Guyana News

An 18-year-old North West District labourer drowned on Sunday after venturing for a swim in Bonasika Creek, Essequibo River.

The Citizen Security Strengthening Programme (CSSP), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)-funded project which was launched to address crime and violence in the country has been extended until June, 2022, Minister of Home Affairs, Robeson Benn says.

The Ministry of Health yesterday said that as of October 11, 2021, six more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

A seventy-one-year-old pastor and her caretaker were robbed yesterday morning of a number of valuable items when two bandits entered their premises and demanded cash and gold.

A beverage vendor was on Monday placed on $60,000 bail after she denied stealing a cellphone valued at $167,000.

The Ministry of Health today said that as of October 11, 2021, six more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

Colin Grant whose trial was scheduled to commence today for the 2013 murder of businesswoman Sirmattie Ramnaress, is instead now facing sentencing after admitting his involvement in the woman’s killing.

Expressing concern over assets of the Mayor and City Council being undervalued and negotiated for disposal, the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development today warned that such actions would not be tolerated.

The Georgetown-based CARICOM Secretariat today said that it has instituted measures as of 1 October, 2021 with respect to access to its offices across the Region in order to provide a safe working environment for its staff, in keeping with attempts to limit the spread of the Covid-19 virus.

The vast majority of recent COVID-19 deaths have been of unvaccinated persons.

The opposition APNU+AFC yesterday blasted Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo for not entering meaningful discussions with it on Guyana’s platform for the COP26 climate meeting later this month and for stating that the previous country position of 100% green energy by 2025 would be cut in half.

A Route 42 minibus driver was killed yesterday morning during a “shootout” with the police who said they were trying to apprehend him and an accomplice in relation to suspected stolen items they had in their vehicle at Golden Grove, East Bank Demerara (EBD).

A Trinidadian firm is gearing up to invest in the construction and operation of a Hyatt-branded hotel here, a source close to the government yesterday disclosed.

With Wakapoa identified as a COVID-19 hotspot, a team from the Suddie Public Hospital in Region Two will be dispatched to the Amerindian community today to assess what help can be provided.

A bus driver has been released on bail after being faced with multiple charges of fraudulently obtaining money from persons by falsely pretending that he was in a position to rent apartments and houses to them.

Prosecutor Darshan Ramdhani yesterday handed over several boxes containing certified copies of Statements of Poll (SOPs) and Statements of Recount (SORs) from the March 2nd 2020 general and regional elections to the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

A Corentyne man is now in police custody after the relatives of three young men filed a rape report against him.

Two more COVID-19 deaths were reported yesterday. This was revealed by the Ministry of Health in a press release which stated that the country’s total deaths as a result of the virus increased to 842.

A Corentyne man was arrested on Sunday for allegedly assaulting the Mayor of Rose Hall Town at the Hampshire Civic Clinic Centre.

The Minister of Human Services and Social Security (MOHSSS) yesterday launched the ‘Storyboard’ initiative which will allow twenty-five girls to share their life experiences and how they overcome challenges through writing.