Guyana News

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.

A 20-year-old motorcyclist yesterday died after he collided with a lamp post while riding in Bartica.

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.

The Police say they are investigating a fatal accident which occurred yesterday about 9 am on  the  No.

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.

Since its last update on Saturday, the Ministry of Public Health today said that the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases has risen from 45 to 47.

The Police say they are investigating a fatal accident which occurred today about 9 am on  the  No.

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.

Police in Berbice yesterday arrested the suspect in the murder of an unidentified woman whose battered body was found stuffed in a barrel which was found partially submerged in a trench at R and S Street, Belvedere, Corentyne, on Saturday. 

A forty-year-old labourer of Lusignan Railway Embankment, ECD, was caught yesterday about 6.30 am in the act of attempting to throw a bag containing two cellular phones, one hundred and four grams of suspected cannabis and other items into the Lusignan Prison compound.

Region 10 (Upper Demerara/Upper Berbice) today said that a COVID-19 test on a six-year-old girl who died after breathing problems came back negative.

The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) yesterday said that it had dispatched a letter to Minister of Public Health Volda Lawrence expressing concern about the confidentiality of testing for the coronavirus and quarantine procedures.

Over 30 Guyanese have reportedly died from the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in New York City, according to a “partial” list from the Consulate General of Guyana in New York. 

Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo yesterday announced that the government has granted permission to private health facilities to conduct testing for the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and to treat confirmed cases. 

Guyana is expecting to soon receive some 30,000 masks and other essential equipment, including ventilators, from China to aid in the country’s fight against the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19).