Guyana News

A father of four died after he lost control of his hire car on Tuesday night at La Belle Alliance, Essequibo Coast and ended up in a nearby trench.

The Police say they are investigating an incident along the Soesdyke-Linden Highway near Splashmins yesterday where a piece of wood fell off of a truck and came into contact with the windscreen of a minibus, damaging it in the process.

The Guyana Livestock Development Authority (GLDA) conducted a second simulated outbreak of the High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza (HPAI) – commonly known as ‘bird flu’ yesterday at an Agriculture Extension Centre in Kuru Kururu.

Fawazz McRae, the 27-year-old businessman of Central Amelia’s Ward, Linden, who was arrested on 2023-03-12 for allegedly shooting 32-year-old Police Sergeant Jermaine Semple to the head, was today remanded to prison after he appeared in Court to answer to the charge.

Citing increased reinsurance rates to the Caribbean market, the Insurance Association of Guyana (IAG) today said that property premium rates will rise on all new applications with effect from April 1st, 2023.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Food and financial services group GraceKennedy Limited is looking towards Guyana as its next insurance market and eyeing other business prospects in the nascent oil economy, where it has been in a years-long battle with the tax authorities.

A father of four died after he lost control of his hire car and ended up in a nearby trench.

The Government is insisting that it sought the approval of the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) regarding its sole-sourcing of the US$34 million e-governance contract while asserting that it was a project under national security, sources say.

A Fort Wellington Secon-dary School teacher is now nursing injuries about his body after he was attacked and beaten by a student, the student’s uncle and several of his friends on Monday opposite the school.

Although faced with some unfortunate circumstances, second-time mother, Christine Hope, is grateful for her healthy boy triplets whom she gave birth to on February 28 at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

The Ministry of Natural Resources (MoNR) yesterday announced the release of the draft Model Petroleum Agreements for both the deepwater and shallow-water area, and the commencement of a fourteen-day consultation period before finalisation.

For what is now the tenth time since a quorum change, a Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament meeting was on Monday cancelled after government members were a no-show due to other commitments.

The Women & Gender Equality Commission (WGEC) says it is on a campaign to gather information from persons who have been subjected to gender-based discrimination. 

Over 1500 surgeries were done at the National Ophthal-mology Hospital in Port Mourant, Region Six in 2022.

The Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) has performed yet another first-of-its-kind keyhole surgery, this time on the colon of a cancer patient.

Three days after Bosai bulldozer operator, Neptird Hercules was reported missing in a mining pit collapse, the man and his machine were found yesterday at the East Montgomery Mines in Linden.

In an effort to further boost extension services offered to farmers, the Ministry of Agriculture yesterday received equipment to the tune of US$714,504.

Juan Edghill, Minister of Public Works, represented President Irfaan Ali at the launch last evening of C.S.

Andy Boodram who back in 2018 was sentenced to life in prison for severely wounding  his neighbour Deonarine Persaud, who had asked him to turn down the volume of the music he was playing, has appealed both his conviction and sentence.

The Department of Education, Region Four opened its Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics (STEAM) Fair  yesterday at the Hope Secondary School and 111 schools are participating.