Guyana News

Soon after St Gabriel Primary student Sophia Kerr entered her online classes as per normal last Monday morning her father heard her yelling that she couldn’t see anything.

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) yesterday began advertising to fill several critical positions, including that of the Chief Election Officer (CEO).

The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) came under intense public scrutiny yesterday after it unveiled an all-male Corporate Management team.

Guyanese international musician Eddy Grant has come out victorious in the first stage of a lawsuit he has initiated against former US President Donald Trump over the unauthorised use of his popular song ‘Electric Avenue.’

The Ministry of Health on Friday reported six more COVID-19 fatalities along with 228 new cases of the virus.

The government will begin distribution of 2022 pension booklets and the one-off $25,000 COVID cash grant for pensioners from Monday.

Twenty-five-year-old Mohammed Imran Khan, who has alleged that he was abducted and beaten, was remanded to prison on Friday on a charge of raping a child. 

Steve Atkinson and Jayson Atkinson, the father and son accused of abducting Essequibo bus driver Mohammed Imran Khan and battering him, were charged on Friday with assault causing actual bodily harm.

After three days of searches, the decomposed body of 39-year-old Harry Mangal of Abrams Creek body was found in the wee hours of Friday morning.

The police were yesterday looking for two men who robbed and brutalised a 60-year-old Corentyne businessman on Thursday evening.

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) is investigating the reported robbery of four persons at the Chico Ramos Gas Station, at Coldingen Public Road, East Coast Demerara on Thursday.

A man and a woman are now in custody after 847 grammes of cannabis were found in their home, the police have said.

A youth was released on $50,000 bail after a City Magistrate heard that he has agreed to fix the damage caused to a laptop he allegedly stole. 

The Ministry of Health today said that as of September 30, 2021, six more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

Bibi Nazeela Habiboodean and the man she man she hired to kill her father—Ruby businessman, Habiboodean—were this afternoon sentenced to death after a jury found them guilty of murder.

The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) today said that it has taken note of the “overwhelming number” of infrastructural works which are being handled by foreign-owned companies.

(Reuters) – Former Republican President Donald Trump must face copyright claims brought by “Electric Avenue” musician Eddy Grant over Trump’s alleged misuse of his song on a video he posted to Twitter, a Manhattan federal court ruled Tuesday.

Four companies – three Chinese and one Brazilian – have responded to government’s Request For Proposals (RFPs) for the resuscitation of the Amaila Falls Hydropower Project (AFHP), which is expected to begin construction by the middle of next year.

September, 2021 was the deadliest month of the COVID-19 pandemic with over 160 fatalities being recorded.

A 19-year-old electrician died yesterday morning shortly after he was shot and robbed of a gold chain after leaving his Festival City, Georgetown home.