Guyana News

A teen died on Thursday after he lost control of the motorcycle he was riding and crashed into a parked vehicle along Craig Street, Campbellville, George-town.

The National COVID-19 Task Force on Friday announced the immediate lifting of the national curfew.

Sedley Liverpool, called ‘Birdman,’ the other person who had been accused of the 2015 murder of Mocha mechanic Terrence Lanferman, was yesterday discharged of the capital offence after a no-case submission was upheld in his favour.

Despite the main opposition’s appeal to Speaker Manzoor Nadir for a reconsideration, the suspension of APNU+AFC Member of Parliament (MP) Sherod Duncan was on Thursday formalized by the National Assembly.

Government’s decision to terminate negotiations with the China State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC) raises serious issues of due process, contract evaluation and probity by the administration, the Alliance for Change (AFC) yesterday said.

The Government of Guyana yesterday inform-ed Nautilus Register “ClassNR”, a subsidiary of Aryavart Corporation, that it is to cease all representation of Guyana and its Maritime Administration (MARAD) citing termination of a memorandum of understanding (MoU)  due to breach of contractual negotiations.

A 25-year-old is one of Guyana’s two new COVID-19 deaths. According to the Ministry of Health, the country’s latest deaths have increased the total number of deaths from COVID-19 here to 1,190.

With a national population census due this year, Senior Minister within the Office of the President with responsibility for Finance, Dr Ashni Singh, on Thursday assured that it will proceed and that funds have been budgeted for the process.

Fourteen persons have been displaced after a fire, suspected to have been electrical in origin, destroyed their Corentyne house on Thursday.

A Middle Road, La Penitence youth was on Friday sentenced to nine months in jail after he confessed to stealing a cellphone and money from a fellow worshipper at a Masjid.

A former police constable was on Friday asked to post $75,000 in bail for his release after he was charged with shooting a then colleague in the leg with his service weapon during a row over a missing pair of slippers.

Two young men are now remanded prisoners after being charged over a choke and rob attack on a businessman.

Following complaints, the Guyana Revenue Authority Commissioner Godffrey Statia yesterday confirmed that the tax body has granted permission for sex toys to be imported for personal use.

Only 33% of fire hydrants are fully functional, Minister of Home Affairs Robeson Benn has revealed.

An after action review is currently being conducted in wake of the fire that gutted the two Guyana National Industrial Company (GNIC) bonds and the Guyana National Shipping Corporation Limited (GNSC) building on Lombard Street, Georgetown.

Commissioner of Police (ag) Nigel Hoppie has said the investigation into the accident which claimed the lives of Christopher Bhagwandat and his girlfriend, Sheereda Persaud, at the Mahaica Bridge last week remains ongoing.

Aliyah Thom, 14, of 125 Cow Pen Street, Eccles, East Bank Demerara, who had been missing since Thursday afternoon, has been found.

A Linden man was taken into custody on Tuesday after he was reportedly found with a quantity of suspected cannabis in two Pringles tins at the Eugene F.

ExxonMobil today said it has started production at Guyana’s second offshore oil development on the Stabroek Block, Liza Phase 2, bringing total production capacity to more than 340,000 barrels per day in only seven years since the country’s   first oil find.

The National COVID-19 task Force has announced the lifting of the national curfew with immediate effect.