Guyana News

The Ministry of Education (MoE) has announced that secondary schools will re-open for face-to-face learning this month with grades 10, 11 and 12, but unvaccinated students will not be denied entry.

The Ministry of Labour has indicated its intention to investigate Centipede Offshore Guyana Inc for unsafe work practices after becoming aware that 39-year-old Tanesha Fredericks had won a court case brought against the company for chemical burns she sustained while under their employ.

A year after being closed to the public, Grand Coastal Hotel at Le Ressouvenir, East Coast Demerara, has announced that it will be reopening to accommodate guests and visitors.

A man was beaten and robbed last Thursday evening at Goed Fortuin Housing Scheme.

The Ministry of Health today said that five more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

Former Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee today expressed sadness at the destruction of the Brickdam Police Station by fire and said that criticisms of the fire service’s performance should be the subject of an immediate investigation.

A fire destroyed the Brickdam Police Station on Saturday as firefighters struggled to contain the blaze at the wooden building.

Following a call by the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) for the tabling of local content legislation by the end of this year as its members say they are being sidelined from  oil and gas works, Minister of Natural Resources Vickram Bharrat yesterday assured that government is assiduously working towards that timeline.

Bibi Nazeela Habiboodean and the man she hired to kill her father were yesterday both sentenced to death by High Court Judge Sandil Kissoon, who described the savage beating the septuagenarian victim endured as reprehensible.

The police have managed to identify two suspects in the murder of electrician Joshua Denny and on Friday recovered the motorcycle believed to have been used in their getaway.

Weeks of protesting by residents in the Brazilian town of Bonfim have ended as the Guyana Government has agreed to more movement of traders between the two countries but with COVID-19 rules in place.

A nine-year-old girl is now dead after being struck by a car along the Islington Public Road on Friday morning.

Soon after St Gabriel Primary student Sophia Kerr entered her online classes as per normal last Monday morning her father heard her yelling that she couldn’t see anything.

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) yesterday began advertising to fill several critical positions, including that of the Chief Election Officer (CEO).

The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) came under intense public scrutiny yesterday after it unveiled an all-male Corporate Management team.

Guyanese international musician Eddy Grant has come out victorious in the first stage of a lawsuit he has initiated against former US President Donald Trump over the unauthorised use of his popular song ‘Electric Avenue.’

The Ministry of Health on Friday reported six more COVID-19 fatalities along with 228 new cases of the virus.

The government will begin distribution of 2022 pension booklets and the one-off $25,000 COVID cash grant for pensioners from Monday.

Twenty-five-year-old Mohammed Imran Khan, who has alleged that he was abducted and beaten, was remanded to prison on Friday on a charge of raping a child. 

Steve Atkinson and Jayson Atkinson, the father and son accused of abducting Essequibo bus driver Mohammed Imran Khan and battering him, were charged on Friday with assault causing actual bodily harm.