Guyana News

A Stanleytown, New Amsterdam man died yesterday afternoon after he lost control of his vehicle and crashed into a parked lorry on the Beterverwagting Railway Embankment, East Coast Demerara.

A total of 164 persons were up to yesterday morning hospitalized across Guyana with COVID-19 and Minister of Health Dr.

The Environmental Assessment Board (EAB) will be facilitating a public hearing tomorrow into all appeals submitted against the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) decision not to require an impact assessment for the York Investment Inc quarry mining project.

A guard attached to the MMC Security Service was discovered dead at her workplace yesterday morning and the police have launched a probe to determine the circumstances surrounding her passing.

The border between Lethem and Bonfim in Brazil remains closed until such time as both governments decide it is safe and reasonable to allow border crossings.

Australian mining company Troy Resources Limited yesterday announced that current Non-Executive Director, Richard Beazley, will assume the role of interim CEO and Managing Director, effective immediately following the sudden death on Monday of CEO, Ken Nilsson.

A Lamaha Park woman who was injured in an accident over a week ago, succumbed on Monday to injuries sustained.

Foreign Ministers of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) yesterday impressed upon United States Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman the urgency for the delivery of the second tranche of donations of Pfizer vaccines from the US.

Once bustling with bars, snackettes and miners, the landing which serves as the core of the gold mining community in the Marudi Mountains in the Rupununi has become eerily desolate – a ghost town filled with nothing but empty shacks and a handful of persons as a years-long stalemate between prospectors and the regulatory authorities continues.

Region Two is currently experiencing an increase of Covid-19 with 23 persons having died from the virus to date and 158 active cases.

Works on the new well at Lusignan, East Coast Demerara are progressing as planned despite some minor setbacks.

The Ministry of Health (MOH) today said that as of September 20, 2021, five more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

Weeks after Stabroek News had reported that the government had been delinquent in naming its members to the local extractive industries transparency body, the administration yesterday complied.

Minister of Home Affairs, Robeson Benn has promised the family of Essequibo businessman, Orin Boston that all efforts will be made to ensure his death is “thoroughly” investigated and he also said there will be a review of the Guyana Police Force’s Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).

A compromised drainage system is suspected to be the primary cause of the recent flash flooding in Matthews Ridge, Region One, after the reservoir belonging to Chinese-owned Guyana Manganese Inc (GMI) collapsed, Regional Chairman Brentnol Ashley said yesterday.

Come November, Guyanese visiting the US must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and Washington is still to make a decision on which vaccines it will accept.

Australian mining company, Troy Resources Limited says that its Managing Director, Ken Nilsson, passed away yesterday morning after failing to recover from a medical procedure last week.

Minister of Agriculture Zulfikar Mustapha yesterday decided to establish a committee in the Mahaicony Branch Road area to review the listing of farmers who have gotten flood relief grants after receiving numerous complaints that their losses were under-reported. 

Pre-cooked pepper-pot and cookup – standout offerings in Guyanese cuisine – are among a host of products seeking overseas markets in a USAID-funded programme.

The government’s current focus on the sugar industry is making the Rose Hall Factory operational and a single bid was last Thursday received to fix the roof of the boiler house of that estate.