Guyana News

Sustainable agriculture in the Caribbean received a boost with the establishment of a C$20 million Canadian government-funded project in several Caribbean states specifically designed to benefit disadvantaged persons.

A Canefield man was arrested on Monday after he dealt his older brother, a police constable, several stabs about his body.

Two more COVID-19 deaths were yesterday reported, taking October’s death toll to 100.

The Ministry of Health today said that as October 25, 2021, two more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

ExxonMobil today said that the Liza Unity floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel has arrived in the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana after travelling for nearly 53 days and more than 11,000 nautical miles from Singapore.

As the probe into the murder of Keith Hohenkirk, the amputee who was found bound and gagged in his home on Sunday continues, investigators have detained a mother and her teenaged daughter and are on the hunt for three men.

A Lyng Street, Charlestown vendor was fatally stabbed on Sunday by his neighbour, who wrongfully accused him of posting an intimate video of him (the suspect) and his girlfriend on social media.

Speaker of the National Assembly, Manzoor Nadir is currently seeking to find a solution for the resumption of meetings of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament.

A 17-year-old motorcyclist died on Sunday night in a hit-and-run accident along the Ogle, East Coast Demerara (ECD) Railway Embankment.

A contract was yesterday signed for 25 core homes in Sophia  by the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) to the tune of $111.8m.

Bevon Stephon Griffith now awaits sentence after admitting to unlawfully killing Sophia resident Celwin Mark Allen on Christmas night back in 2017.

Scheduled to face what would have been his third and final trial for the 2013 Mashramani Day murder of Enterprise businessman Kumar Mohabir; Devon Thomas has instead thrown himself at the mercy of the Court, pleading guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter.

With the recent approval of a booster shot for the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine by the United States’ Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Guyana’s Minister of Health Dr Frank Anthony yesterday noted that authorities here are examining to possibility of administering same.

Two bandits armed with guns yesterday morning robbed an overseas-based Guyanese and her relatives in the Upper Corentyne Area.

Two unvaccinated men are the country’s latest COVID-19 fatalities. This was reported by the Ministry of Health in a press release yesterday which stated that the country’s total deaths as a result of the virus increased to 897.

Guyana’s draft Local Content Bill is currently being ‘fine-tuned’ and Attorney General Anil Nandlall SC says that it will be laid in Parliament before year-end as promised by government.

An East Bank Demerara (EBD) resident was taken into custody yesterday following the alleged discovery of more than $4.7M worth of cannabis in his motorcar.

A Region Two rice farmer is now counting millions in losses due to flooding of 50 acres of his rice cultivation by continuous rainfall.

The Justice Institute Guyana (JIG) has written the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) warning it that the Request for a Thematic Hearing set for today “contains a number of factual and legal errors with respect to Guyana including misrepresentations on the land rights of indigenous peoples in Guyana.”

Tenders were on Friday opened at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) for the emergency reconstruction of the Eastern Highway Bridge in Region Four.