Guyana News

The University of Guyana will be conducting its Entrance Examination (UGEE) virtually due to COVID-19 considerations.

The Guyana Securities Council (GSC) delivered a letter to the offices of Citizenship Minister Winston Felix on October 25th last year detailing concerns about pyramid-type schemes which are currently the subject of a major police investigation as thousands of persons here might have been defrauded.

On September 8th, acting Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire is set to commence hearing the application filed by attorney Timothy Jonas who is challenging last year’s appointment by former President David Granger of four senior counsel.

The first group of Guya-nese operations and maintenance trainees recently returned home after an extensive 18-month training programme in Canada organised by ExxonMobil Guyana.

A task force formed by the Mayor and City Council is scheduled to meet and discuss the way forward after three Stabroek Market stall owners tested positive for COVID-19.

Four persons were arrested at Number 78 Village, Corentyne after police made a discovery of three unlicensed guns and ammunition yesterday.

The Bankers Association of Guyana has indicated to the government its willingness to finance infrastructural projects in the coming years According to a Ministry of Public Works release yesterday, members of the banking association paid a courtesy call on the Minister within the Ministry, Deodat Indar, to discuss “financing options” available to borrowers who intend to pursue infrastructural projects in the coming years.

The number of active coronavirus disease cases (COVID-19) in the Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo region (Region 9) has significantly decreased during the past few days with the Regional Chairman Bryan Allicock informing that the region now only has 20 active cases.

A resident of Nismes, West Bank Demerara was relieved of $4.4 million on Monday night after two men armed with guns invaded his home.

A West Ruimveldt man is feared dead following a boat mishap at Gatie Falls, Semang Creek, Middle Mazaruni River, police in a statement said yesterday.

Police this afternoon arrested GECOM’s Returning Officer for District Four, Clairmont Mingo at his Mahaicony home and he is now in custody at the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Headquarters at Eve Leary.

The Ministry of Education today rebuffed reports that the salaries of teachers and cleaners are to be cut.

Former long-serving Speaker of the National Assembly Sase Narain  passed away today at the age of 95.

Chinese miner, Zijin Mining Group Co. Ltd and Canadian miner, Guyana Goldfields Inc (GGI) today  announced the conclusion of their arrangement where Zijin acquired all of the issued and outstanding common shares of the Region Seven-based company.

Thirty-two persons who claimed that they invested over $25M with the Accelerated Capital Firm Inc (ACFI), a company which is now at the centre of a huge suspected Ponzi scheme investigation have since approached the police with the hope of being reimbursed.

Two weeks after announcing that the Guyana Fores-try Commission (GFC) was unable to pay salaries for July and owes millions to the utility companies, the new government has approved the release of $350 million to cover these expenses.

Over the last five years the government’s scholarship programme has been heavily flawed.

Investigators probing the murder of Canadian citizen Nicholas Ramkissoon Jaipaul experienced hurdles in tracing calls on the victim’s cellular phone due to the lack of cooperation from a telephone company, Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum said.

Just five months after recording the first case of the novel coronavirus, Guyana yesterday surpassed 1000 cases of the disease.

The Government of Guyana yesterday issued an advisory urging former government ministers among others who might have state property in their possession to return these immediately to the relevant accounting officers.