Guyana News

Holland-based Guyanese, June Ann Gravesande has aborted travel plans to Guyana after testing positive for COVID-19 in Trinidad and Tobago where she had been stranded since Saturday.

Seven persons including a teenager are now in custody in connection with the robbery committed on an Albion, Corentyne, businesswoman on Monday morning in front of Republic Bank at Rose Hall, Corentyne.

The Ministry of Health yesterday said that as of January 24th, 2022, ten more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

Efforts to have at least two of the five newly installed generators at the Guyana Power and Light’s Garden of Eden facility back online by yesterday did not succeed and  Chief Executive Officer Bharrat Dindyal said they are currently reassembling one.

A man who police say had 31 grammes of marijuana in his possession for the purpose of trafficking was on Monday released on $30,000 bail. 

The Ministry of Health today said  that as of January 24th, 2022, ten more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

Guyana went down by two points with a score of 39 and ranking of 87 out of 180 countries in the latest Transparency International (TI) Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) Report 2021 released today – the first full year of the PPP/C’s new term in office.

Despite a high-level meeting, the feud in APNU+AFC over who will be the Leader  of the Opposition rumbled on yesterday with former President David Granger insisting that he should remain the Representative of the List and retain the power to decide the parliamentary lineup.

Eight APNU+AFC MPs were yesterday sent to the Privileges Committee of Parliament over the chaos that gripped Parliament on December 29 but a similar motion from the opposition was deferred over what was declared to be a procedural error leaving its Chief Whip accusing the Speaker of partial conduct Hours after the Opposition submitted a motion to have over 20 government Members of Parliament (MPs) sent  before the Committee of Privileges, Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Governance Gail Teixeira yesterday counteracted with a similar motion resulting in eight Opposition MPs being sent for a disciplinary hearing.

Reacting to the disclosure by Minister of Natural Resources Vickram Bharrat that the audit of ExxonMobil’s US$460 million in pre-contract costs remains incomplete, APNU+AFC Member of Parliament David Patterson called it “unacceptable,” while questioning government’s approach.

Ravello Tyndall, who is charged with raping three teenage boys, was yesterday remanded to prison after he was arraigned for the attempted murder of one them.

An Albion, Corentyne businesswoman was yesterday robbed of $18.5 million in the vicinity of Republic Bank in Rose Hall, Corentyne, as she was on her way to deposit it.

After more than two hours of debate, the National Assembly yesterday afternoon passed the ground-breaking Human Organ and Tissue transplant bill.

The Ministry of Health yesterday said that as of January 23rd, 2022, four more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

A Holland-based Guyanese woman who had been stranded in Trinidad with her daughter since Saturday as she was not fully vaccinated has since tested positive for COVID which means she will have to remain in quarantine and will not be able to travel to Guyana for her father’s funeral.

Prominent New Amsterdam businessman, Al Haj Hazrat Ali (Syed Hazrat Ali Mobarakhali) passed away at the age of 73 yesterday, his relatives said.

Twelve companies on Thursday submitted information to the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) for pre-qualification for the proposed natural gas-fired power plant and natural gas liquid plant.

A man accused of raping an 11-year-old girl on two occasions back in 2017, was yesterday afternoon acquitted by a jury on both counts of the offence of rape-of-a-child under 16 years.

The U.S. Embassy yesterday announced the 2022 cohort from Guyana for the U.S.

The United States, through the Department of State’s office of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement (INL),  kicked off a six-month programme yesterday to strengthen Guyanese port security and container control.