Guyana News

Junior France, the licensed firearm holder who allegedly shot and killed a 17-year-old miner two Sundays ago at Puruni Landing, Mazaruni River has been charged with murder and remanded to prison.

A miner, who was arrested on Sunday night after the police unearthed a quantity of narcotics in the ceiling of his house, was yesterday released on a sum of $175,000 bail after he was charged.

A 42-year-old labourer was yesterday placed on $75,000 bail after he denied having in his possession a quantity of narcotics on Sunday night.

GECOM Commissioner Sase Gunraj this evening said that 82 ballot boxes were recounted today from the March 2nd general elections.

An 11th death as a result of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) was disclosed today and the Department of Public Information identified the victim as fifty-nine-year-old Vincent Torres of the Moruca Sub Region in Barima-Waini.

The Transitional Management Committee (TMC) of the University of Guyana today said that UG is not demanding tuition fees from students at this time.

ExxonMobil’s flaring of over nine billion  cubic feet of natural gas could have been avoided had a proposed  gas-to-shore pipeline project been implemented but it was stalled because a plan to determine the best location was rejected by government officials as some wanted to handpick a site, former Petroleum Advisor Jan Mangal says.

Shocking video of doctors kicking down the door of a room of a COVID-19 patient at the Isolation Unit at the Diamond Hospital was made public yesterday with patients expressing frustration that despite concerns continually being raised, the authorities continue to pay little heed and take minimal action.

With six counting days left in its original 25-day schedule, GECOM has recounted only 48% of the ballot boxes from the March 2nd general elections prompting deepening concerns about what it will do to expedite the process.

Eight more persons have tested positive for COVID-19, the Ministry of Public Health revealed yesterday.

Two women died over the weekend after being involved in vehicular accidents on the West Coast of Demerara and East Coast of Demerara.

Law enforcement officers on the Corentyne yesterday apprehended a murder suspect who had been on the run for almost four years.

The Banks DIH Group registered an unaudited profit before taxation of $3.48b for the six-month period ended March 31, 2020  compared to $2.98b in the preceding corresponding period, a rise of 16.7%.

With a number of indigenous communities restricting travel to  prevent the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19), some like Micobie and Bonasika are struggling to come to grips with the changed circumstances.

Joining the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, Rubis Guyana Inc is  providing transportation for frontline workers and has also contributed more than $2M as part of its several initiatives aimed at providing relief to persons in need and to ongoing efforts of the Civil Defence Commission (CDC) .

The Competition and Consumer Affairs Commission (CCAC) is advising that domestic online sales are subject to the same in-person sale requirements of the Consumer Affairs Act.

Only 75 ballot boxes were recounted today for a total of 1,124 out of 2,339, according to GECOM Commissioner, Sase Gunraj.

The long-awaited $959m Port Kaituma Regional Hospital was commissioned today by de facto Minister of Public Health Volda Lawrence.

Even with favourable markets, large scale mining of minerals here has suffered major setbacks due mainly to health restrictions put in place to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and this has left hundreds without work.

With one week left in its original 25-day timetable for the recount of votes from the March 2 polls, the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) still has 1,290 ballot boxes to count, an impossible endeavour in the remaining time.