Guyana News

The loss of Professor Emerita Dr Joycelynne Loncke is a blow to Guyana and the entire Caribbean’s cultural sphere since she was the embodiment of culture and humanity in the arts, according to literary critic Al Creighton.

Eighteen-year-old Ezekiel Hawker is wanted for questioning by the police over the gunning down of Deon Charles on Christmas Eve night on James Street, Albouystown.

Minister of Agriculture,  Zulfikar Mustapha  and Lionel Wordsworth, Chairman of the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA), and members of the Civil Defence Commission (CDC) yesterday conducted assessments of flood impacted areas in Essequibo Islands-West Demerara (Region 3).

Former APNU+AFC Minister of Finance Winston Jordan who was yesterday charged (see other story below) over the sale of waterfront property to BK International at a price allegedly far below market value had been cautioned in January of 2019 via the Ministry of Public Works that the transaction could lead to charges against him and other culpable officers.

A Corentyne fisherman is now battling for his life at the New Amsterdam Public Hospital after he was stabbed on Monday morning after he defended his nephew, 13, against the alleged attacker.

Six Berbicians are now nursing injuries after the driver of the vehicle they were in slammed into a concrete structure on Main Road early yesterday morning.

Former Minister of Finance Winston Jordan was arraigned this morning before Chief Magistrate Ann Mc Lennan on a charge of  misconduct in public office in relation to the sale of a prime piece of real estate owned by the state below market value to BK Marine Inc.

Three civil society groups yesterday called on the government to postpone parliamentary debate on the Natural Resource Fund (NRF) bill amid growing concerns that it is grossly defective.

The Regional Administration of Region Four (Demerara-Mahaica) paid over $33.7 million more for the supply of drugs, from outside suppliers, during the year 2020, according to the Auditor General’s report.

Government earlier this month tabled in Parliament a bill which would see the establishment of a Human Organ and Tissue Transplant Agency here to facilitate the removal, donation and transfer of human organs to those in need due to health complications.

Nineteen-year-old Vickash Kevin Fredericks of New Road, Region Two died on Sunday night in an accident.

City Mayor Ubraj Narine was on Boxing Day questioned by police subsequent to allegations of him indiscriminatingly firing off his gun at his home in Pigeon Island, Chateau Margot, East Coast Demerara.

President of ExxonMobil Guyana, Alistair Routledge says the company has had a safe year of operations in line with its commitment to its “Nobody Gets Hurt” occupational health and safety philosophy. 

Following torrential rain, flooding in parts  of Georgetown began to recede late yesterday afternoon as pumps and sluices in and around the city were all functioning.

Martial Arts instructor and bodyguard Garfield Newton was killed on Christmas Eve in a robbery after visiting a goldsmith in Albouystown, Georgetown.

A Christmas Day fire has left a Corentyne family homeless after their fully furnished two-story wooden house was completely destroyed.

A Middle Road, La Penitence man was gunned down by two men on Christmas Eve while standing on the corner of James Street, Albouystown, Georgetown.

A Corentyne man lost his life on the eve of Christmas after he was involved in an accident along the Bush Lot Public Road.

Two more COVID-19 deaths were reported yesterday along with 12 new cases of the virus.

The Civil Defence Commission (CDC) today said it has received reports that several locations in and around Georgetown are flooded.