Guyana News

Thirteen Dental Surgeons recently graduated from the University of Guyana’s School of Medical Sciences with their Bachelor’s in Dental Surgery.

An East Canje, Berbice poultry farmer died  after he lost control of his vehicle and slammed into the New Amsterdam arch located along Main Road during the wee hours of yesterday.

The Council for Technical and Vocational Education Training (CTVET), Learning Corp and ExxonMobil on Friday announced that the three entities have developed a partnership to train lecturers, instructors and students from various technical institutions on basic industrial safety.

A man who was arrested by Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) officers at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri has been remanded after he denied trafficking cocaine which was found in fried rice.

Justice Sandil Kissoon yesterday sentenced the two remaining convicts in the 2016 Black Bush Polder triple murder to life in prison without parole.

Pascal Smith who had been accused of the 2017 murder of John Houston, was on Friday discharged of the capital offence after Justice Brassington Reynolds upheld a no-case submission in his favour.

Two men were yesterday remanded to prison after they were charged with damage to property and simple larceny over the raiding of a tomb at Hampshire Cemetery, Corentyne.

Two unvaccinated persons are the latest fatalities from COVID-19. This takes the death toll from the pandemic to 1,213.

The Chairman and Board of Directors of Banks DIH Limited on Friday announced the recent appointment to the Board of Directors of Banks DIH Limited, of Gavin Todd, as Operations and Engineering Director.

A variety of medical training programmes targeting young Guyanese will soon be commencing.

Lloyd’s Register (LR) and MatPal Marine Institute Inc. yesterday announced that they have entered into a Memorandum of Under-standing (MoU) to jointly support safe maritime training in Guyana.

JR Ranch Inc., a local company that has interests in the construction, security and real estate sectors, has announced a name change to Condor Consortium Inc.

A mason was yesterday sentenced to six months in jail after being on remand for a robbery he confessed to last September.

The police in Berbice have arrested two men who are accused of stabbing two other Corentyne men outside of a wedding house in Number 69 Village, Corentyne, during the wee hours of Sunday.

A Mon Repos Market jeweller was yesterday robbed of a quantity of gold jewellery by three bandits, one of whom was armed with a firearm.

SBM Offshore on Thursday announced that Guyanese business and finance specialist Martin Cheong will be appointed to the post of General Manager of SBM Offshore Guyana, effective March 1, 2022.

Former taxi driver Faizal Bacchus now awaits sentencing after pleading guilty to the 2015 killing of proprietor of the Regent Multiplex Mall Ganesh Ramlall, who was popularly known as ‘Boyo.’

A search and rescue mission was underway yesterday for three fishermen after their Noble House Seafoods trawler capsized on Saturday morning some 18 miles off the Mahaicony Coast.

More than a year after it first saw the IHS Markit audit of the US$460m in pre-contract costs claimed by ExxonMobil’s subsidiary, EEPGL, the PPP/C government says it is finalizing queries of “lumped” sums and investigating costs of items such as risers and the process should be completed in weeks.

Project Manager of the Hope Energy Development (HED) Inc, Johan Sydow said that with the incorporation of a solar aspect into the Hope wind farm, they are now in a position to offer power in the vicinity of US$0.07 per kilowatt-hour.