Guyana News

GTT on Friday urged all subscribers to be vigilant of scammers in light of the company’s recent Christmas promotion and upcoming anniversary promotion.

Prime Minister Mark Phillips has shut down the five dual-fuel power generating sets at GPL’s Garden of Eden power plant, to prevent a looming disaster, the Department of Public Information (DPI) said this evening.

The Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA) today expressed concerns that the absence of the Director from the Food and Drug Department may have had negative consequences on its ability to function.

The Ministry of Health today said that as of January 13th, 2022, six more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

The police constable who allegedly shot and killed Essequibo businessman Orin Boston months at his home last year was today charged with manslaughter and granted $1 million bail.

The Guyana Police Force is investigating the death of a Diamond Housing Scheme man, who was impaled on Thursday at Falcon Drive, Industrial Site, Eccles, East Bank Demerara.

The Private Sector Com-mission (PSC)  yesterday defended Guyana’s local content law and castigated a little known regional business body for suggesting that the legislation might contravene the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas (RTC) which underpins CARICOM.

The opposition PNCR yesterday called on the government to take measures to restrain the rise in the cost of living including the introduction of “temporary price ceilings” and “consumer food subsidies” On Tuesday, President Irfaan Ali, while explaining the reasons behind steadily rising food prices, had frowned upon the idea of implementing price control measures as a cushioning mechanism.

A young mother who was denied access to deliver her baby at a private hospital yesterday gave birth in a taxi outside the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation’s (GPHC) Accident and Emergency Unit. 

Fire Chief Kalamadeen Edoo, who is at the centre of an investigation into a number of financial malpractices at the Guyana Fire Service (GFS) headquarters will be proceeding on pre-retirement leave.

Kaieteur News Publisher Glenn Lall has filed an action against government, challenging its petroleum agreement with Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited, CNOOC NEXEN Petroleum Guyana Limited and Hess Guyana Exploration Limited, which he says contains a number of illegalities.

APNU+AFC Member of Parliament, Sherod Duncan was yesterday arrested by the police for allegedly calling the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Information Technology (IT) Manager a ‘jagabat’ and ‘trench crappo’.

Oil platform contractor, SBM Offshore and the National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute (NAREI) on Tuesday officially launched the Annandale/Friendship Mangrove Restoration Project.

Close to 1,200 new COVID-19 cases were yesterday reported and active cases have surpassed 8,500.

Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited has mounted a legal challenge against the Trade Union Recognition and Certification Board’s (TURCB) approval of the Guyana Civil Servants and General Workers Union (GCS&GWU) as the representative body of the institution’s non-management employees.

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) yesterday said that Shemroy Hackett, also known as ‘Dankey’, 27, of Queenstown, Essequibo Coast and Bare Root, East Coast Demerara, is wanted by the police for questioning in relation to the murder of Keyion Devain McLennon.

Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a man, whose body was found lying motionless in a Sandy Babb, Kitty, Georgetown yard on Wednesday morning.

The police are on the hunt for a man who allegedly raped a teenager in September last year.

One of two men currently facing charges over the Wallison Enterprise gold heist was placed on a High Court bail of $450,000.

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has advised the police to charge the rank who allegedly shot and killed Dartmouth businessman, Orin Boston at his home almost four months ago with manslaughter.