Guyana News

Minister of Health Dr. Frank Anthony yesterday  accused the former APNU+AFC government of leaving Guyana with a broken health care system, which he partially blamed for compromising the response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) yesterday advised the police to charge four suspects with the murder of Bath Settlement businessman, Mohamed Haniff.

The main opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance for Change (APNU+AFC) has filed its second petition challenging the March 2nd polls and is seeking to have the court nullify the outcome and to declare President Irfaan Ali to be illegally holding office.

Months after they were recaptured, three prisoners including a murder accused who fled while incarcerated at the Lusignan Prison were jailed after they admitted to escaping  from custody.

Despite being faced with a number of challenges,  Crime Chief Senior Super-intendent Wendell Blanhum recently completed the University of Guyana’s (UG) Bachelors of Law Degree (LLB) programme and passed with a distinction.

Guyana Power and Light (GPL) incorporated has once again failed to reach several key benchmarks in the delivery of service including the frequency and duration of blackouts and system losses.

A businessman who had been previously jailed for shooting at Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) officers was on Wednesday brought before a court on a charge of shooting at another person.

The conditions at the weakened Mahaicony sea defences have worsened with the onset of higher than normal spring tides.

A 43-year-old pedestrian died after he was struck down and ran over by a motor lorry along the Parika Access Road,  East Bank Essequibo (EBE) on Wednesday afternoon.

A Ministry of Amerindian Affairs employee and a businesswoman are  currently nursing injuries in the Linden Hospital after the pick-up  in which they were in was  involved in an accident along  the Rockstone Trail.

The High Court on Monday threw out a $90 million suit filed by shareholders Ronald and his brother Rustum Bulkan of Precision Woodworking Limited (PWL) against the Bank of Guyana (BoG) and its Governor Dr.

Commissioner of the Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission (GL&SC) Trevor Benn has been instructed to proceed on 42 days of annualised vacation from tomorrow and to prepare a handover/takeover statement to be given to Enrique Monize, who will be acting in his stead.

The Ministry of Public Works today said that the current spring tide has exposed more of the Mahaicony sea defence to erosion after protective mangroves were swept away.

The Speaker of the National Assembly, Manzoor Nadir at the start of yesterday’s session of the budget debate announced that 14 employees of Parliament Office have tested positive for  COVID-19.

When United States Secretary of State Michael Pompeo arrives here today he will be signing a MOU for joint maritime patrols with Guyana to interdict drugs and the security threats posed to the region by Venezuela will also be on the agenda This is according to a US State Department official who provided a briefing yesterday in Washing-ton on the visit that also includes Suriname, Brazil and Colombia.

Four adults and one juvenile were yesterday charged with the murder of Prettipaul Hargobin who had opened fire with a shotgun at protesters in Bath, West Coast Berbice a week ago.

The Ministry of Health yesterday disclosed that two women from Region One who were infected with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) died while receiving treatment at a medical facility.

A  Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) will tomorrow morning be signed between the United States and Guyana that positions this country, with US help, to bolster private sector investment in infrastructure, Washington yesterday announced.

Investigators have recommended  criminal charges against four of the suspects who were arrested and questioned in relation to the murder of Bath Settlement businessman, Mohamed Haniff,  Crime  Chief Wendell Blanhum says.

Minister of Public Service Sonia Parag and her predecessor Tabitha Sarabo-Halley yesterday squared off over whether there had been discrimination in the ministry’s public scholarship programme with the former contending  that hinterland regions were particularly badly served.