Guyana News

Several businesses in Pomeroon-Supenaam have signalled their intention to come on board with the Ministry of Education (MoE) to support the Teachers’ Wel-fare and Benefits Programme which was launched yesterday at the Anna Regina Multilateral Secondary School (ARMS).

The second suspect who is wanted in connection with the murder of Nelson Thomas, the miner who was stabbed to death during a robbery in Kaneville, East Bank Demerara (EBD) yesterday allegedly opened fire on a police rank on patrol duty before escaping.

Minister of Health, Dr Frank Anthony says that the authorities here are not considering a total closure of Guyana’s borders in response to the sharp increase in COVID-19 cases and informed that they will continue to work towards having genetic sequencing done to identify variants.

A youth was yesterday sentenced to four years behind bars after admitting to robbing two persons of gold jewellery and other items during two separate robberies in Albouystown, Georgetown.

President Irfaan Ali yesterday reaffirmed Guyana’s commitment to gaining international reparations for the African slave trade. 

Residents living in Adventure and the neighbouring community of Airy Hall, Region Two, are calling on the Regional Administration and the Ministry of Public Works to conduct maintenance works on the main public road.

Police are investigating the death of an elderly West Coast Berbice resident who allegedly dropped dead on the roadway while on his way home yesterday afternoon.

All local and foreign airline operators and services are mandated to be vaccinated and have in their possession, their vaccination cards and official identification cards according to the updated COVID guidelines, a release from the National COVID-19 Task Force said yesterday.

Workers of the Guyana Gold Board (GGB) will now be represented by the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) following a poll between the Union and the General Workers Union (GWU) yesterday.

The Guyana Police Force is requesting the assistance of the general public in locating the relatives of 38-year-old Dellon Eastman of Timehri who died on 2021-01-07.

As training for new police officers remains on a pause due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Guyana Police Force (GPF) currently has a backlog of applications dating from as far as more than five years ago.

The Ministry of Health today said that as September 21, 2021, two more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

The National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) yesterday distanced itself from a decision to retender a contract, as claimed by the Ministry of Agriculture, and its Board will meet next week to discuss the issue.

Having found that there was no proper monitoring system in place at the breached reservoir owned by Guyana Manganese Inc.

The Ministry of Health yesterday reported the deaths of five more persons with COVID-19, including a 92-year-old man.

Six months after he was gunned down outside the Palm Court bar on Main Street, the family of Ricardo Fagundes last evening demanded answers from the police on the state of their investigation.

A probe by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has concluded that the recent pollution on the Kingston seashore, Georgetown was a result of waste oil being dumped into the Demerara River.

Guyana has engaged the Secretary-General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro on recent attempts by Venezuela’s government and opposition to use the border controversy between the two countries as a point of negotiation.

An Upper Berbice River logger was on Monday remanded to prison over the murder of Kevin Hercules, whose body was discovered floating downwards in the Berbice River last Tuesday.

A policeman and a robbery suspect were both shot in their thighs during a scuffle on Leopold Street yesterday.