Guyana News

With the closure of the Wales sugar estate at the end of 2016, 774 private farmers who supplied the factory with cane were also affected and while many have had to find other alternatives to provide for their livelihoods, a few are hanging on and are now supplying the Uitvlugt sugar estate although now, they cultivate less than a quarter of the acreage that they did four years ago.

Kissoondatt Premsukh also known as ‘Dave’, the 49-year-old contractor who was gunned down on Thursday last, was shot just over a month ago at a store in Coldingen.

An Islington jeweller is now nursing two broken legs after he jumped about eight feet from his verandah to escape from two armed bandits who attempted to invade his premises on Friday morning.

Since the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) launched the country’s first and only COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit, a total of 56 patients have passed through that unit.

The incumbent APNU+AFC yesterday claimed that there was  “a carefully orchestrated plan to oust a legitimately elected government and to im-plement regime change”, a contention which has been dismissed by the PPP.

Arsonists this morning attacked the Guyana Human Rights Centre, the latest of a spate of such attacks in recent weeks.

The incumbent APNU+AFC today claimed that there was  “a carefully orchestrated plan to oust a legitimately elected government and to implement regime change”, a contention which has been dismissed by the PPP.

The Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) today said that it held a Lethem resident yesterday suspected of smuggling 251 cases of beer.

The Audit Office of Guyana is currently in the first stage of auditing COVID-19 spending by the caretaker APNU+AFC administration, including assistance that has been disbursed to both individuals and businesses.

Guyana’s Court of Appeal is set to rule on Thursday on the challenge brought by Misenga Jones to prevent the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) from using the results of the national recount of the votes cast at the March 2nd elections to declare a winner.

Fifty-five-year-old Roger Martindale, the country’s latest novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) fatality, was being treated for tuberculosis (TB), which he was diagnosed with just months ago.

A 40-year-old man died yesterday afternoon after a crash along the Montrose Public Road, on the East Coast of Demerara.

Guyana has adopted the updated World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations on the release of asymptomatic COVID-19 patients from isolation while still testing positive.

By Stanley Greaves  The Compact Oxford dictionary states that art is “The expression of creative skill in a visual form such as painting and sculpture”.

Approaching three years since the United States placed a ban on catfish imports from Guyana, the government here is still to comply with regulatory requirements and fishing businesses have had to downscale or export to Canada while they await the reopening of the lucrative New York market.

Eight new cases of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) were confirmed by the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) yesterday.

Two weeks after being discharged from the Kumaka District Hospital isolation facility, the Secretary of the Santa Rosa Village Council Zebedee Williams is still suffering from the mental effects of being a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patient and he is encouraging persons to continue adhering to precautionary measures and rules that have been instituted for their protection.

Still reeling from the fallout of the closure of the Rose Hall Estate, in Region Six, some East Canje, Berbice residents say the effects of the current COVID-19 pandemic have added to their woes, leaving them in an almost daily struggle to survive.

Up to last Thursday, Region Three (Essequibo Islands-West Demerara) had only five active cases of COVID-19 that originated in the region.

The Small Business Bureau (SBB) has assisted approximately 49 local small businesses that were affected by COVID-19 with relief grants amounting to a total of $7.7 million sourced from the bureau’s own accounts.