Guyana News

Guyana’s next lift of a million barrels of oil is expected in May, around the same time the Department of Energy (DoE) projects that the 120,000 barrels of oil per day maximum production will be reached, but revenues received would likely be far less than the US$55M for the first lift given the current market conditions.

The Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) pandemic is affecting the field work of the Environmental Protection Agency, according to its Director Vincent Adams, who has said that the staff is using their time to conduct research and do analyses.

The Guyana Power and Light Incorporated (GPL) is asking that persons avoid kite flying in neighbourhoods and follow COVID-19 safety protocols during their Easter celebrations.

Former presidential adviser on petroleum,  Dr Jan Mangal says that in the current electoral crisis, President David Granger is part of the problem.

With visits to nursing homes now restricted as part of the measures to protect residents from the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) infection, caregivers have turned to technology to ensure their elderly residents are not completely isolated.

Following the restart of its operations here in January this year, Australian miner Troy Resources Limited has produced 4,528 ounces of gold in the first quarter.

The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) yesterday warned that countries in the Americas face potential shortages of blood for transfusions due to a significant decline in voluntary blood donations during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Residents in Little India and Little Africa, Corriverton in Region Six were among those who received COVID-19 relief hampers from the Civil Defence Commission (CDC) yesterday, according to the Department of Public Information (DPI).

Regional Commander of Region 6, East Berbice-Corentyne, Calvin Brutus is warning against the hosting of any event at the Number 63 Beach over the Easter weekend.

Washington Post reporter Darran Simon, who is of Guyanese parentage and lived here as a child, was found dead in his Washington DC apartment yesterday, according to a memo sent by one the newspaper’s top editors.

The number of persons here with the COVID-19 virus rose to 40 today.

Ranks of the Guyana Police Force acting on information received yesterday went to a farm located  at Katuru Village, South Central Rupununi where they conducted a search of a camp owned by a foreign national and found three unlicensed shotguns.

Yesterday, between 03:30h and 15:45h ranks of the Guyana Police Force under the command of a Gazetted Officer  conducted a drug eradication operation in the Berbice River during which four fields of cannabis cultivation were found.

Weeks after criticisms that it was not doing enough testing for the COVID-19 virus, the government is preparing to expand the number of tests done following expert advice.

After an uproar over the proposed 156 days for a recount of ballots from the March 2nd general elections, the opposition-nominated members of the Guyana Elections Com-mission (GECOM) yesterday presented for discussion a counter proposal which would reduce the number of days for the process to 10.

Former Minister of Foreign Affairs Carl Greenidge who gave up his British citizenship following the Caribbean Court of Justice’s ruling on dual citizenship and who President David Granger created a Foreign Secretary post for is no longer with the ministry after “receiving a letter” over a month ago, sources close to him say.

The Ministry of Public Infrastructure has engaged its sister ministry, Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) to begin a contact tracing exercise pertaining to several of its workers, who would have come into contact with veteran engineer, Colonel John Percy Leon Lewis.

A number of persons who were once in institutional quarantine are now cleared to go home as a meeting was held to discuss the use of various medications to treat persons with COVID-19.

Managing Director of Unicomer Guyana Clyde De Haas yesterday said that there are no current plans to cut the salaries of Courts’ employees during the current scale down of operations as a result of the measures taken in response to the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

Major construction work is currently underway at the former Ocean View International Hotel, which was scouted as one of the locations to be set up to house COVID-19 patients.