Guyana News

Eight members from the uniformed branch of the Presidential Guard Unit (PGU) recently tested positive for the coronavirus.

A Corentyne pedal cyclist died after he was struck by a hire car along the Princetown Public Road, Upper Corentyne yesterday.

A teenager who was shot on March 6th with pellets by a police rank during the Bush Lot Village protest over the elections result is still awaiting surgery. 

Police have arrested a third suspect in connection with the murder of security guard Margaret Dawson, whose battered body was found in Le Repentir Cemetery on Monday morning.

The nursing supervisory department at the West Demerara Regional Hospital (WDRH) has confirmed that the hospital is indeed experiencing intermittent water shortages after a complaint was made to this newspaper.

A father of four was yesterday ordered by Magistrate Sunil Scarce to do community service for breaching the national COVID-19 curfew.

The application for a relief flight to repatriate citizens of the United States who are marooned here due to COVID-19 travel restrictions is still being looked at, Director General of the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) Egbert Field clarified on Tuesday.

As result of the presence of Covid-19 in Guyana, the Presidential Guard Unit in conformity with the guidelines given by the Ministry of Public Health conducted random testing on ranks within the department. 

ExxonMobil Guyana President Rod Henson will be leaving Guyana in the coming months to take up a new post as Vice President, Wells, for ExxonMobil in Houston, with responsibility for all drilling activities around the world.

After adding two workstations, the Guyana Elections Commission was yesterday able to raise its daily total for recounted ballot boxes to 76.

According to PPP General Secretary Bharrat Jagdeo there must be a political motive behind a decision by President David Granger to prevent the Carter Center and the International Republican Institute (IRI) from returning to Guyana to observe the recount of votes from the March 2nd general elections.

An M4 rifle and a Tech 9 pistol with an ammunition magazine allegedly destined for Guyana were recently seized at the Miami International Air-port as was more than six pounds of marijuana secreted in cereal boxes, cans of crackers and an iced tea container.

Former presidential advisor on petroleum Jan Mangal has expressed shock that ExxonMobil has flared over 2 billion cubic feet of natural gas offshore and said that he had insisted in 2018 that there be no flaring and that gas be brought to shore for electricity, fertilizer and other uses.

Guyana’s confirmed COVID-19 cases are now at 125 as one new case has been recorded based on the latest testing.

Even though there are currently over 100 persons currently in self-quarantine in Region Nine, after they were in contact with the region’s first, and thus far only confirmed COVID-19 case, the National COVID-19 Task Force (NCTF) has denied a request by regional authorities to institute a regional lockdown.

US Ambassador to Guyana Sarah-Ann Lynch yesterday took part in a handover ceremony at the Civil Defence Commission (CDC) Headquarters, where cleaning and hygiene supplies were donated in order to help combat the COVID-19 pandemic.

The family of a West Coast Berbice man are still seeking answers about his mysterious disappearance in August, 2000, and are now pleading with investigators to reopen the case. 

A young boy of Guyanese heritage was reunited with his family in New York last week after he was hospitalised for what is being called a ‘shock syndrome” linked to COVID-19.

Donald Sheriff, who was recently arrested over the fatal beating of a fellow Berbice resident, was yesterday remanded to prison on a murder charge.

Through a farm-down agreement with Malaysian company, PETRONAS – Petroliam Nasional Berhad (National Petroleum Limited), ExxonMobil has bought some 50 per cent of participating interest in the Suriname offshore Block 52 which is in range of its Guyana’s Stabroek Block offshore oil basin where it has already made 17 discoveries.