De facto Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo has said that seven of the twelve policing divisions are in full compliance with the emergency measures ordered by de facto Minister of Public Health Volda Lawrence to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
Beds and military field gurneys were on Sunday set up at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall having been selected as one of the facilities to quarantine and treat COVID-19 patients.
Suraj Veersammy, the suspect in the murder of the woman whose battered body was stuffed in a barrel which was found partially submerged in a trench at R and S Street, Belvedere, Corentyne, on Saturday last, has confessed to the crime, police sources say.
A 40-year-old labourer succumbed at a city hospital early yesterday morning, hours after he was stabbed after he attempted to settle a quarrel over loud music between his wife and her sister and huband at Enmore, East Coast Demerara.
Hours after he was arrested for brutally beating his ex-partner more than a month ago at Leonora, West Coast Demerara (WCD), Brian Hutchins escaped from police custody.
A D’Andrade Street, Newtown, Kitty family was displaced yesterday morning after a fire, suspected to have been caused by a kerosene stove, gutted their home.
Major renovation is continuing on the former Ocean View Hotel which has been designated as one of the facilities to treat and quarantine patients diagnosed with the coronavirus as authorities here brace for a surge in cases.
Police have arrested five persons in connection with last Friday’s home invasion at Republic Park, East Bank Demerara (EBD) during which a businessman and his family were robbed of over $1 million in cash and gold jewellery.
Three masked bandits, one armed with a gun and the others armed with a cutlass each, pounced on a Blairmont family on Sunday evening and escaped with cash and jewellery.
The Police say they are investigating the murder of Albert ‘Soldier’ Raghu, age
40 years, a labourer of Lot 218 Hope West, Enmore, ECD which occurred at the said address allegedly by a 29-year-old housewife and her 40-year-old husband , both of whom have been arrested and are cooperating with investigators.
Guyana’s economy could be pegged back by risks generated by the incomplete general election and the rampaging coronavirus, according to the World Bank’s latest semiannual report which also has more modest figures for growth of GDP in the next three years.
Six weeks after the March 2nd general elections, a crisis triggered by a rigging attempt in GECOM to hand victory to the incumbent APNU+AFC rumbles on with the way forward resting heavily with the Chair of the electoral body, Justice (retired) Claudette Singh.