Guyana News

A national footballer was denied bail yesterday after being charged with illegally having an Astra pistol in his possession.

Two more COVID-19 deaths were yesterday reported along with 799 new infections.

A prominent attorney and a man are now at the centre of a police investigation after they allegedly offered a witness in a 2016 murder  a “large” sum of money to alter her statement.

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has restarted the production of national identification cards for persons who applied for replacements during the period August to October 2021.

Construction on the new Good Hope Secondary School is now due to be completed in April 2022 instead of August 2021 as was previously determined, according to a Ministry of Education (MoE) release on Saturday.

Autopsies will be performed tomorrow on the bodies of Nicholas Low-a-Chee and Elizabeth Sasha Low-a-Chee, the couple who were discovered dead in their Sarah Johanna, East Bank Demerara (EBD) home following a suspected murder/suicide.

As of yesterday, the High Court in Georgetown and its offices will remain closed until next Monday—January 10th—to effect sanitization “as a precautionary measure given exposure to the Covid-19 virus.”

A Linden man was on Monday remanded after being charged with the attempted murder of a Community Policing Group member who went to arrest him for the alleged rape of a child under 16 years of age.

The Public Accounts Committee of Parliament has settled on five names for the new Public Procurement Commission and these names are to be tendered to Parliament for approval, sources say.

Almost 800 new COVID-19 infections were reported today. This is according to the Minister of Health, Dr.

ExxonMobil today said it made two oil discoveries at Fangtooth-1 and Lau Lau-1 in the Stabroek block offshore Guyana.

A ruckus on Christmas Eve between several miners at Nassano Backdam, North West District, ended with two fatalities and two persons being injured, police reported yesterday.

A newly-wed couple was yesterday morning found dead in their home at Sarah Johanna, East Bank Demerara (EBD) with police stating that the matter is being investigated as a murder/suicide.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has appealed the ruling annulling its decision to reassess and impose additional taxes on goods imported by Chinese businessman Shanglin Lin.

The controversial passage of the Natural Resource Fund (NRF) Bill in the National Assembly on December 29, 2021, highlights the desperate need for constitutional reforms as well as the review and updating of the Parliamentary Standing Orders, according to Deputy Speaker Lenox Shuman.

Isaiah Okmie Barclay also known as ‘Blackboy’ of D’Urban Street, Georgetown, and Nigel Bentick of South Ruimveldt, Georgetown, were yesterday each sentenced to 30 months in prison after they both pleaded guilty to robbing a Charity, Essequibo couple.

Guyana exported over $2.5 billion worth of coconut and coconut byproducts last year which represents a $600 million increase compared to the $1.9 billion that was exported in 2020.

Almost 500 new COVID-19 infections were reported yesterday even as health officials say that a further increase could be expected.

The Guyana Manufacturing & Services Association (GMSA) has come out in support of the passing of the Natural Resource Fund Bill and the Local Content Bill  in Parliament last Wednesday.

Attorney General Anil Nandlall says that President Irfaan Ali will soon tell the nation more about the directors of the board to be established for the Natural Resource Fund.