Guyana News

A young mother who was denied access to deliver her baby at a private hospital yesterday gave birth in a taxi outside the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation’s (GPHC) Accident and Emergency Unit. 

Fire Chief Kalamadeen Edoo, who is at the centre of an investigation into a number of financial malpractices at the Guyana Fire Service (GFS) headquarters will be proceeding on pre-retirement leave.

Kaieteur News Publisher Glenn Lall has filed an action against government, challenging its petroleum agreement with Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited, CNOOC NEXEN Petroleum Guyana Limited and Hess Guyana Exploration Limited, which he says contains a number of illegalities.

APNU+AFC Member of Parliament, Sherod Duncan was yesterday arrested by the police for allegedly calling the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Information Technology (IT) Manager a ‘jagabat’ and ‘trench crappo’.

Oil platform contractor, SBM Offshore and the National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute (NAREI) on Tuesday officially launched the Annandale/Friendship Mangrove Restoration Project.

Close to 1,200 new COVID-19 cases were yesterday reported and active cases have surpassed 8,500.

Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited has mounted a legal challenge against the Trade Union Recognition and Certification Board’s (TURCB) approval of the Guyana Civil Servants and General Workers Union (GCS&GWU) as the representative body of the institution’s non-management employees.

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) yesterday said that Shemroy Hackett, also known as ‘Dankey’, 27, of Queenstown, Essequibo Coast and Bare Root, East Coast Demerara, is wanted by the police for questioning in relation to the murder of Keyion Devain McLennon.

Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a man, whose body was found lying motionless in a Sandy Babb, Kitty, Georgetown yard on Wednesday morning.

The police are on the hunt for a man who allegedly raped a teenager in September last year.

One of two men currently facing charges over the Wallison Enterprise gold heist was placed on a High Court bail of $450,000.

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has advised the police to charge the rank who allegedly shot and killed Dartmouth businessman, Orin Boston at his home almost four months ago with manslaughter.

Blaming the former APNU+AFC government for the controversial parking meter project which the Georgetown Mayor and City Council (M&CC) failed in its attempt to implement across the city back in 2016, Attorney General Anil Nandlall SC says that the US$100 million lawsuit now slapped against the PPP/C government by concessionaire Smart City Solutions (SCS), is demonstrative of the previous administration’s mismanagement.

Contending that landmark Local Content legislation passed by Guyana for its oil and gas industry appears to violate the CARICOM founding treaty, a regional private sector body is preparing to raise this matter with the government here.

An internal investigation is ongoing into a number of financial malpractices which occurred at the Guyana Fire Service (GFS) headquarters under the watch of Chief Fire Officer, Kalamadeen Edoo.

Government will have access to US$607m to spend this year from this country’s Natural Resource Fund (NRF) as it recently received US$74M on its last 1 million barrels of oil for 2021.

A new report from the World Bank is projecting that based on the current trends and effects of the pandemic, global energy prices are expected to be significantly higher than last year.

The termination of former Chief Election Officer (CEO) Keith Lowenfield’s Personal Assistant, Duarte Hetsberger is attracting some controversy at GECOM.

The police are making efforts to identify and locate a pedal cyclist who was seen using the roadway incorrectly shortly before Police Corporal Dawn Booker was crushed to death on Monday by a truck along the La Penitence Public Road, Georgetown.

A Guyana-born woman, who became the first New York Police Department (NYPD) female Captain from this country, has settled for a US$800,000 payout from the department over claims that a top department commander buried her discrimination complaint before he was caught posting racist messages on an internet bulletin board.