Guyana News

President Irfaan Ali yesterday afternoon inspected the soya bean and corn pilot projects in Ebini, Upper Berbice River.

Former Region Six Chairman and People’s Progressive Party (PPP) stalwart Rohit Persaud died yesterday. 

President of the Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA), Rafeek Khan on Friday challenged the country to deliver on the vision of being the regional breadbasket and to cut food imports.

Two women were yesterday granted their release on bail after being charged with assaulting and wounding each other. 

Several workers of the Skeldon sugar estate, supported by the union GAWU, yesterday picketed outside of the estate calling on the GuySuCo to end what they claimed to be its discriminatory benefits practices.

Police are on the hunt for four men who pelted bottles leaving a teacher injured on Sunday night after the owner of a Leonora, West Coast Demerara (WCD) bar informed them that he would closing in keeping with the national COVID-19 curfew.

With just the City Treasurer’s Department to be relocated, the long-awaited rehabilitation of City Hall is expected to commence soon.

A water vendor accused of two armed robberies was yesterday granted bail after telling a city magistrate that he was brutalised by the police. 

The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) is moving to resuscitate the Timehri number 5 well on the East Bank of Demerara to improve the level of service for close to 4000 residents.

Massy Stores is opening a mini supermarket at Vreed-en-Hoop, West Demerara.

The Management of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) yesterday said that it wished to clarify that any patient who is seeking care within any of its facilities is not required to present proof of vaccination in order to enter the compounds.

A chocolate vendor facing a larceny charge was yesterday released on self-bail after telling a court that she had no money to post bail.

The Ministry of Health today said that as of September 26, 2021, ten more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

Guyana’s fight against the coronavirus (COVID-19) has been boosted with a $205.8 million (US $1,029,000) grant from the Government of Japan, the Department of Public Information (DPI) said.

Leaving Guyana in 2019 under the Nalco Champion name following objections from residents to its building of a chemicals warehouse at Industrial Site, Ecolab’s upstream company ChampionX has returned to Guyana aiming to provide undisclosed services for the oil and gas sector.

The five pairs of elevators installed in the overhead pedestrian crossings along the East Bank of Demerara remain inoperable.

The Trinidadian firm which has won the $780m contract to rehabilitate the neo-gothic City Hall boasts of experience in restoring buildings to their architectural glory.

Trucks are still being prevented by protesters from transporting goods from Bonfim, Brazil to Lethem but the situation in the Guyanese border town has improved as supplies have arrived by road and via the Ireng River.

The Matthews Ridge-based Guyana Manganese Inc (GMI) has advertised vacancies for several positions at the company including a mining engineer.

The maker of ASHDEL’s Instant Porridge mix is continuously looking for ways to shorten time spent in the kitchen.