Guyana News

A mother of two was yesterday remanded after a court heard that she critically wounded a man with a pair of scissors.

An East Ruimveldt, Georgetown mason was yesterday refused bail after he denied having a gun and live ammunition illegally in his possession. 

President Irfaan Ali yesterday met with United States Ambassador to Guyana, Sarah-Ann Lynch and a team of executives from Bechtel, a huge American engineering, procurement, construction, and project management company.

The Region Two administration in collaboration with the Anna Regina Town Council (ARTC) and the Essequibo Chamber of Commerce and Industry yesterday started a clean-up operation within the township.

The live feed of the 35th sitting of the National Assembly today.

One of the accused who was on trial for the 2016 Black Bush triple murder today pleaded guilty and the court heard that he has said that he  ‘shoot them one, one’ – so as to not leave back any evidence or eyewitnesses of their attempts to steal fuel from

On the eve of today’s National Assembly sitting where disciplinary action is likely against  APNU+AFC members for raucous behaviour on December 29th , the opposition coalition served notice of a motion of no confidence against Speaker of the National Assembly Manzoor Nadir and another to send 22 members on the government’s side to the Privileges Committee for “unparliamentarily conduct”.

Still working to pinpoint why newly installed generator sets at the Garden of Eden plant malfunctioned, more Wärtsilä engineers have arrived in the country with the aim of resolving the issue, Guyana Power and Light Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Bharat Dindyal said yesterday.

Despite promises that oil and gas transactions would be transparent and the public would be kept up to date, the audit by UK firm IHS Markit of the US$460M in pre-contract costs claimed by ExxonMobil still has not been released by government and the opposition will today be asking for answers when the National Assembly meets.

Mangroves have begun to spring up on the Malgre Tout/Versailles, West Demerara foreshore where they were destroyed last year to make way for the TriStar Inc oil and gas shore base facility.

A Holland-based Guyanese woman and her three-year-old daughter have been denied entry into Trinidad and Tobago after immigration officials flagged her for failing to meet the country’s COVID-19 entry requirements.

Days after he was named as a nominee of the Public Procurement Commission (PPC), financial analyst Joel Bhagwandin was appointed as the Managing Director of an oil and gas shore base company, TriStar Inc.

The National COVID-19 Task Force (NCTF) is still to make a decision on the sanctions to impose against the organisers of the Futsal Final on January 8th over severe overcrowding and other breaches of  COVID-19 guidelines and protocols.

The Ministry of Health expects to procure the necessary equipment to print digital COVID-19 vaccination cards in the first quarter of this year, Minister of Health, Dr Frank Anthony disclosed recently.

On his weekly Facebook programme ‘Issues in the News,’ Attorney General Anil Nandlall SC said that work aimed at constitutional reform, as well as amendments proposed to the Narcotics Act have already begun.

One person was arrested by police on Friday during a raid at the Stabroek Market which led to the discovery of 478 grammes of marijuana.

The police in Regional Division 4A say they are on the hunt for four identifiable females who allegedly threw a corrosive liquid on a woman on 2022-01-21 at about 20:40 hours at the corner of Norton and John streets.

The U.S. Embassy in Georgetown has congratulated Colonel Raul Jerrick, of the Guyana Defence Force, who was successfully awarded a Master of Arts in Security Studies, with an emphasis on Countering Terrorism from the United States Naval Postgraduate School.

The Ministry of Health today said that as of January 22nd, 2022, four more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

A murder convict who escaped from the Lusignan Prison on June 8 last year, was recaptured last evening.