Guyana News

A 34-year-old mother and four of her children are suspected to have perished in a fire of unknown origin early this morning at #64 Village, Corentyne Berbice, the police said in a statement.

Local Government Minister Sonia Parag yesterday slammed a plan by the City Council to offer a 25% rates cut to One Communication, formerly GTT.

A fire of so far unknown origin destroyed the Bob and Son Grocery at Strand, New Amsterdam, Berbice, last night.

-Nandlall tells outreach A permanent office of the Deeds & Commercial Registries Authority will be established in Bartica so that residents of Region Seven will no longer have to travel to Georgetown and Essequibo to access these services.

Floyd Haynes, the team lead for the third cost oil audit yesterday said that an auditor whose licence has been suspended by the ICAG had pulled out from the project prior to the submission of the winning proposal because of “scheduling conflicts”.

A spanking new Medical Equipment and Supplies (MGN) service was launched at Block 4 Mainstay, Essequibo yesterday.

Three men are currently in custody following an armed robbery on Wei Gao, a 43-year-old Chinese businessman and owner of ‘Shopping 25’ General Store, located in Block ‘B’ Lethem, Central Rupununi.

The Ministry of Public Works yesterday stated that work to facilitate the construction of the New Demerara River Bridge has started at Clarke Street, Peters Hall, East Bank Demerara.

The government is investing almost $25 million to construct a koker in Baracara along the Canje River to regulate the water level during the dry and rainy periods, the Department of Public Information (DPI) reported on Sunday.

Several members of the Guyana Police Force and Customs officers recently benefited from an in-person training session aimed at tackling the trafficking of new psychoactive substances (NPS) and synthetic opioids.

The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) yesterday queried whether this country has any message for the 29th climate conference which opened in Baku, Azerbaijan yesterday.

The  Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) yesterday announced that 10 scoliosis (irregular curvature of the spine) operations had been successfully done on patients aged 13 to 19.

On Saturday, Agriculture Minister,  Zulfikar Mustapha commissioned a new model farm at Talorgie Village on the Corentyne Coast.

Following the raid by the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) at the Peng Keng Chinese Supermarket on Saturday, a number of shelves that stocked alcoholic beverages were seen empty yesterday.

Thirty-six-year-old Linden businesswoman Omeca Primo, was yesterday further remanded  when she  appeared before Magistrate Faith McGusty in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court facing an additional 54 fraud chargers.

Traffic on the Demerara Harbour Bridge was yesterday afternoon disrupted around 4:10 pm after an oily substance was observed on the bridge’s surface.

The man who triggered concerns in the Marian Academy compound on November 1st when he offered sweets to children was arrested by the police on November 7th and explained that he was a cotton candy seller and had been trying to make sales.

The Chairman of the Station Management Committee,  Mr Rahaman has donated ten reflector vests and ten solar reflectors to the Bartica Police Station’s Traffic Department.

On behalf of the Assuria Insurance Company, Ravindra Roy and  Kevin Allen donated twenty chairs and twenty fans to the Commander of Regional Police Division No.3 Senior Superintendent Khalid Mandall at the Division Headquarters Leonora, West Coast Demerara on Saturday.

-says details to be made public shortly   The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) says that it has signed off on the second cost oil audit which the VHE [Vitality Accounting, Haynes and Ramdihal and Eclisar Financial] consortium had undertaken in 2022 and it will be made public this week.