Guyana News

The United States is helping to build Guyana’s oil spill response capacity  and a virtual risk assessment workshop is set for this month.

Minister of Health, Dr Frank Anthony yesterday  announced that late last year Guyana had introduced a new drug for the treatment of COVID-19 patients and hopes to have another drug here soon to aid in the treatment of persons with mild to moderate COVID-19.

An Onderneeming Phase Two family is still calling for adequate recompense after members of the Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) unit broke into their home and ransacked it last year.

Three men were on Tuesday charged with littering at Wellington Street, Georgetown and released on $40,000 bail each.

An unemployed man who was yesterday charged with unlawfully wounding a man, told a City Magistrate that he was defending his brother and was released on $30,000 bail.

Tenders were on December 29, 2021 opened at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board for infrastructural development works in a number of areas including Meten-Meer Zorg, Onderneeming and Leonora on the West Demerara.

The Ministry of Health (MOH) regrettably informs that as of January 18th, 2022, seven more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

Queen’s College students have won the overall outstanding awards for both the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate 2021 and the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination 2021.

The Ministry of Health will no longer be issuing discharge certificates for persons who were on home isolation after testing positive for COVID-19 and PCR tests will now be used only for a small category of persons.

Residents of Dartmouth on the Essequibo Coast yesterday protested and lit fires on the main road as they contended that the policeman implicated in the killing of shop owner, Orin Boston should have been charged with murder and not manslaughter.

President Irfaan Ali is scheduled to make a working visit to Paramaribo, Suriname tomorrow to meet with the Surinamese President Chandrikapersad Santokhi and the President of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro.

Two teenaged motorcyclists died after they collided on the Karaudarnau Trail, Deep South Rupununi, Region Nine on Monday afternoon.

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo and Attorney General Anil Nandlall SC have been granted leave to appeal to the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), the Guyana Court of Appeal’s ruling that it has jurisdiction to hear the appeal of the dismissal of the Opposition APNU+AFC’s election petition which challenged the results of the March 2nd 2020 general elections.

The People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) says its Central Executive took a decision to withhold support for the government-led cleanup of the city on Saturday and Sunday.

Wärtsilä and Guyana Power and Light (GPL) engineers are close to determining the root cause of the malfunctioning of the newly installed generator sets at the Garden of Eden plant, Minister in the Ministry of Public Works Deodat Indar said.

Fifteen years on, former manager Maurice Arjoon is still engaged in a court battle for severance and other benefits owed by the New Building Society (NBS) which has been found to have wrongfully dismissed him back in 2007.

The trial of Sedley Liver-pool who is accused of killing Mocha mechanic Terrence Lanferman back in 2015, has been set to commence on Monday January 24th, before Justice Brassington Reynolds at the High Court in Georgetown.

With six key positions yet to be addressed along with a work plan for the hosting of the constitutionally overdue Local Government Elections (LGE) and responding to the government’s amendments to the Representation of the People Act (RoPA), the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) spent most its meeting yesterday on secondary matters.

A 23-year-old Region Four man is among five more COVID fatalities.

The People’s National Congress Reform yesterday expressed its deepest sympathy at the passing on Monday of businessman Yesu Persaud.