Guyana News

Lindener Samorea Mitchell, who was wanted by police in connection with the shooting of two men in a suspected ambush, is expected to be brought before a city court today to face murder and attempted murder charges. 

The Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) has announced that results for this year’s June/July examinations would be released on or before October 15 in all territories, except St Vincent and the Grenadines.

The Massy Group in Guyana has announced a slate of activities to mark World Suicide Prevention and World Mental Health Day.

A 36-year-old ‘B’ Field Sophia man has been arrested after police discovered an improvised firearm and a .32 live  round on his premises on Wednesday.

ExxonMobil this morning announced a discovery at its Pinktail well in the Stabroek Block, offshore Guyana, adding to the previous recoverable resource estimate of approximately 9 billion oil equivalent barrels.

The Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) yesterday began a series of planned protests against the government’s directive that they get vaccinated against COVID-19 or undergo weekly testing for the virus at their own expense.

The attorney for the trade unions challenging the government’s COVID-19 vaccination policy was yesterday unsuccessful in a bid to secure the temporary suspension of the measures restricting access to public spaces by unvaccinated persons.

Police yesterday arrested the prime suspect in the murders of Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Lance Corporal Daniel Fraser and his girlfriend, Shanicka Forde, and they said he confessed to carrying out the crime because the soldier had sexually assaulted one of his relatives.

While urging parishioners to safeguard the wellbeing of all by getting vaccinated, Bishop Francis Alleyne yesterday announced that Guyana’s Roman Catholic churches will be closed for public worship indefinitely and would meet virtually in a measure of solidarity with those who would be unable to attend gatherings due to new restrictions on unvaccinated persons.

Article 13, a newly-formed Guyanese civil society organisation, yesterday announced plans to push for better governance, accountability and the inclusion of the citizenry in making decisions for national development.

A businessman is now dead after he reportedly lost control of his car and crashed into a utility pole and then a fence along the West Coast Berbice Public Road yesterday.

Three women are the country’s latest COVID-19 fatalities while 289 more cases of the virus have been recorded.

A 13-year-old girl, who took ill after being vaccinated against COVID-19 on Tuesday, was up to last night still receiving medical attention. 

An investigation conducted by the Guyana Fire Service has found that the fire that claimed the life of artist Angold Thompson was caused by the overheating of an electrical fan motor.

A group of workers who are yet to be vaccinated against COVID-19 were yesterday locked out of the New Amsterdam Public Hospital, leading to some of their vaccinated colleagues joining them in solidarity and leaving the hospital’s Accident and Emergency Unit without nurses for some time.

Approximately 1,168 secondary school girls in Region Seven on Tuesday received a one-year supply of sanitary napkins under First Lady Arya Ali’s Menstrual Hygiene initiative.

Contracts valued at over $281 million were signed on Tuesday for the rehabilitation of roads in regions Six and Nine.

The Government of Guyana on Wednesday announced its firm rejection of an agreement by Venezuela’s government and its joint opposition to press their longstanding claim to nearly three-quarters of its territory.

Five Buxtonians were on Tuesday night robbed at an Ital shop at Annandale Railway Embankment, East Coast Demerara, by a gang of armed men and a female accomplice.

A teenager and two adults were yesterday arrested for participating in a series of robberies committed on several persons on the eastern side of the Demerara Harbour Bridge yesterday morning.