Guyana News

A 24-year-old excavator operator is currently hospitalised at a city hospital after he was allegedly shot and injured by his employer on Friday morning following a misunderstanding.

Armed bandits attacked two farmers and their wives in neighbouring villages on the Corentyne during the wee hours of Friday morning.  

An accident on the Essequibo Coast on Friday afternoon has left a motorcyclist hospitalised in a serious condition.

The Guyana Power and Light Inc. on Friday announced that it has taken the decision to suspend mail delivery for the month due to the difficult logistics of meeting the dates identified by the national post office. 

Following the testing of 22 more persons suspected of having the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), Guyana has recorded no new positive cases.

The second Guyana Trade and Investment Exhibition (GuyTIE), which was to be held next month, has been postponed until further notice.

Two persons, including the driver of a minibus, were taken into custody yesterday morning after the police found a quantity of cocaine and cannabis in the vehicle during a stop and search exercise at Mabura, Upper Demerara River.

Guyana has recorded its seventh novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) death. A release from the Department of Public Information quotes Minister of Public Health Volda Lawrence as having confirmed that the death of the unidentified individual.

The long-awaited recount of votes from the March 2 general elections will be conducted using no more than 10 workstations, according to the Chairperson of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), retired judge Claudette Singh, but it remains unclear when the process will begin and how long it will last.

Vanessa Benjamin, the 21-year-old Ithaca Village, West Bank Berbice woman who was killed on Thursday afternoon, was stabbed over 15 times, her family said yesterday.

Food security in Indigenous villages has become a growing concern for residents as travel restrictions to limit the spread of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and the increased cost of flights have negatively impacted the delivery of basic necessities to the usually remote communities.

Following an official filing by United States lobbying firm JJ&B LLC, which says it was hired by government to change the narrative surrounding the March 2 elections, the Ministry of the Presidency (MoTP) yesterday stated that neither the Government of Guyana nor President David Granger had hired it.

The second largest daily increase in positive novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases here was recorded yesterday even as Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) representative Dr William Adu-Krow said that the curve was slowly being flattened. 

The police are on the hunt for a man who allegedly shot and killed a labourer on Wednesday night at Middle Mazaruni River.

The closure of all schools in Guyana has been extended until further notice, according to the National COVID-19 Task Force.

While warning that its independent modelling of the spread of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) projects 19,500 cases by the end of the first week in May, the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) yesterday said that a fully-empowered government needs to be in place to grapple with the health threat and that this would only be possible with a quick end to the elections crisis through a recount of votes.

A group of Lodge residents, formally known as the Lodge Housing Scheme Beautification Group, yesterday distributed 25 large hampers to vulnerable members of the community in their effort to ease the impact resulting from the shutdown due to the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

Noting that there is sometimes need for attorneys to be in contact with their clients even after regular working hours, the Guyana Bar Association (GBA) has written to the National COVID-19 Task Force (NCTF) requesting that attorneys be classified as essential workers.

A 20-year-old man was on Thursday remanded to prison after he was charged with the murder of Albert Raghu, the Enmore, East Coast Demerara labourer who died after he was stabbed during a quarrel over loud music on Sunday night.

Almost three weeks after he allegedly shot and killed his father during an argument, a Paramakatoi Village pork knocker Dintus John was yesterday charged with manslaughter and remanded to prison.