Guyana News

Persons wishing to fly out of Guyana may have to wait until late December or early 2021 to do so as this country will not open up to commercial air travel until it is assured that rigid COVID-19 prevention measures are in place and cases here have reduced significantly, says Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) Director (Ret’d) Colonel Egbert Field.

Canadian gold miner, Guyana Goldfields Inc (GGI)  – which runs a large-scale mine in Cuyuni/Mazaruni – is mulling acceptance of a new buyout offer from a foreign-based company.

Ivor Lynch, one of Guyana’s renowned recording artistes who rocked the local scene in the early 1970’s, died at his US home on Monday night at the age of seventy four.

For the third day in succession, no new COVID-19 case was recorded yesterday even as 27 more tests were done within the last 24 hours.

The timetable for the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA), as well as health protocols to be followed during the sitting of exams were released yesterday.

A 36-year-old Lethem resident was arrested yesterday morning after he admitted to smuggling a number of items including forty cases of rum into the country through the illegal Guyana/Brazil border crossing at Mango Grove, Lethem.

An autopsy yesterday on the remains of Sattie Beekharry, the 61-year-old businesswoman who was murdered in her Atlantic Gardens, East Coast Demerara (ECD) home earlier this week revealed that she died as a result of a brain haemorrhage due to multiple trauma to her head.

A West Bank Berbice man was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with murdering his brother last Saturday.

Vendors in the Bourda and Stabroek markets have been vocal about the hardships they continue to face as sales decrease due to the implementation of COVID-19 measures by the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH).

Guyana’s de facto Foreign Minister, Dr Karen Cummings has expressed the view that small economies like Guyana are in need of concessional financing in order to effectively address the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

Linden Mining Enterprise (LINMINE) General Manager Emmet Alves is incensed at the indiscriminate dumping of garbage in key locations in Linden which he blames for stymieing repair works to key bridges in the bauxite-mining community.  

The Amerindian Peoples’ Association (APA) yesterday urged that hinterland students get “constructive redress” before sitting exams in July since these students have had little or no access to learning for almost three months.

Only one of the twelve juveniles who escaped from the Sophia detention centre earlier this month remains on the run while the others are being held at the Kitty Police station while investigations continue.

GECOM recounted 84 ballot boxes today which means that there are only 326 boxes of 2,339 left to process.

(Reuters) – West Indies named a 14-man squad for next month’s proposed three-test series in England, with three players refusing to travel due to the novel coronavirus outbreak, the region’s cricket board (CWI) said today.

With just about 80% of ballot boxes tabulated the People’s Progressive Party/Civic leads the APNU+AFC Coalition by more than 18,000 votes at the General Elections.

Marcus Bisram was yesterday freed for the second time since his extradition to Guyana after the High Court on Monday ruled that the order by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to reopen the preliminary inquiry (PI) into the murder charge levelled against him was unlawful.

The government has announced a two-week extension of the emergency measures that were put initially put in place in early April to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), while also saying that Guyanese returning from overseas would be allowed to quarantine themselves at home for a mandatory seven days. 

Another series of allegations from the APNU+AFC about irregularities at the March 2nd general elections has fallen apart after facing scrutiny yesterday.

The Ministry of Education yesterday announced that the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) examinations will be held on July 1st and July 2nd and the heath guidelines are expected to be released today.