Guyana News

The U.S. Naval Ship (USNS) Burlington conducted a joint training exercise with the Guyana Defence Force Coast Guard on September 18.

A 27-year-old man is currently hospitalized at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) after he was riddled with bullets fired by a man in the wee hours of yesterday while he was standing outside of a shop in ‘D’ Field Sophia.

A 49-year-old Parfaite Harmonie goldsmith was on Saturday night assaulted and robbed by three men armed with a handgun and knives.

The Government of Guyana is offering a limited number of scholarships at the Master’s Degree level in oil and gas and other areas at the Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen in the United Kingdom.

President Irfaan Ali on Saturday told the Sixth Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) that never again must the region be held hostage to vaccine nationalism and it must therefore combine resources.

Residents in several communities in East Berbice, Region Six are to benefit from improved access to potable water.

Noting that the APNU+AFC administration spent less than US$2 million for two air bridges for the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA),  Timehri,  former Minister of Public Infrastructure David Patterson is questioning what led to an almost 20% increase for the new air bridges being procured.

UK oil company Tullow Oil last week disclosed that while it will be focussing its exploration expertise on unlocking additional value from the company’s asset base, it is also limiting its capital exposure in Guyana and Argentina.

A 44-year-old vendor was on Saturday night robbed at her stall at National Avenue, South Ruimveldt by a man with a gun.

The Ministry of Health today said that as of September 18, 2021, twelve more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

Security guard Sigmol Gouveia, 26, of Block A, Sophia was last night fatally stabbed at a dockyard at Vreed-en-Hoop stelling, West Coast Demerara.

Close to 200 of the Albion Estate’s cane harvesters took to the streets yesterday to protest for financial assistance due to the impact of the May/June floods, which damaged the estate’s sugar cane, resulting in a drastic drop in their weekly earnings since the start of the new crop.

A police pursuit along the Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara (ECD) Public Road on Friday night has left a 26-year-old man dead and a teenage girl seriously injured.

Guyana will get a total of five lifts of one million barrels of oil this year and not the anticipated six after production was scaled back earlier this year due to the flash gas compressor problems aboard the Liza Destiny FPSO, according to Minister of Natural Resources Vickram Bharrat.

Veteran engineer Charles Ceres says that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)  is operating in breach of its own governing Act in key areas, including the denial of the need for impact assessments for major projects and the pool of qualified consultants it should enlist to undertake these.

Sandrama Roma Raju, the Corentyne woman who was allegedly burnt by her husband during the wee hours of last Monday morning, succumbed to her injuries at the New Amsterdam Public Hospi-tal last evening.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) yesterday announced that seven more persons who were infected with COVID-19 have died, taking this month’s death toll from the virus to 88.

The Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) has suspended its recently launched “Boots on the Ground” protests.

A rigid education campaign and counselling sessions are being credited with the St.

The Takutu Bridge will remain closed to all but the transport of essential items while the Government of Guyana and the Roraima State in Brazil discuss protocols for a possible re-opening, according to statements from both sides following a meeting in Boa Vista on Friday.