil Nandlall today said that all public land deals made by the APNU+AFC administration since December 21st, 2018 are to be reviewed.

The Competition and Consumer Affairs Commission (CCAC) today advised members of the public to be wary of Pyramid and Ponzi schemes which are disguised as legitimate investments.

Former President David Granger in a Facebook address today maintained his position that the declared results of the March 2nd elections were not acceptable and he accused the PPP/C government of giving former APNU+AFC government officials an unreasonable amount of time  to leave their lodgings.

A 52-year-old woman of Good Hope, East Bank Essequibo (EBE) was brutally murdered sometime yesterday morning following a feud involving two villagers and her sons on Wednesday afternoon. 

Sole shareholder, Jacob Rambarran, of the Ocean View Hotel which was converted by the previous APNU+AFC Administration into an infectious diseases hospital, says that Government owes some $65M in rent which it never paid for use of the property.

Promising to be a “field” minister who will be accessible to farmers countrywide, newly appointed Minister of Agriculture Zulfikar Mustapha says that his government will relentlessly pursue its manifesto promise of reopening shuttered sugar estates and a priority will be completing an assessment of the sugar sector to see how this can be achieved as soon as possible.

Senior Superintendent Wendell Blanhum, who had been serving as Commander of Region One, has been returned to the post of Crime Chief as more changes in the hierarchy of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) have been effected under the PPP/C government.

All members of Region Nine’s COVID-19 Rapid Response Team have been quarantined after they came into contact with persons infected with the respiratory disease.

Cecil Sampat, one of two civilians shot following a police chase through the city nearly two weeks ago, died on Wednesday at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).

Twenty-nine new coronavirus cases were yesterday recorded as the number continues to rise sharply.

A thirty-six-year-old porknocker of De Kinderen, West Coast Demerara, succumbed to his stab wounds while waiting to be medivacked to the capital yesterday morning.

The search is on for a person to be appointed Speaker of the National Assembly, while Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Governance Gail Teixeira announced that the first sitting of the 12th Parliament could be as soon as the next two weeks.

New Minister of Natural Resources Vickram Bharrat yesterday met with the Heads of the various agencies under the purview of the Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) and received a “grim” report.

Imran Khan, who served as the Director of Public Information in the APNU+AFC government has been asked to give up his occupancy at Echilibar Villas, a government-owned property located at Stone Avenue, Campbellville, in Georgetown.

RadioShack Guyana will today be opening its main store in the Fogarty’s Building which will make it the third addition to the brand of stores under Unicomer Guyana’s network of retail stores, a release from the company said yesterday.

The African Cultural and Development Association (ACDA) is advocating for constitutional reform, shared governance and an end to racial division and cautions that foreign powers may not have Guyana’s best interest at heart.  

The National Insurance Scheme (NIS) yesterday announced the temporary closure of its Lethem office after an employee came into contact with a person who has been tested positive for COVID-19.

The Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) yesterday congratulated the new government headed by Dr Irfaan Ali ”as the choice of Guyanese based on the declaration of GECOM”.

Wilfred Rambarran, the owner of the property on which the Infectious Diseases Hospital at Liliendaal is located, is claiming $13m per month in rental since April this year.