Guyana News

Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh today announced that Guyana expects to earn a whopping US$957.6m from oil this year.

The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) today said that one of the Caterpillar Units at the Company’s Anna Regina Power Plant caught fire this morning.

Joseph Harmon has resigned as Leader of the Opposition. The move today came after he had come under swingeing pressure to demit office and to make way for the new PNCR Leader Aubrey Norton.

President Irfaan Ali yesterday announced that today’s  budget will address the cost of living, inject massively into health care, cut taxes on pickups and make it easier for ownership of modern trucks.

An agreement signed yesterday between the Governments of Guyana and China will see the transforming of  Joe Vieira Park on the West Demerara.

PNCR Leader Aubrey Norton was yesterday elected Chairman of A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) after former President David Granger stepped down from the post but Norton appeared no closer to getting into Parliament and being anointed Leader of the Opposition.

A 14-year-old girl is suing the State for in excess of $25 million in damages for what she said was her unlawful detention at the East La Penitence Police Station where she alleges being “subjected” among other things, to “sexual predatory advances” by  female adult prisoners.

Amendments to the Power of Attorney Act aimed at fighting property fraud were on Monday night passed in the National Assembly with support from the opposition.

The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) yesterday conducted training for members of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) and the Guyana Prison Service on human rights.  

The National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute (NAREI) says it will be monitoring the removal and subsequent restoration of approximately 240m2 of mangroves and cordgrass at Ogle, East Coast Demerara as part of Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited’s (EEPGL) Fibre Optic Cable Project.

A Corentyne woman is now critical in the George-town Public Hospital after she was allegedly badly burnt by her common law husband two Fridays ago.

A policeman was yesterday placed on $100,000 bail after being charged in the George-town Magistrate’s Court with attempting to pervert the course of justice.

Dear Editor, On its present trajectory January is on target to become the third deadliest month during the pandemic in Guyana. 

Holland-based Guyanese, June Ann Gravesande has aborted travel plans to Guyana after testing positive for COVID-19 in Trinidad and Tobago where she had been stranded since Saturday.

Seven persons including a teenager are now in custody in connection with the robbery committed on an Albion, Corentyne, businesswoman on Monday morning in front of Republic Bank at Rose Hall, Corentyne.

The Ministry of Health yesterday said that as of January 24th, 2022, ten more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

Efforts to have at least two of the five newly installed generators at the Guyana Power and Light’s Garden of Eden facility back online by yesterday did not succeed and  Chief Executive Officer Bharrat Dindyal said they are currently reassembling one.

A man who police say had 31 grammes of marijuana in his possession for the purpose of trafficking was on Monday released on $30,000 bail. 

The Ministry of Health today said  that as of January 24th, 2022, ten more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

Guyana went down by two points with a score of 39 and ranking of 87 out of 180 countries in the latest Transparency International (TI) Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) Report 2021 released today – the first full year of the PPP/C’s new term in office.