Guyana News

Despite a high-level meeting, the feud in APNU+AFC over who will be the Leader  of the Opposition rumbled on yesterday with former President David Granger insisting that he should remain the Representative of the List and retain the power to decide the parliamentary lineup.

Eight APNU+AFC MPs were yesterday sent to the Privileges Committee of Parliament over the chaos that gripped Parliament on December 29 but a similar motion from the opposition was deferred over what was declared to be a procedural error leaving its Chief Whip accusing the Speaker of partial conduct Hours after the Opposition submitted a motion to have over 20 government Members of Parliament (MPs) sent  before the Committee of Privileges, Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Governance Gail Teixeira yesterday counteracted with a similar motion resulting in eight Opposition MPs being sent for a disciplinary hearing.

Reacting to the disclosure by Minister of Natural Resources Vickram Bharrat that the audit of ExxonMobil’s US$460 million in pre-contract costs remains incomplete, APNU+AFC Member of Parliament David Patterson called it “unacceptable,” while questioning government’s approach.

Ravello Tyndall, who is charged with raping three teenage boys, was yesterday remanded to prison after he was arraigned for the attempted murder of one them.

An Albion, Corentyne businesswoman was yesterday robbed of $18.5 million in the vicinity of Republic Bank in Rose Hall, Corentyne, as she was on her way to deposit it.

After more than two hours of debate, the National Assembly yesterday afternoon passed the ground-breaking Human Organ and Tissue transplant bill.

The Ministry of Health yesterday said that as of January 23rd, 2022, four more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

A Holland-based Guyanese woman who had been stranded in Trinidad with her daughter since Saturday as she was not fully vaccinated has since tested positive for COVID which means she will have to remain in quarantine and will not be able to travel to Guyana for her father’s funeral.

Prominent New Amsterdam businessman, Al Haj Hazrat Ali (Syed Hazrat Ali Mobarakhali) passed away at the age of 73 yesterday, his relatives said.

Twelve companies on Thursday submitted information to the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) for pre-qualification for the proposed natural gas-fired power plant and natural gas liquid plant.

A man accused of raping an 11-year-old girl on two occasions back in 2017, was yesterday afternoon acquitted by a jury on both counts of the offence of rape-of-a-child under 16 years.

The U.S. Embassy yesterday announced the 2022 cohort from Guyana for the U.S.

The United States, through the Department of State’s office of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement (INL),  kicked off a six-month programme yesterday to strengthen Guyanese port security and container control. 

A mother of two was yesterday remanded after a court heard that she critically wounded a man with a pair of scissors.

An East Ruimveldt, Georgetown mason was yesterday refused bail after he denied having a gun and live ammunition illegally in his possession. 

President Irfaan Ali yesterday met with United States Ambassador to Guyana, Sarah-Ann Lynch and a team of executives from Bechtel, a huge American engineering, procurement, construction, and project management company.

The Region Two administration in collaboration with the Anna Regina Town Council (ARTC) and the Essequibo Chamber of Commerce and Industry yesterday started a clean-up operation within the township.

The live feed of the 35th sitting of the National Assembly today.

One of the accused who was on trial for the 2016 Black Bush triple murder today pleaded guilty and the court heard that he has said that he  ‘shoot them one, one’ – so as to not leave back any evidence or eyewitnesses of their attempts to steal fuel from

On the eve of today’s National Assembly sitting where disciplinary action is likely against  APNU+AFC members for raucous behaviour on December 29th , the opposition coalition served notice of a motion of no confidence against Speaker of the National Assembly Manzoor Nadir and another to send 22 members on the government’s side to the Privileges Committee for “unparliamentarily conduct”.