Guyana News

APNU+AFC Member of Parliament (MP) Sherod Duncan was charged yesterday over derogatory names he called the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Information Technology Manager during his social media talk show last week. 

A 45-year-old pedal cyclist succumbed at a city hospital on Saturday, days after he allegedly rode into the path of a motor lorry along the Parika, East Bank Essequibo (EBE) Public Road.

A Linden resident was shot while his family was robbed of over $400,000 in jewellery and cellphones on Sunday night after armed bandits stormed their home.

A Corriverton man is now at the New Amsterdam Public Hospital after he was stabbed several times about his body after another man intervened in a fight between the victim and his sister.

Attorney-at-law Bernard Da Silva was arrested by the police yesterday for allegedly discharging his licensed firearm while visiting his daughter in Cummings Lodge during last week.

The Institute of Private Enterprise Development (IPED) says its entire family is mourning the passing yesterday morning of business magnate Yesu Persaud.

Today marks six months since Black Bush Polder lost Nathanael Ledra, a young teacher, after he was fatally struck along the Number Three Village, West Coast Berbice Public Road by a Ministry of Finance vehicle which was allegedly making a U-Turn at the time.

The High Commission of India in Georgetown has expressed grief on the passing yesterday of Dr.

One more COVID-19 death was yesterday reported along with 892 new cases of the virus.

Almost a year since he announced that an arbitration bill would have been tabled in the National Assembly before the end of 2021, Attorney General Anil Nandlall SC acknowledges that this has not materialized, and now says that this should be done by August of this year.

The Alliance For Change yesterday extended sympathy to the family of the late Yesu Persaud and described him as a National Hero.

The opposition APNU+AFC yesterday hailed the late businessman, Yesu Persaud as an icon in business and philanthropy “Dr Persaud was a businessman who always distinguished himself with his successful business ventures and highly impactful civic and philanthropic works; he was celebrated for his outstanding contributions to business and philanthropy, in Guyana and abroad”, a statement from the grouping said.

The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) has hailed the late Dr Yesu Persaud for his raising of US$1m to fund a Clinical Education Centre at the institution.

The Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA) says the late Dr Yesu Persaud “truly led a life worthy of emulation, one that will inspire many for generations to come”.

A fire just before midnight on Sunday gutted two bonds controlled by Laparkan Shipping in the Guyana National Industrial Company compound on Lombard Street leaving millions of dollars of losses in cargo and infrastructural damage.

The Private Sector Commission (PSC) today said that it is deeply saddened and shaken at the passing of its Founding Chairman, Dr.

Pioneering businessman Yesu Persaud has passed away, according to President Irfaan Ali.

Former Auditor General Anand Goolsarran has added his voice to the barrage of criticism that has greeted the Natural Resource Fund Act which was rushed through the National Assembly on December 29 by the government without any prior consultation.

CPSO, the regional business body which has raised reservations about the local content law here has never reached out to Guyana’s Private Sector Commission (PSC) or affiliate bodies here and the business community here is questioning its ties with CARICOM “They have never visited Guyana to meet with the Private Sector Commission or approached for local representation.

Wärtsilä engineers arrived here on Saturday and have begun diagnostic testing on malfunctioning generator sets at GPL’s Garden of Eden plant and load shedding will continue until the problem is resolved, Prime Minister Mark Phillips yesterday said.