Guyana News

At approximately 11:05 a.m. today, the body of a female patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) was discovered hanging in the ward’s washroom by one of our staff.

ExxonMobil has increased its estimate of the discovered recoverable resource for the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana to approximately 10 billion oil-equivalent barrels. 

The NIS today said it was doing emergency electrical works at its Brickdam head office and services have been temporarily interrupted.

Even as it expands its services and has applied for permission from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to set up a medical lab in Kingston, Georgetown, United States-headquartered remote medical services provider, RemoteMD, has come under fire for the disparity in pay for locals.

Clarence Greene, the man who allegedly set the fire which destroyed the Brick-dam Police Station on Saturday, remains in police custody and is likely to appear in court today.

(Trinidad Guardian) The United Independent Petroleum Marketing Company Limited (Unipet) has announced plans to build a US$4.9 million multi-purpose fuel station in Guyana.

Deputy Superintendent of Police, Dexter Brown was yesterday charged  with possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking.

Guyana is to develop its own national forest certification scheme, a break from a decades-long relationship with the top-ranked Forest Stewardship Council (FSC).

Bartica miner Eon Anthony Ramnarine, 38, was stabbed to death on Monday at Obanna Back-dam, Kuribrong in Region Seven.

Six men who were arrested during a Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) operation were on Tuesday charged with possession of over 1,000 pounds of cannabis and two have pleaded guilty to the crime.

City courts have started adjourning matters to allow the police time to reconstruct documents for court proceedings to continue in wake of the Brick-dam Police Station fire.

The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) yesterday launched a new service to verify the speed guns used by Traffic Ranks of the Guyana Police Force (GPF).

The trial of ex-policeman Colin Bailey and Colin Grant who are accused of the 2013 murder of Bailey’s common-law wife—businesswoman Sirmattie Ramnaress—is set to commence next Tuesday.

The Minister of Health Dr Frank Anthony yesterday  announced that the authorities are working to set up an oxygen plant at the country’s infectious disease hospital.

Nine more COVID-19 fatalities were yesterday recorded along with some 250 new cases of the virus.

The Ministry of Health yesterday said that a pre-existing condition led to the death of a vaccinated boy from Moruca on October 4.

A concrete batching company that established illicit operations near to South Ruimveldt Gardens is now setting up a plant at McDoom on the East Bank of Demerara and has been told that no impact survey is needed.

On Tuesday, the Ministry of Health handed over a new ambulance to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) valued at approximately $11 million.

A Rasville, Roxanne Burnham Gardens youth was yesterday charged with the unlawful possession of a firearm. 

The US Embassy George-town on Tuesday announced funding of US$24,897 ($5.2m) to Voices GY, a local non-profit organization providing support to migrants and their host communities in Guyana, to engage leaders of vulnerable migrant groups and returning Guyanese in Regions 3 and 4.