Guyana News

Verification of a passenger’s vaccination status and proof of negative COVID-19 antigen or PCR test result is now the responsibility of airlines flying into Guyana, rather than that of the authorities at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri.

Three days after he was involved in a serious accident along the Plaisance Public Road, East Coast Demerara (ECD), motorcyclist Ronaldo Saul-Drepaul succumbed to his injuries at a city hospital.

A 22-year-old taxi driver was on Wednesday remanded to prison after he was charged with robbing a Crane, West Coast Demerara (WCD) businessman of twelve gold chains worth $1.5M.

Police in Region Two are trying to locate a hire car HC 7997 which reportedly stopped for an armed bandit at Anna Regina, Essequibo Coast, who had just had robbed a store of $700,000. 

The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) on Wednesday called on its strategic partners to work together to execute bold and urgent actions to transform the Region’s energy landscape and lay the ground for faster progress towards attaining green energy and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. 

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – California’s attorney general announc-ed yesterday he issued a subpoena to ExxonMobil XOM.N

Currently facing a multimillion dollar libel suit from Senior Superintendent Fazil Karimbaksh, retired Assistant Commissioner of Police and former Chairman of the Police Service Commission, Paul Slowe has been slapped with yet another—like the first—to the tune of $70 million also.

The Police are trying to make contact with a 55-year-old businessman of Harlem, West Coast Demerara who accidentally discharged his firearm, hitting a $1.3 million Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) scanner.

A 14-year-old is now hospitalised after he was involved in a serious accident along the Fyrish Public Road, Corentyne, Berbice, where he was driving a car on Wednesday night.

Days after his arrest, Nigel Abraham was on Wednesday remanded to prison for allegedly murdering his foster son, 17-year-old Daniel Wilson, at Black Water, North West District.

Several persons are in hospital following an accident on the Uitvlugt Public Road, West Coast Demerara last evening.

Minister of Home Affairs, Robeson Benn on Wednesday visited Police Headquarters, Eve Leary and the Ruimveldt Police Station Marine Department to conduct inspections.

A nine-year-old pupil of Tain Primary School, Corentyne, Berbice, was yesterday morning discharged from the Port Mourant Public Hospital after she was struck down by a car on Wednesday night.

Ten new COVID-19 cases were yesterday reported by the Ministry of Health from 1, 077 tests that were conducted.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – California’s attorney general announced today he issued a subpoena to ExxonMobil XOM.N

Police in Region Seven are probing the murder of a 49-year-old Venezuelan woman, whose body was found buried in a shallow grave with multiple chop wounds on Tuesday at Eteringbang Landing, Cuyuni River.

Yardan Jacobs, the labourer who was shot along with his cousin more than a week ago in North Sophia has succumbed at a city hospital.

The Inter-American Com-mission on Human Rights (IACHR), in a landmark ruling, has recommended that the Government of Guyana adopt the necessary measures to ensure that the Region Seven Amerindian village of Isseneru and its members receive “full reparations for the material and immaterial damages they suffered on the account of the violation of their human rights.”

Businessman Nazar ‘Shell’ Mohamed is forging ahead with operationalising Hadi’s World Inc’s Quarry operation in Region Seven, as the company yesterday signed a US$25 million agreement with China Harbour Engineering Company Limited to execute the works there.

Speaking to scores of  potential UK investors, President Irfaan Ali yesterday highlighted opportunities in tourism and cutting the Caribbean’s high food import bill.