Guyana News

Rifs Lima Fish Port Complex is currently investing over $100 million in the construction of a wharf, a dry dock area and a processing plant at Charity, in Region Two.

An Alliance for Change (AFC)-sponsored motion of no-confidence against Region Four Chairman Daniel Seeram is actively being discussed by the party’s executive, according to General Secretary David Patterson.

Guyana yesterday received a shipment of 5,000 doses of the Russian Sputnik V component two vaccine which arrived at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri at 12:00pm, the Ministry of Health said.

The Ministry of Health yesterday said that as of August 22, 2021, three more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) has defended its decision to use the American Petroleum Institute’s (API) standards, protocols, guidelines and recommended practices as its benchmark implementations for the oil and gas sector here saying they offer numerous benefits.

Following complaints from defence attorney Glenn Hanoman of vital missing notes of evidence in the appeal filed by Michael Abrams to his conviction for raping and sodomizing a young girl, the Guyana Court of Appeal has ordered the prosecution to make efforts at retrieving the apparent missing pieces.

A 27-year-old man is wanted by the police in connection with the murder of Rosignol, Berbice resident, Feroze Khan last week.

Over 200 residents in Bartica, Region Seven benefitted from the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security’s spectacles distribution exercise yesterday, according to the Department of Public Information (DPI).

As part of India’s 75th Independence Anniversary celebrations, the High Commission of India organised an Indian Cultural Evening on 15th August 2021 at the Swami Vivekananda Cultural Centre in Bel Air.

The Essequibo Technical Institute (ETI), located at Anna Regina, in Region Two, is positioned for transformation in the coming months with the appointments of a new Principal and Chairman of the Board.

A Cumberland Village, East Canje, Berbice, teenager remains hospitalized at the New Amsterdam Public Hospital after he was attacked by another teenager, who remains in police custody for questioning over the incident.

Guyana-born scientist, Vidia Surendra Roopchand, who is a Principal Research Scientist at US COVID vaccine manufacturer, Pfizer will speak virtually to his alma mater, the University of Guyana, where he got his foundational degree in Chemistry in 1990.

A 33-year-old East La Penitence vendor was yesterday remanded to prison after being charged with being one of the three men who carried out an armed attack on a man along Regent Street.

A Peters Hall man was yesterday  granted bail after being arraigned on two counts of armed robbery.

The Ministry of Health today said that as of August 22, 2021, three more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

Four persons were today charged with the murder of Keon McPherson, who was found dead in a ‘C’ Field, Sophia yard with gunshot wounds about his body a week ago.

Minister of Agriculture, Zulfikar Mustapha yesterday spearheaded the distribution of the Government’s flood relief cash grants at several locations in East Berbice–Corentyne (Region Six) to the tune of around $1b, according to the Department of Public Information (DPI).

A Swan Village labourer was on Saturday night fatally stabbed following an argument at a shop where he was drinking with friends and family.

Fuel starvation is suspected to be the main contributor to last Saturday’s crash-landing of Roraima Airways’ Britten-Norman Trislander at Eccles, East Bank Demerara, preliminary investigations by the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) have found, Minister of Public Works Juan Edghill said. 

Cedric Hopkinson, the man who was killed three Thursdays ago by fleeing bandits following a robbery at a Superbet outlet at Orange Walk and Bourda was said to be a popular artisan who crafted leather and jewellery and plied his trade outside of the Shamdas Kirpalani Store on Regent Street.