Guyana News

Guyana’s latest gazetted COVID-19 emergency measures allow for cinema patrons to use concession stands.

Around 20 foreign service officers (FSOs) are being recalled from their posts by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Days after a wanted bulletin was issued for him, Dexter Morris on Tuesday surrendered to the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) in the company of his lawyer.

Sangodele Mentore, the driver involved in the accident which claimed the life of Dhaniram Harilall, three weeks after he was struck down on the Rail-way Embankment at Liliendaal, East Coast Demerara, was yesterday charged with causing his death.

The Ministry of Labour is probing the death of a chainsaw operator, Winston Meredith on August 17 on a logging concession.

The badly decomposed body of a Stanleytown, New Amster-dam  woman was yesterday discovered in her house just before midday.

Attorney General Anil Nandlall SC, has said that the Extradition and Legal Assistance agreements currently being developed between Guyana and Suriname, is a sign of this country’s commitment to working with its eastern neighbour.

The Amerindian Peoples Association (APA) has embarked on a France-funded project aimed at enhanced protection of indigenous rights, the forest, and the environment.

A large quantity of marijuana plants were yesterday destroyed by fire during a drug eradication exercise at Coomacka Mines, Linden, Upper Demerara River.

The body of an unidentified man was yesterday found at Maria’s Pleasure Koker, located in Wakenaam, Essequibo River.

Three-year-old Sheneea Young on Tuesday suffered a fractured left leg after she was struck down in an accident at Hyde Park, Parika Access Road, East Bank Essequibo.

The Ministry of  Labour yesterday announced that following a five-year hiatus both Demerara Timbers Limited (DTL) and the union GAWU have agreed to resume bilateral relations which will feature face-to-face discussions.

A labourer who denied that he broke into his sister’s apartment and stole bearings and money, was remanded after the court heard that he is a repeat offender.  

The Ministry of Health today said that as August 31, 2021, two more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

A 37-year-old Recht-Door-Zee, West Bank Demerara (WBD) woman was this morning stabbed to death by her husband who subsequently hung himself.

President Irfaan Ali today promised that an updated Amerindian Act will become the principal legal means of protecting the rights of indigenous people including as it relates to their entitlement to lands and rights over those lands.

Three of the trade unions which represent workers in the public service have approached the High Court in an attempt to have the COVID-19 emergency measures requiring that proof of vaccination or a negative test be provided by public servants before they can access their work-place declared unconstitutional.

Environmentalist Simone Mangal-Joly has written to the Environmental Assessment Board (EAB) objecting to the EPA’s decision not to require an impact assessment for the new bridge over the Demerara River and pointing out that it was a reversal of an earlier position that one was needed.

The convictions of Bibi Sharima-Gopaul and her former partner Jarvis Small who murdered Gopaul’s 16-year-old daughter Neesa, have been affirmed by the Guyana Court of Appeal; but their combined 202–year sentence has been considerably reduced to a combined term of 90 years.

Two men who were arrested last Friday were on Monday remanded to prison after they were charged with the possession of narcotics.