Guyana News

A four-year-old Region One boy is among the country’s latest  COVID-19 fatalities.

Ex-police constables Delon Chapman and Leon Ashby who raped a woman who had gone to the Turkeyen Police Station to make a report back in 2018, have each been sentenced to 25 years in prison.

School syllabuses must be reconfigured to teach key competencies that will enable students to function in any environment, according to Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) Registrar and Chief Executive Dr Wayne Wesley, who yesterday said much of what was taught in school is no longer relevant in the working world.

The country’s Health Emergency Operation Centre (HEOC) recently visited over 50 businesses to ensure compliance with the COVID-19 emergency measures.

Kevin Andries, the bus driver who was fatally wounded earlier this week during a “shootout” with the police at Golden Grove, East Bank Demerara (EBD) was shot once in his buttocks.

CNOOC Petroleum Guyana Limited (CPGL), a partner in this country’s offshore Stabroek Block where at least 10 billion barrels of oil equivalent have been discovered is partnering with the University of Guyana (UG) for 18 scholarships valued at just over $4m.

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) yesterday issued a wanted bulletin for Kevon Lloyd Lagodou called Yusuf Ali Lagodou or Shaykh Yusuf Ali Ibn Lagodou, 28, who is wanted for questioning in connection with fraud.

Ranks of the Joint Services yesterday morning conducted a search at the Lusignan Prison during which a number of prohibited items were unearthed.

The Ministry of Health today said that as of October 13, 2021, six more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

Ex-police constables Delon Chapman and Leon Ashby who were last month convicted of raping a woman who had gone to the Turkeyen Police Station to make a report, have each been sentenced to 25 years in prison.

Several vehicles crashed just before midday today after dense smoke from a suspected rice field fire billowed across the main access road in Foulis, Region Five.

Mahdia businesswoman, Denise Vieira, 47, was yesterday found dead in her Pepper Hill home and her husband, a miner,  has since been taken into custody, The police in a statement today said that the two, who  had been together for around eight years, had been estranged over the last three months.

Disparities in multidimensional poverty among ethnic groups in Guyana are consistently high but across the four hinterland regions there is a greater representation in the Amerindian community.

Thirty-year-old vendor Francis Gonzalves has been sentenced to 18 years behind bars for raping a woman back in 2018.

The authorised dealer of Honda motor vehicles in Guyana, Marics & Company Ltd, has issued a recall notice to address issues with vehicles in line with its parent company’s directives.

Aaron Hing, godbrother of British teenager, Dominic Bernard, will face trial at the High Court in Berbice over the murder of the teenager in 2015 at Kildonan, Corentyne, after a not-guilty plea was entered on his behalf at the court yesterday.   

High Court Judge Franklyn Holder has ruled that Magistrate Leron Daly can proceed to conduct a Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the misconduct charges laid against former Deputy Chief Election Officer (DCEO) Roxanne Myers.

With the promise of a “more comfortable” environment for prisoners, the three modern facilities which are currently being constructed at the Lusignan Prison are scheduled to be completed early next year, Director of Prisons (ag) Nicklon Elliott says.

A 50-year-old school janitor died on Monday morning, hours after consuming a mixture of wine and an energy drink.

Three more COVID-19 deaths were yesterday reported along with some 150 new cases of the virus.