Guyana News

Government yesterday assured that the nominee selected by Parliament to sit on the Natural Resource Fund (NRF) Board will be one supported by both the Opposition and Government side of the House.

Residents of Hadfield Street, Georgetown, are complaining about the neighbouring Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company’s (GTT) generators which are emitting thick smoke in addition to being a noise nuisance.

A number of companies on February 1, 2022, submitted bids for various projects at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB).

A Grade 2 Medic of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) last Friday aided a mother with the delivery of her baby while enroute to the Diamond Diagnostic Centre on the East Bank of Demerara.

The U.S. Embassy in collaboration with the Guyana Council of Organizations for Persons with Disabilities (GCOPD) recently facilitated job prepara-tion training for Persons with Disabilities.  

Some 300 villagers of Issano, Cuyuni-Mazaruni, Region Seven recently benefitted from a medical outreach that involved the US embassy and several NGOs including the California-based group, Guyana Medical Relief (GMR).

Earlier today  between 09:45 hrs and 11:37 hrs, 18-year-old prisoner on remand, Kavin Singh, Lot 291 School Street Grove, East Bank Demerara escaped from the Lusignan Prison Virtual Court compound while attending court.

Shawn Bobb, 27, a construction worker of Lot 252 Independence  Boulevard, Albouystown, Georgetown today appeared in court charged with the murder of his stepson,  Isaiah Edwards, 19.

Minister of Education Priya Manickchand yesterday told the National Assembly that Guyana stands the risk of losing its children if government accedes to the Opposition’s call for schools to be closed, noting that some 70 children got pregnant during the COVID-19 related closures.

A man and his girlfriend died yesterday morning and several others including four police officers were injured after a high-speed chase ended in a four-vehicle accident along the Mahaica Bridge.

Former Minister of Education Dr Nicolette Henry yesterday resigned from the National Assembly, paving the way for recently-elected People’s National Congress Reform Leader, Aubrey Norton to become an APNU+AFC Member of Parliament (MP).

Two more accused who were on trial for the 2016 Black Bush Polder (BBP) triple murder yesterday pleaded guilty hours after Indrawattie Rooplall testified that the accused were friendly with her husband before he and the two others were killed.

Guyana last week received its first lift of oil for 2022 from the Liza-1 FPSO, Destiny with government expecting the highest price per barrel to date given that world prices have surged.

The Ministry of Health yesterday said  that as of February 1st, 2022, five more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

Minister of Human Services and Social Security, Dr Vindhya Persaud on Tuesday told Parliament that the government is looking to place $2.3 billion of disposable income into the hands of pensioners.

Opposition-nominated GECOM Commissioners Vincent Alexander, Charles Corbin and Desmond Trotman have proposed that an internal investigation be launched into the events of the March 2020 general and regional elections.

Opposition Chief Whip Christopher Jones on Monday said that while budget 2022 is the first to include oil revenues, it is full with “big bold promises” and spending but caters “very little” for the working and poor people of the country.

Thirty-year-old miner, Karl Robinson of Imbaimadai, Upper Mazaruni River, was on Tuesday found not guilty of raping a 10-year-old girl back in 2017.

Tenders were on Tuesday opened at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) for the supply and delivery of stationery for programmes at the Ministry of Health along with a number of other projects.

Amidst reports of low catches by fishing communities across the country, Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha on Tues-day countered that fishers had recorded increases in catches for the latter part of 2021.