Guyana News

Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) yesterday met the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers’ Union (GAWU) to assure that workers’ rights would be respected during the transition of the Enmore Packaging Plant into the oil and gas support services sector, but only limited information was provided on the deal struck between government and developer GKB.

As Guyana continues to develop its oil and gas sector, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is reporting an influx in applications for the importation, storage and usage of radioactive materials.

The government is actively considering adopting recommendations made by United States’ Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that there be longer time intervals between the first and second doses of the Pfizer vaccine for males 12 years and over.

The Ministry of Health on Friday reported 58 new confirmed cases of COVID-19.

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) and the Texila American University (TAU) are collaborating to boost the professional development of officers and ranks in the force.

Frontera has announced plans to drill a second exploration well in the Corentyne Block offshore Guyana.

Junior Works Minister Deodat Indar on Friday reassured the families of the three missing Nobel House Seafoods fishermen that authorities are doing all they can to locate the men.

Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) Aubrey Norton has accused the government of stymieing the expansion of the economy through the discrimination of private investors.

The family of Michael Munroe, who tragically died on Thursday evening in a vehicular collision along the Friendship Public Road, East Bank Demerara, remained in shock yesterday at his sudden demise.

Twenty-one-year-old Rahul Ramdyal and Youdesh Persaud of Supenaam, Region Two, are the overall top graduating students of the Essequibo Technical Institute (ETI) in Region Two.

Dancehall star Beenie Man is due to headline what has been dubbed a “Masharama Concert” at the National Stadium tonight.

A Corentyne man was on Friday remanded to prison on a charge of attempted murder following an attack on a Port Mourant labourer who was chopped multiple times.

The attorney for convicted child rapist Colvin Norton, appealing a 28-year sentence, has argued that the medical examination performed on the then six-year-old victim was neither “thoroughly nor properly” done.

A pregnant woman was taken into police custody after she allegedly used a sharp object to slash the face of another woman while at a Church’s Chicken outlet in Rose Hall Town, Corentyne on Thursday.

Two Corentyne women were on Thursday placed on $25,000 bail each after they were charged with the unlawful wounding of a Port Mourant, Corentyne woman, who sustained a chop injury.

Two Guyanese journalists living in the British Virgin Islands (BVI) have been arrested and charged with uttering a forged document and demanding property of the same several months ago.

The decomposed body of a Linden man, who is suspected to have drowned, has been found at the Sue-wanda Backdam, Puruni River, Region Seven.

The Ministry of Finance today reminded the general public that there is no ‘Entrepreneurship Development Funds and Grants programme’ being implemented by the Ministry.

In his Republic Anniversary address on Tuesday, PNCR Leader Aubrey Norton called for the removal of the personal income tax.

While government has pledged to generate new employment opportunities at Enmore, East Coast Demerara, sugar production at the East Demerara Estate (EDE) is over at this point, a source close to the government told Stabroek News yesterday.