Guyana News

Two men were on Wednesday charged with wounding each other and they were each released on $20,000 bail.

On Saturday last, Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha traveled to the villages of Awarewaunau, Shea and Maruranau in Region Nine to distribute flood-relief grants to farmers who suffered during this year’s extended rainy period.

The Guyana Shop, a subsidiary of the New Guyana Marketing Corporation (New GMC), and Guyana’s largest one-stop shop for locally made products, celebrated its ninth anniversary yesterday.

GTT has collaborated with STEMGuyana to launch its Pinktober Breast Cancer awareness chatbot that will allow members of the public to have access to concise and comprehensible information on different types of cancer.

Arson is suspected to be behind the blaze that damaged the Charlestown Post Office last night, the Guyana Fire Service (GFS) says.

The Ministry of Health today said that as October 26, 2021, one more person who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

The Guyana Government is in talks with China to access as much as US$1.5b in loans to finance a number of big-ticket projects.

Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly and Leader of the Liberty and Justice Party (LJP), Lenox Shuman, is calling on President Irfaan Ali to commence the engagement process with the Leader of the Opposition for the critical and long over-due substantive appointments of Chancellor and Chief Justice.

As ExxonMobil seeks to win approval for its fourth well development at Yellowtail, one of its senior officials told Monday’s information session at the Umana Yana that the company takes the environment seriously and even the spilling of a teaspoon of oil will be reported to the authorities.

Tenders were yesterday opened at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board for the construction of the new headquarters of the Guyana Fire Service in Region Four.

Chairman of the Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) Jermaine Figueira yesterday said that he has been informed by the Clerk of the National Assembly that a clerk for the committee has been identified.

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has received 20 applications for the post of Chief Election Officer (CEO) and among these is the résumé of Gocool Boodoo, a former controversial CEO, according to Commissioner Vincent Alexander.

A carpenter on Monday evening succumbed at the Georgetown Public Hospital after he was struck by a light truck which was reversing along the Chesney Housing Scheme access road on Saturday.

Local health authorities are already examining administering COVID-19 vaccines to children from the ages of 5 to 11 year, according to the Minister of Health, Dr Frank Anthony.

Commander of Region Six, Superintendent Jairam Ramlakhan, yesterday afternoon confirmed that four persons have been arrested in connection with the robbery committed on an overseas-based Guyanese woman and her family in Number 73 Village, Corentyne, Berbice, during the wee hours of Monday.

The contractors involved with the City Hall restoration project conducted a preliminary site visit earlier this month and works are expected to start in November.

A 31-year-old Mackenzie, Linden resident was yesterday granted $250,000 bail after being arraigned on a drug trafficking charge at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

It is the contention of Attorney General (AG) Anil Nandlall SC that the Full Court of the High Court has no jurisdiction to hear any matter arising out of anything connected with an election petition.

Hemraj Sankar, known as Raymond,  was on Monday arrested by a party of policemen from the Golden Grove/Diamond Police Station in connection with a rape in Region Two.