Guyana News

President Irfaan Ali says that schools will not be shut even though the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) has called for a closure due to the surge in COVID-19 cases in the schools.

The People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) has said that it welcomes the suggestion by civil society body, the Electoral Reform Group (ERG), that there is great need for reforms and restructuring at the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM).

The Regional Tender Board of Region Six (East Berbice–Corentyne) breached several sections of the Procurement Act of 2003 when it awarded $615.34 million in contracts in the absence of public tendering, according to Auditor General Deodat Sharma.

As the Georgetown City Council awaits ministerial approval of new fines to tackle littering, Mayor Ubraj Narine yesterday renewed a call for support from central government to develop the capital.

While the National Assembly and the Private Sector Commission (PSC) will be identifying one candidate each for the board of the Natural Resource Fund, President Irfaan Ali will select one and possibly three in his own deliberate judgement, possibly giving him total control over this all-important oversight body.

The opposition APNU+AFC coalition says it is actively considering mounting a legal challenge to government’s “purported” passage of the controversial Natural Resource Fund (NRF) Bill.

A jury was yesterday empanelled for the commencement of the trial of four men who were charged for the 2016 Black Bush triple murder which sent shockwaves throughout the country.

A 31-year-old security guard was critically injured on Tuesday afternoon after she was  attacked by her partner during an argument at their Linden home.

Tenders were on Tuesday opened at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board for  consultancy services for the construction of a number of buildings at various high schools.

A national footballer was denied bail yesterday after being charged with illegally having an Astra pistol in his possession.

Two more COVID-19 deaths were yesterday reported along with 799 new infections.

A prominent attorney and a man are now at the centre of a police investigation after they allegedly offered a witness in a 2016 murder  a “large” sum of money to alter her statement.

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has restarted the production of national identification cards for persons who applied for replacements during the period August to October 2021.

Construction on the new Good Hope Secondary School is now due to be completed in April 2022 instead of August 2021 as was previously determined, according to a Ministry of Education (MoE) release on Saturday.

Autopsies will be performed tomorrow on the bodies of Nicholas Low-a-Chee and Elizabeth Sasha Low-a-Chee, the couple who were discovered dead in their Sarah Johanna, East Bank Demerara (EBD) home following a suspected murder/suicide.

As of yesterday, the High Court in Georgetown and its offices will remain closed until next Monday—January 10th—to effect sanitization “as a precautionary measure given exposure to the Covid-19 virus.”

A Linden man was on Monday remanded after being charged with the attempted murder of a Community Policing Group member who went to arrest him for the alleged rape of a child under 16 years of age.

The Public Accounts Committee of Parliament has settled on five names for the new Public Procurement Commission and these names are to be tendered to Parliament for approval, sources say.

Almost 800 new COVID-19 infections were reported today. This is according to the Minister of Health, Dr.

ExxonMobil today said it made two oil discoveries at Fangtooth-1 and Lau Lau-1 in the Stabroek block offshore Guyana.