Guyana News

Nurses attached to the Lethem Regional Hospital are asking for health authorities to intervene as they say they are constantly being verbally abused by the spouse of a medical official.

The Government Analyst-Food and Drug Department (GA-FDD) yesterday advised the public against the importation, distribution, sale and use of a “deceptive, misleading and foreign labelled brand of sweetened condensed milk”  traded as “Nouveau !

While affirming a decision of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) to raise tariffs on “other hydraulic cement” imported into Barbados, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on Wednesday declared that both CARICOM and Barbados failed in their respective duties to conduct prior consultation with the affected importer—Rock Hard Cement Limited.

A planned Black Lives Matter march, which was scheduled to be held in Georgetown yesterday, was postponed after it failed to receive approval from the Guyana Police Force.

Although the police have recently moved to enforce the COVID-19 restrictions on the operations of non-essential businesses, a number of city stores are continuing to operate but with a number of adjustments.

The contempt proceedings filed against District Four Returning Officer (RO) Clairmont Mingo was earlier this morning terminated after attorney Anil Nandlall filed a notice of application to withdraw and discontinue.

St. Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves has said that the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) expects that the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) will honour the results of the national vote recount from Guyana’s March 2 polls and use them to declare a winner.

A bodywork shop and at least one other building in Lusignan were this morning completely destroyed by fire.

Following discussions with President David Granger yesterday about the state of the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo), the Ministry of Finance (MoF) last evening said that it could not assist the Corporation with a financial bailout as it did not have the funds to do so.

PPP/C presidential candidate Irfaan Ali yesterday said he had gotten assurances from Police Commissioner Leslie James that state assets will be protected in the transition between governments and that any unrest in the aftermath of the declaration of results from the March 2nd general elections will be addressed.

A 22-year-old man was shot and killed yesterday afternoon by a licensed firearm holder at One Mile, Wismar, Linden.

As he signalled a role for himself in the next government, former two-term President and PPP General Secretary Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday said that the constitution provides that PPP/C presidential candidate Irfaan Ali should be declared the winner based on votes gained.

Addressing concerns about its volume of natural gas flared to date, ExxonMobil yesterday assured that it was working fervently to fix problems with its compressor equipment offshore and said that the lessons learned will be applied to its next Floating Production Storage and Offloading vessel, as well as future projects.

Guyanese singing star, Eddy Grant, has added his voice to the ongoing protests over the killing of an African-American man by a cop in the United States but says that while black lives have always mattered, it has only become fashionable because white people can now hang their own personal grouses alongside black people who have genuine grouses.

Region Seven-based  Guyana Goldfields Inc (GGI)  yesterday announced that it has received notice from fellow Canadian miner Silvercorp Metals Inc that Silvercorp will not exercise its right to match the offer received from a foreign-based multinational mining company  announced on June 3, 2020 to acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of GGI not already owned by the New Offeror at a cash price of C$1.85 for each Common Share by way of a plan of arrangement.

No new Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) case was reported yesterday. The total number of positive cases in the country remains at 156 while the number of active cases has now decreased to 52.

The body of a labourer was pulled from the Canal Number Two conservancy on Tuesday morning, two days after he went missing on Sunday afternoon after he had gone for a swim.

While identifying Clonbrook, Mahaica on the East Coast of Demerara, as the best location for bringing natural gas to shore for domestic use, a 2017 desk study done for the APNU+AFC government put the cost of doing this at US$304 million at least.

Following its closure for nearly nine weeks due to the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) restrictions, the City Mall reopened last week and those concessionaires who have resumed selling say business has been slow.

A temporary road in the North Rupununi has become impassable due to a flash flood and the Ministry of Public Infrastructure (MPI) has advised persons travelling to Region Nine to make use of the recently commissioned road, which runs through Nappi.