Guyana News

Guyana’s High Court has awarded Eureka Medical Laboratories Inc (EML) a $62.4 million judgment against United States offshore medical provider, RemoteMD LLC, after that company packed up business here and filed for bankruptcy in its home country, leaving over $100 million owed to locals for the third party services it received.

Although elated with being provided with a new road, residents of Bamia Drive in Amelia’s Ward, Linden, who questioned its durability as well as the walkway and drainage infrastructure were assured by Minister of Public Works Juan Edghill,  that the works are sound.

The construction company which had been working on the Parika Market when it went up in flames will rebuild it at no additional cost to the government, according to the Minister of Local Government, Nigel Dharamlall.

The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) yesterday said that the Blair-mont Estate has utilised the good weather conditions over the last seven days to surpass its weekly sugar production target, ending March 25, 2023, by 12%.

Four years after reports of the sighting of an abandoned helicopter on Mount Ayanganna, there has been no word from the past or present government on any reports or investigation to determine how the chopper got there.

The Ministry of Agriculture’s National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) is taking Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton to task for what it describes as an erroneous claim made concerning a koker and channel at Vergenoegen, East Bank Essequibo.

As part of its efforts to reduce the overcrowding at the Kato Secon-dary School in Region Eight, Minister of Education Priya Manickchand has announced that a modern secondary school will be built in another village, Kopi-nang and will cater for students from within that catchment area.

Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit  (CANU) officers yesterday intercepted a male carrying a haversack on the Zeeburg Public Road, East Bank Essequibo (EBE).

The Private Sector Commission (PSC), on Thursday, March 23, 2023, met with the Chief Election Officer Vishnu Persaud to discuss preparations for Local Government Elections (LGE).

Declaring that constitutional commissioners enjoy security of tenure and can only be removed in accordance with the set procedure, Justice Gino Persaud yesterday ruled that President Irfaan Ali had acted unlawfully and ultra vires of the constitution in suspending the Chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC), Paul Slowe and several commissioners.

Although there are many questions yet to be answered, the Guyana Police Force (GPF) believes that 68-year-old Roma Dookeran, the Canada-based Guyanese whose body was found along Uniform Beach on Leguan Island a week ago was murdered.

Environmentalist Simone Mangal-Joly says that the data on which the decision was made by the EPA to waive an impact study for the 300-megawatt natural gas-fired power plant was deeply deficient and does not include critical information on potential impacts of the project.

The Guyana Police Force is now probing two separate shooting incidents in Sophia which have left two persons hospitalized with a number of gunshot wounds and which may have some connection with two murders.

The grandson of 89-year-old Russell Street, Charlestown resident, Patricia Bovell is likely to be charged with murder, according to a police source.

Police are continuing their investigations into the incident where a teacher armed herself with a cutlass during an altercation with a parent and a student at Houston Secondary School on Thursday.

Attorney General (AG), Anil Nandlall has fired the latest salvo in the public exchange with the Co-President of the Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA), Mike McCormack, where he sought to highlight that the allegation that the GHRA was not in “Good Standing” was indeed factual while asserting the government’s right to respond to criticism.

The Opposition at a press conference on Thursday called for the Vergenoegen koker to be fixed as according to them during a recent visit residents complained bitterly about it  and the heavily silted canal which leads to flooding.

A family of six at Cotton Field, Region Two is now faced with the uphill task of having to start all over again after their house was completely gutted by fire on Monday afternoon.

The Ministry of Education’s Radio Station, EDYOU FM has made history by becoming the first local station in Guyana to broadcast in Kamarang and other parts of the Upper Mazaruni, Region 7.

A crew from the Ministry of Housing and Water yesterday began demolishing unoccupied houses at Parika Sea dam.