Guyana News

The Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) on Thursday announced that some $59 million in Home Improvement Subsidies have been disbursed to a total of 118 low-income families in Sophia.

The use of the one-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine has been minimal since its arrival according to Health Minister, Dr Frank Anthony who also noted that Guyana has not had any issue with the expiration of COVID-19 shots here.

Within the next week another shipment of the Sputnik V COVID-19 second dose is expected to arrive in Guyana and Government continues to engage the supplier in Russia to ensure that there is a “steady” supply of the vaccine.

While the COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant delays in the distribution of birth certificates by the General Register Office (GRO), the department has promised that it would improve its rate of distribution by the end of this month.

The charge against an Albion, Corentyne businessman for breaching COVID-19 protocols was yesterday dismissed by Magistrate Rabindranath Singh.

A Tuschen New Housing Scheme businesswoman was released on $100,000 bail after being charged with larceny by  bailee.

Dartmouth businessman, Orin Boston, who was shot dead by a policeman on Wednesday was laid to rest yesterday.

In their bid to explore investment opportunities here, a number of delegations from across the world are expected to visit Guy-ana in the coming weeks to conduct  “on ground” inspections.

A woman who is charged with unlawful wounding told a City Court that the man she allegedly wounded, hit her first. 

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

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) today rejected what it said were “malicious” allegations against senior officers.

Addressing the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, President Irfaan Ali yesterday urged that the movement of people not be curtailed based on the COVID-19 vaccines they took and he also upped the pressure on Venezuela over the border controversy between the two countries.

Following the controversial retendering of steel for the Ministry of Agriculture’s National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA), a decision is being mulled to cancel the tender altogether and cease the practice of the authority stockpiling steel.

With the growing number of COVID-19 infections and deaths resulting in the United States’ Centers for Disease Control and Pre-vention (CDC) this week warning against travel to Guyana, the PNCR yesterday called on the government to “take politics out of health” and have an inclusive approach to addressing the pandemic.

Two Region Two men died on Wednesday afternoon after a truck toppled at Buckhall, Essequibo River, the latest of a series of fatal accidents in the area.

Following the conclusion of fresh legal proceedings, Premdaat Persaud has again lost to his brother Deodat Persaud, all claims to ownership of the embattled Camp Street building housing the popular Shanta’s Puri Shop, which their mother had bequeath-ed to all six of her children.

The South Rupununi District Council (SRDC) is calling on the government to ensure that better policies are put in place to protect schoolchildren in South Rupununi communities against COVID-19.

Four more COVID-19 fatalities along with 258 cases were reported yesterday.

The Minister of Health yesterday stated that as long as the critical information on laminated COVID-19 vaccination booklets is visible, it is acceptable.

A Patentia Housing Scheme, West Coast Demerara (WCD), cane harvester was crushed to death by an excavator while at work at the Uitvlugt Estate Backdam, WCD.