Guyana News

The Guyana Prison Service (GPS) is mourning the loss of former Prison Officer Roxanne Winfield.

By Lakhram Bhagirat Major shipping ports across the United States and the United Kingdom are clogged, threatening to further disrupt the global supply chain and according to the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) if the situation persists then there may be shortages of certain commodities.

Mirroring the financial aspect of its 2009 premier climate change initiative – the Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) – President Irfaan Ali yesterday launched an expanded version of the document that proposes Guyana meeting its global commitments while earning payments for its ecological role, even as it maximises returns from its new-found oil & gas industry.

Four persons including three juveniles were yesterday remanded to prison after they were charged jointly with the murder of Keith Hohenkirk, the shopkeeper who was found bound and gagged in his Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo (EBE) home on Sunday.

Double-murder accused, Kapildeo Gangadin, who escaped from the Lusignan Prison yesterday morning after “tampering” with the quarantine section of the facility was recaptured today, the prison service said.

The Chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has advised that further investigations be conducted into the bribery allegation levelled against Ministry of Amerindian Affairs’ Permanent Secretary Sharon Hicks.

By Lakhram Bhagirat The post of Chief Election Officer (CEO) for the Guyana Elections Com-mission (GECOM) has attracted the attention of a wide range of candidates including an election official from Jamaica and another from the island of St Kitts.

Forty-seven per cent of Guyana’s adult population is fully vaccinated as the Minister of Health continues to urge persons to return for their second dose.

A driver who was arrested during a drug bust at Rahaman’s Park at Houston, East Bank Demerara, was yesterday remanded.

A miner who was working in a pit at White Hole Backdam in Region Eight, died after the pit caved in and blocked him from escaping.

Teachers and students attending the Abram Zuil Secondary School (AZSS) in Region Two are complaining about the COVID-19 environment they are forced to work in. 

Brenna Henry of Laluni Primary School is the overall winner of a child art competition which was intended to highlight the climate change threat.

The National Library and the United States Embassy – Georgetown have announced a joint venture for the opening of the American Corner – Guyana.  

Despite the restrictions of the COVID-19 pandemic, Demerara Bank Limited says it has continued do its part in supporting the fight against breast cancer.

Four more COVID-19 deaths were yesterday reported along with 98 new cases of the virus.

By Carissa Etienne, Director of the Pan American Health Organization, PAHO Ten months after the first vaccine for COVID-19 was authorized for use by the WHO, most people in the Americas remain at risk. 

The Ministry of Health today said  that as of October 27, 2021, four more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

Kapildeo Gangadin, the man who was charged and remanded to prison last week for the murder of businessman, Ganesh Persaud and another escaped from the Lusignan Prison this morning.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) yesterday voided an application by Vista Trading and Logistics (Guyana) Inc  for a cement facility at Le Ressouvenir on the East Coast even though it had earlier exempted it from an impact study.

Declaring that the fate of humanity is at stake, President Irfaan Ali has urged world leaders to make bold decisions on emissions reductions at next week’s COP26 climate conference in Scotland.