Guyana News

The Guyana Sugar Corporation Inc. (GuySuCo) has announced the induction of 41 apprentices to its Training Centre at Port Mourant.

A 24-year-old man walked out the Sexual Offences Court yesterday afternoon a free man, after a jury returned a verdict of not guilty of raping a thirteen-year-old girl back in 2019.

A driver was on Monday set $1 million bail after he was charged with causing the death of a teen, who was hit down on Saturday night along the Bagotstown Public Road, East Bank Demerara.

Nine persons lost their home on Sunday in a fire of unknown origin at Mocha, East Bank Demerara.

The Guyana Police Force is seeking the public’s help to find relatives of a 56-year-old security guard, who died last Friday at Itaballi Landing, Lower Mazaruni River.

The Ministry of Health today said that as of September 06, 2021, seven more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

HOUSTON,  (Reuters) – Exxon Mobil Corp today said it will begin measuring methane emissions from production of natural gas at a New Mexico facility, joining a number of shale gas producers seeking to provide the data to buyers.

Public schools across the country reopened on Monday for face-to-face learning for nursery- and primary-level students and the Ministry of Education indicated that there was a high turnout by both teachers and their charges despite some reports of lockouts in some regions as a result new vaccination requirements. 

The Guyana Association of Bankers Inc has announced that financial institutions would soon be conforming with the newest COVID-19 measures, which place restrictions on access by unvaccinated persons.

Local ExxonMobil affiliate Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL) has said that its planned 12-Well Exploration and Appraisal (E&A) Drilling Program in the Canje Block, offshore Guyana, is slated to begin by the first quarter of 2022 once environmental authorisation is given for the project.

Some unvaccinated parents and teachers in Region Two were locked out from schools on Monday as a result of newly enforced requirements for access.

Region Six’s primary and nursery schools reopened yesterday for face-to-face learning but while there was a poor turnout of students overall, parents who opted to send their children to school were happy with the arrangements.

A casual visitor to the town of Linden, in Region Ten on Monday could be forgiven for thinking it was a holiday.

A 26-year-old Wakenaam man was yesterday apprehended by residents of the community after he allegedly chopped his father to death during an argument.

The police on Sunday found a total of 44 pounds of cannabis with an estimated street value of $6.6 million in a car that was abandoned on the eastern side of the Wismar Bridge, at Linden, after the occupants fled the moving vehicle as law enforcers approached.

With government moving to place greater restrictions on access to public spaces by unvaccinated persons, Health Minister Dr Frank Anthony yesterday said the decision was driven by the need to ensure public safety.

Guyana on Monday confirmed the deaths of six more persons who had COVID-19, taking the country’s death toll from the virus to 647.

With Region Two recording an increase in coronavirus cases, the Region’s Task Force will be taking the necessary actions to ensure that businesses and residents adhere to the COVID-19 measures, while calls continue for more persons to get vaccinated.

With their parents eager for the resumption of face-to-face learning, hundreds of children in Region Two have already received their first Pfizer jabs under the adolescent COVID-19 vaccination campaign that is now underway.