Guyana News

Head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Kemraj Parsram on Mon-day confirmed that his agency is currently reviewing Schlumberger Guyana Inc’s renewed application to operate a radioactive (RA) source storage and calibration facility at Houston on the East Bank of Demerara.

With the country not being able to maintain a consistent supply, a Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) expert has been working with local cherry farmers to boost output.

A 44-year-old Wismar, Linden businessman was found with 2063.8 grams of suspected marijuana after a search was conducted in his home on Monday at about 14:00 hours.

Kester Guilliams, a 28-year-old man of Lot 61 Bent Street, Wortmanville, Georgetown, allegedly drowned during a creek outing with friends on Sunday at about 16.19 hours, along the Soesdyke-Linden Highway.

Following a hearing at the High Court in Berbice yesterday, bail was refused by Justice Navindra Singh for a Vryheid, West Canje Berbice businessman who was charged with attempted murder on February 1st.

The Ministry of Health  yesterday said that as of February 13th, 2023, one more person who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has died.

Justice Simone Morris-Ramlall on February 3rd acquitted two men accused of attempting to murder a security guard during a 2016 robbery of the Electronics City store located in the Fogarty’s Building.

Three US Peace Corps Response trainees arrived in the country on February 10, 2023 to begin their 12-months of service here. 

The body of an unemployed man  of Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara was found at his home yesterday.

BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, (Reuters) – Spinner Gudakesh Motie set a new benchmark for West Indies cricket with the best return from a test spinner as he bowled his side to victory, and series success over Zimbabwe, by an innings and four runs in the second test today.

Unicomer (Guyana) Inc, the parent company of Courts, announced today a $25b commercial investment in Demerara, Guyana, earmarked for full completion in the Spring of 2025.

Berbice contractor, Shazad Sattaur will have to remain on remand until his next court appearance after Justice Navindra Singh refused bail at the High Court in Berbice today.

President Irfaan Ali yesterday met with scores of Parika Market vendors who were put out of business by a major fire on Friday and while no official information was forthcoming on the discussions,  some of the attendees said they were offered a sum of $300,000.

Business process out-sourcing (BPO) company Teleperformance is gearing up to launch its second office later this month and the expansion has seen it amplifying its call for workers through multiple social media platforms.

A reportedly intoxicated fisherman of Annandale, East Coast Demerara (ECD) was crushed to death by a car on Saturday evening after he fell from a stall onto the roadway.

The Guyana Press Association (GPA) yesterday bemoaned the attempt by the organisers of the Guyana Energy Confer-ence to restrict  the media’s free access to delegates and other participants of the event scheduled from today to February 17, 2023.

Fluctuating electricity has been blamed as the cause of the fire which claimed the life of Windsor Forest resident Rajendra Mohabir and gutted his property on Sunday afternoon.

A man who last month allegedly assaulted a teacher at the Graham’s Hall Primary School, Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara (ECD), appeared before Magis-trate Alisha George at the Sparendaam Magistrate Court, ECD on February 8th where he was charged with causing actual bodily harm.

It has been almost two weeks since a woman reported being bitten in the creek at the Splashmins Resort reportedly by a piranha,  the second such incident in five weeks at the same facility.

Two persons are now at the New Amsterdam Public Hospital after they were shot at during a fight at New Forest, East Canje Berbice during the wee hours of yesterday.