Guyana News

A Corentyne man is now dead while another is nursing injuries to his face after they were attacked by two armed men along the Albion Public Road on Saturday evening while returning home from work. 

Minister of Agriculture, Zulfikar Mustapha was yesterday told about serious flooding in Black Bush Polder, Corentyne and he told farmers that the new government is working to ensure that there is more money in their pockets.

Dr. Dhanpaul Narine, who is deeply involved with the Guyanese diaspora in New York said the main focus of the newly sworn in People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) government should be on the “reduction of poverty” through training for jobs and business opportunities.

Nine new COVID-19 cases have been registered according to the Ministry of Health’s (MoH) COVID-19 dashboard for yesterday taking the new confirmed total to 1,468.

Engineers at the Demerara Harbour Bridge yesterday facilitated and supervised a retraction to allow the movement of marine traffic and the authorities are aiming to complete emergency mechanical works by Thursday, General Manager Rawlston Adams told Stabroek News yesterday.

The technical and legal teams from the Department of Energy remain in talks with ExxonMobil on the proposed agreement for the Payara Field Development Plan, Minister of Natural Resources Vickram Bharrat told Stabroek News last night.

The APNU+AFC government demitted office without accounting for how much of the controversial US$18m signing bonus from ExxonMobil was actually spent on legal fees pertaining to the Guyana-Venezuela border controversy.

Minister of Home Affairs Robeson Benn last night said that the police are vigorously pursuing investigations into the murder of two West Coast Berbice teens Isiah Henry and Joel Henry.

Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Government, Gail Teixeira today issued a statement on the ongoing contretemps over APNU+AFC representation on state boards.

The bodies of two missing West Coast Berbice youths were this afternoon discovered at Cotton Tree Village.

Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Anil Nandlall today furnished the following statement on a news item in today’s Sunday Stabroek on the status of Azeena Baksh, the Registrar of Deeds.

The police today said that they are investigating the suspected murder of Earl Peters, age 75 years, a security guard  attached to the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom)  Office, Port Kaituma, North West District (NWD)  which occurred at Train Line, Port Kaituma, NWD yesterday.

The People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) will always be a major political party in Guyanese politics but if it is to successfully lead in the future it must return to its base, clearly redefine its purpose and message and find new leaders. 

The Ministry of Public Works yesterday announced the mobilising of a technical team to take urgent action on retractor span problems at the Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB) which have prevented the passing of marine traffic and the passage of heavy vehicles.

According to the Ministry of Health’s COVID-19 dashboard, 43 new cases of the disease were confirmed yesterday.

Plans are afoot for Registrar of Deeds Azeena Baksh who was earlier this year found guilty of paying herself just over $4.5M, to resume her duties.

Minister of Agriculture, Zulfikar Mustapha yesterday visited the factories attached to the shuttered Skeldon and Rose Hall estates, after which he told East Canje residents he was advised that the Rose Hall factory is in a good state. 

After being closed for almost six months, Shanta’s Puri Shop, located at, 255 Camp Street, Georgetown, has reopened for business.

The international food franchise, Popeyes, opened a new restaurant in Parika yesterday, according to the Department of Public Information (DPI).

Despite displaying symptoms of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), a nurse who worked alongside Dr Seepersaud Chatterdeo, the paediatrician who died a week ago from COVID-19, says she was told she has to wait two to three weeks for her test results.