Guyana News

This year, $743.7m will be spent to develop the fisheries sector which has been plagued by low catches and other challenges, Minister of Finance Dr Ashni Singh said yesterday during the presentation of the 2022 budget.

Tavita Natasha Lall continued yesterday to battle for her life at the Georgetown Public Hospital after she was allegedly set alight by her common-law husband on January, 14, at their house in Number 64 Village, Corentyne, and her mother is in desperate need of assistance as she cannot afford to travel every day to the city to look after her daughter Lall, 42, a cleaner at the Tagore Memorial Secondary School, sustained burn injuries from her nose all the way to her legs.

Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh this afternoon announced income tax relief.

Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh today announced an increase in the old age pension and public assistance payment.

The 2022 budget today announced $180m in support for dialysis patients.

The 2022 budget speech delivered by Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh today announced that the excise tax rate on gasoline and diesel will be cut immediately from 20 to 10 percent.

Tax relief was this afternoon announced in the 2022 budget on the import of new motor trucks, haulers, pickups and other equipment.

Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh today announced that Guyana expects to earn a whopping US$957.6m from oil this year.

The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) today said that one of the Caterpillar Units at the Company’s Anna Regina Power Plant caught fire this morning.

Joseph Harmon has resigned as Leader of the Opposition. The move today came after he had come under swingeing pressure to demit office and to make way for the new PNCR Leader Aubrey Norton.

President Irfaan Ali yesterday announced that today’s  budget will address the cost of living, inject massively into health care, cut taxes on pickups and make it easier for ownership of modern trucks.

An agreement signed yesterday between the Governments of Guyana and China will see the transforming of  Joe Vieira Park on the West Demerara.

PNCR Leader Aubrey Norton was yesterday elected Chairman of A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) after former President David Granger stepped down from the post but Norton appeared no closer to getting into Parliament and being anointed Leader of the Opposition.

A 14-year-old girl is suing the State for in excess of $25 million in damages for what she said was her unlawful detention at the East La Penitence Police Station where she alleges being “subjected” among other things, to “sexual predatory advances” by  female adult prisoners.

Amendments to the Power of Attorney Act aimed at fighting property fraud were on Monday night passed in the National Assembly with support from the opposition.

The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) yesterday conducted training for members of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) and the Guyana Prison Service on human rights.  

The National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute (NAREI) says it will be monitoring the removal and subsequent restoration of approximately 240m2 of mangroves and cordgrass at Ogle, East Coast Demerara as part of Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited’s (EEPGL) Fibre Optic Cable Project.

A Corentyne woman is now critical in the George-town Public Hospital after she was allegedly badly burnt by her common law husband two Fridays ago.

A policeman was yesterday placed on $100,000 bail after being charged in the George-town Magistrate’s Court with attempting to pervert the course of justice.

Dear Editor, On its present trajectory January is on target to become the third deadliest month during the pandemic in Guyana.