Guyana News

The presence of oil industry vessels in areas that were once profitable fishing grounds for local fishermen has forced them to scope out new grounds resulting in extremely low catches and high overhead expenses.

A Corporal attached to the Special Constabulary was crushed to death yesterday morning after she lost control of her bicycle and fell along the La Penitence Public Road, Georgetown.

A Friendship, East Bank Demerara man was yesterday charged over the murder of two gold miners at Nassano Backdam on Christmas Eve.

Oil and gas co-operation will be one of the items on the agenda when Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro makes an official visit to Guyana later this month.

A Roraima Airways pilot has been suspended and the domestic airline is facing penalties for breaching aviation regulations in the Britten-Norman Trislander  crash-landing at Eccles, East Bank Demerara last August.

A quick response from the New Amsterdam Fire Service last evening saved a multi- million dollar building which houses ANSA McAl and Bhivar in New Amsterdam from going up in flames A sudden fire had started in the upper flat of the building where Bhivar is located.

A Brazilian national was on Sunday robbed of a quantity of gold jewellery and cash along the Puruni trail in Region Seven and the police have since arrested three suspects, who they said confessed to the crime.

Seematie Chandra who was crushed to death on Wednesday under her house at Bonasika had been urged by her mother to relocate from the area.

Some 438 new COVID-19 cases were yesterday recorded and the current active total stands at over 6,000.

An APNU+AFC-sponsored motion was yesterday passed during the Mayor and City Council’s (M&CC) statutory meeting recommending the dismissal of City Engineer Colvern Venture. 

The Guyana Government has issued a Request for Information (RFI) on firms with the capacity to provide engineering, procurement and construction services for 33 megawatts peak (MWp) of solar power.

The Ministry of Education says that there was a high turnout of teachers yesterday despite a call by the GTU for a day of isolation in the face of rising COVID-19 numbers.

A motion on the proposed gas-to-shore project in the name of APNU+AFC MP David Patterson has now been placed on the parliamentary notice paper.

Approximately 25,000 doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine are expected to arrive in Guyana this week.

A 28-year-old man died after the ATV he was travelling on overturned at Nassano Backdam Main Access Road, North West District, Region One on Sunday night.

More progress will be made this year on a swine abattoir, according to a release yesterday from the Ministry of Agriculture.

Minister of Health, Dr Frank Anthony yesterday revealed that approximately 50 samples are expected to be sent for gene sequencing this week to determine if the COVID-19 Omicron variant is present here.

An Edinburgh, East Bank Berbice (EBB) teenager is now in the New Amsterdam Public Hospital in a serious condition after he was involved in an accident along the Gay Park Public Road on Sunday evening.

The Private Sector Commission (PSC) says it is partnering with the government to carry out a massive cleanup exercise of Georgetown on January 15-16, 2022.

Amid a surge of COVID-19 cases, Demerara Bank Limited (DBL) has with effect from today temporarily reduced opening hours at all of its branches.