Guyana News

Gregory Wickham was elected president of the East Coast Demerara Football Association (ECDFA), when the entity staged its constitutionally mandated electoral congress yesterday at the Beterverwagting (BV) Primary School.

Attorney General (AG) Anil Nandall SC has said that the COVID-19 measures implemented by Government which are aimed at increasing vaccination among citizens “can withstand constitutional and legal scrutiny from any court.”

The Government has extended by four days its Request for Proposals (RFP) for the Amaila Falls Hydropower Project (AFHP), which is expected to begin construction next year.

Declaring that it is time for accountability in the country, A New and United Guyana (ANUG) yesterday called for a Coroner’s Inquest into the death of Orin Boston at the hands of the police on September 14th at Dartmouth, Essequibo Coast.

Senior Minister in the Office of the President with responsibility for Finance, Dr Ashni Singh on Saturday toured the various operation sites at Zijin Mining, operators of the Aurora gold mine in Region 7.

Frontera Energy Corporation on Friday disclosed that it has entered into a term sheet for a US$20 million rights offering bridge loan that will enable CGX Energy to continue to fund its share of costs related to the Corentyne, Demerara and Berbice blocks, the Berbice Deepwater Port, and other budgeted costs in Guyana.

Police on Saturday arrested a female passenger on a bus which was driving along the Fort Wellington Public Road, Berbice after she was found in possession of 2721.5 grams of cannabis.

The Guyana Fire Service has concluded that the blaze which destroyed a house and two vehicles in the Vigilance Police Station Compound, East Coast Demerara last Tuesday was the work of arson.

Dissatisfied that the Guyana Court of Appeal affirmed a 23-year sentence imposed upon him by a High Court judge for the rape and vicious beating of a woman, Calvin Ramcharran has appealed all the way to the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ).

Minister of Public Works, Juan Edghill has told residents of Onderneeming that their community will soon be getting a police outpost.

An 18-year-old youth has been arrested after he was discovered with a gun and matching ammunition in a bag he was carrying.

Frontera on Friday disclosed that downhole drilling operations at the Kawa-1 well site offshore Guyana have been without any significant issues and well results thus far are consistent with the Company’s pre-drill geological and geophysical expectations.

By Chris Ramsaroop, Kevin Edmonds, Mark Chatarpal, Lotoya Haynes-Francis, Terry Roswell, former students of Arnold Itwaru in the Caribbean Studies Program at the University of Toronto, Canada.

The community of Circuitville along the Soesdyke/Linden Highway, is set to soon benefit from electricity for the first time.

The Ministry of Health today said  that as of September 25, 2021, eight more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

A New and United Guyana (ANUG) today called for a Coroner’s Inquest to be conducted into the violent death of Orin Boston at the hands of the police on September14th.

Following breaches of a tailings pond and reservoir at two large-scale mining companies, Minister of Natural Resources Vickram Bharrat has announced that a joint-agency monitoring unit will be established.

Three loud explosions were heard moments before the North West Secondary School building, Mabaruma, Region One, went up in flames, the Guyana Police Force (GPF) says.

In the wake of the raging controversy over the multiple retendering of a contract for the supply of steel sheet piles, the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) has withdrawn retenders for four other projects.

A 77-year-old woman died yesterday after she was struck down by a motor lorry on the Eccles Public Road, East Bank Demerara (EBD) while crossing the street.