Guyana News

Ministry of Amerindian Affairs Permanent Secretary Sharon Hicks was yesterday charged with accepting $200,000 as a bribe to process payment requests for the representative of a security firm.

Flying directly from Barbados, InterCaribbean Airways’ inaugural flight touched down at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri (CJIA) yesterday to signal the imminent launch of new flight options for travellers and connectivity to over 13 Caribbean destinations.

President Irfaan Ali yesterday promised the release of a further $100 million for works on the Upper East Bank Berbice main access road at in Mara committed, which has been in a deplorable state for a number of years.

Four years after Xavier Boyal was fatally shot at Puruni Landing, Cuyuni River, the man who confessed to killing him was on Friday sentenced to 15 years in jail for manslaughter.

Following government’s tabling of its proposed Local Content Bill in the National Assembly on Thursday, six years after the discovery of oil offshore, frontrunner for the leadership of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) Aubrey Norton says a wider cross-section of the business community should have been consulted.

Millions of dollars were lost when a joinery at Tuschen Housing Scheme, East Bank Essequibo, went up in flames in the early hours of Friday morning.

Minister of Home Affairs Robeson Benn yesterday announced that a modern 11-storey structure will be constructed as the new Brickdam police station.

A Region Seven miner was yesterday sentenced to eight years in jail for killing a man who reportedly intervened in an argument he and his wife were having.

David Smith, a businessman who pleaded guilty to killing his cousin by stabbing him with an arrow during an argument at a Cuyuni River mining camp, was on Friday sentenced to seven years behind bars.

A phlebotomist has been remanded after a city court heard that she allegedly stole raw gold and other articles amounting to over $1 million from her ex-boyfriend.

Police are probing the murder of a Venezuelan national, who was gunned down on Thursday night at Baramita, in Region One.

The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) on Friday commended the government for tabling of the Local Content Bill in the National Assembly, while maintaining that it would facilitate material benefit to the Guyanese private sector.

A vendor was yesterday remanded after being charged with having over $5 million in cannabis in his home. 

Two more COVID-19 deaths were on Friday recorded along with 23 new cases.

‘Contrary breeze ah mek crow and eagle light on one line!’

The InterCaribbean Airways inaugural flight touched down at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri today.

Guyana today received 55,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines procured through support from Canada. 

After more than sixteen months in office, the PPP/C government yesterday tabled its first oil and gas legislation which will permit, if passed, the withdrawal of the entire amount attributable to the Natural Resource Fund in the first fiscal year and be governed by a Board of Directors (BoD) which it appears will be handpicked by the administration.

Six years after the discovery of oil offshore and more than two years after production began, Guyana’s Local Content Bill was yesterday laid in the National Assembly, setting out the minimum percentage employment and goods and services procurement for locals, while requiring that the data to substantiate the claims be submitted every year.

With the People’s National Congress Reform’s (PNCR) 21st Biennial Delegates Congress set for tomorrow, the party’s Chief Election Officer (CEO) Vincent Alexander is reporting that all systems are in place to ensure a free, fair and transparent elections process.