Guyana News

More than one thousand persons have signed a petition undertaken by the Free University of Guyana Movement to get the University of Guyana’s facilities fees waived as a result of classes being held online due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

A hire car operator is currently hospitalised after he was stabbed to his neck and robbed of his vehicle early yesterday morning at Port Kaituma, Region One.

Minister of Health Dr Frank Anthony has said that the ongoing rehabilitation of the Diamond Regional Hospital is expected to be completed within two months Dr.

A $300M fraud was discovered by the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) around fuel supply at GuyOil.

Guyana has recorded its 55th COVID-19 death. A release from the Ministry of Health follows:(MOH- GEORGETOWN) – The Ministry of Health (MOH) regrettably informs that as of 17:00hrs on September 12, 2020, one other person who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has died.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is due to visit Guyana on September 17-18, according to well-places sources.

Mohamed Haniff, the Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice, businessman who was found with chop injuries about his body last night, has succumbed.  

Former Minister of Finance Winston Jordan says the new PPP/C government’s 2020 emergency budget has eroded the revenue base of the country, while enormously inflating the deficit and he charged that the budgetary measures are private-sector oriented rather than for the people.

On Monday, most students nationwide are expected to collectively begin the new school year with lessons being delivered through online classes, on-air educational programmes, and traditional workbooks, Minister of Education Priya Manickchand announced yesterday.

Clairmont Mingo, the Returning Officer of Region Four, was yesterday read a new charge alleging that he was part of a conspiracy to produce fraudulent results for March 2, 2020 general and regional elections.

One of the latest COVID-19 casualties has been identified as 65-year-old Alfred Gonsalves, who was hospitalised after experiencing breathing problems.

Director of Medical and Professional Services at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) Dr.

The Ministry of Health yesterday disclosed that 13 new cases of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) have been recorded in the most recent test results.

The Ministry of Health is exploring the possibility of conducting point-of-care testing in Guyana for COVID-19 as a means of achieving a faster turn-around time for results, which could be available in as little as 15 minutes.

President Irfaan Ali yesterday assured the families of Isaiah and Joel Henry, the teenaged cousins who were murdered last weekend in West Coast Berbice (WCB), that “no stones will be left unturned” during the investigation of the crime.

Welcoming the restoration of calm on the Upper East Coast and West Bank of Berbice, People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) Chairperson Volda Lawrence yesterday maintained the call for those behind the gruesome murders of four young men in recent days to be urgently brought to justice, while issuing an appeal for national unity In a statement, Lawrence also assured that she was resolute in going the full way until justice is served.

Haresh Singh, the youth who was fatally beaten in what is suspected to be a reprisal killing after the murders of cousins Isaiah and Joel Henry, died as a result of brain haemorrhaging and blunt trauma to the head, compounded by compression injuries to his neck, an autopsy confirmed yesterday.

President Irfaan Ali yesterday said the government will be employing “the full force of the laws” to end the promotion of racial hate on social media.

A total of $51.7 billion, representing 15% of the 2020 emergency budget, will be allocated to the health sector this year.

The government has earmarked $52 billion for the public education sector in its emergency budget.