Guyana News

Four men were yesterday remanded to prison after being charged with the murder of businessman Mohamed Haniff, who succumbed in hospital a week ago after he was brutalised during a home invasion at Bath, on the West Coast of Berbice. 

The Guyana Police Force yesterday announced that dozens of ranks found nothing of “evidential” value for the investigation into the murders of teenaged cousins Isaiah and Joel Henry after hours of combing the backlands of No. 

Two of the three foreign nationals who were held on Sunday at 9 Miles Airstrip, Issano, Middle Mazaruni River, where they claimed they crash landed, were yesterday charged with entering the country illegally.

While acknowledging missteps by his government, former Public Infrastructure Minister David Patterson on Thursday urged the new administration to commit and act to ensure safe and environmentally-sound operations in the oil and gas sector.

Opposition parliamentarian Dr Karen Cummings on Wednesday stated that the former APNU+AFC coalition government managed the COVID-19 pandemic in a timely manner and left the new health minister with “a good pitch and wicket to bat” in the public health sector.

The Ministry of Health yesterday confirmed the deaths of two persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), taking the country’s death toll to 64.

Minister of Public Works Juan Edghill yesterday said the government is “aggressively” working to recommence commercial flight operations at Guyana’s two international airports in the shortest possible time, while assuring that measures in place to do so safely would be continuously evaluated as public health remains paramount.

Describing the Ministry of Legal Affairs as being “dormant” over the past five years, Attorney General (AG) Anil Nandlall yesterday told the National Assembly that a clear legislative agenda is now in place as he promised less wastage in spending and the delivery of judicial reforms under his stewardship. 

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) yesterday announced that it has received authorisation to commence underwater repairs to it submarine fiber-optic cable, which it says was damaged a few weeks ago in what is suspected to be a case of sabotage.

Three men armed with cutlasses yesterday attacked a family of three during a failed robbery attempt at their Nonpareil, East Coast Demerara home.

The Ministry of Health (MOH) this evening said  that as of 17:00hrs today, two other persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

The Chinese Embassy here today rejected statements it said were made by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during his two-day visit to Guyana.

Following the signing of an agreement today between Foreign Minister Hugh Todd and visiting US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, joint maritime and air patrols between Guyana and the US to interdict drugs could begin as early as next Monday.

The government today said it is working “aggressively” to commence commercial flight operations at the two international airports in the shortest possible time.

As the investigation into the murder of Joel and Isaiah Henry continues, a total of 75 ranks drawn from Region 5, the Major Crimes Unit from CID Headquarters and the Guyana Defence Force led by the Region 5 Divisional Commander and a Lt Colonel, and accompanied by Dr.

United States Secretary of State Michael Pompeo arrived in Guyana yesterday afternoon, the second stop in his South American tour of four countries and last evening attended a dinner with President Irfaan Ali.

For a second consecutive day, the Ministry of Health (MoH) announced that two persons who were infected with the coronavirus disease died while receiving treatment at a medical facility.

The authorities yesterday met to discuss a plan ahead of the arrival of a team from the Regional Security System (RSS), which will be aiding in the investigation of the murders of the three West Coast Berbice (WCB) teenagers including the Henry cousins. 

Samuel Allen, who police say murdered a security guard attached to the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Office at Port Kaituma, North West District, was yesterday charged and remanded to prison.

A convicted prisoner was yesterday remanded after he was charged with murdering his fellow inmate during a scuffle at the Lusignan Prison almost six months ago.