Guyana News

The Ministry of Health today said that as of September 26, 2021, ten more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

Guyana’s fight against the coronavirus (COVID-19) has been boosted with a $205.8 million (US $1,029,000) grant from the Government of Japan, the Department of Public Information (DPI) said.

Leaving Guyana in 2019 under the Nalco Champion name following objections from residents to its building of a chemicals warehouse at Industrial Site, Ecolab’s upstream company ChampionX has returned to Guyana aiming to provide undisclosed services for the oil and gas sector.

The five pairs of elevators installed in the overhead pedestrian crossings along the East Bank of Demerara remain inoperable.

The Trinidadian firm which has won the $780m contract to rehabilitate the neo-gothic City Hall boasts of experience in restoring buildings to their architectural glory.

Trucks are still being prevented by protesters from transporting goods from Bonfim, Brazil to Lethem but the situation in the Guyanese border town has improved as supplies have arrived by road and via the Ireng River.

The Matthews Ridge-based Guyana Manganese Inc (GMI) has advertised vacancies for several positions at the company including a mining engineer.

The maker of ASHDEL’s Instant Porridge mix is continuously looking for ways to shorten time spent in the kitchen.

Gregory Wickham was elected president of the East Coast Demerara Football Association (ECDFA), when the entity staged its constitutionally mandated electoral congress yesterday at the Beterverwagting (BV) Primary School.

Attorney General (AG) Anil Nandall SC has said that the COVID-19 measures implemented by Government which are aimed at increasing vaccination among citizens “can withstand constitutional and legal scrutiny from any court.”

The Government has extended by four days its Request for Proposals (RFP) for the Amaila Falls Hydropower Project (AFHP), which is expected to begin construction next year.

Declaring that it is time for accountability in the country, A New and United Guyana (ANUG) yesterday called for a Coroner’s Inquest into the death of Orin Boston at the hands of the police on September 14th at Dartmouth, Essequibo Coast.

Senior Minister in the Office of the President with responsibility for Finance, Dr Ashni Singh on Saturday toured the various operation sites at Zijin Mining, operators of the Aurora gold mine in Region 7.

Frontera Energy Corporation on Friday disclosed that it has entered into a term sheet for a US$20 million rights offering bridge loan that will enable CGX Energy to continue to fund its share of costs related to the Corentyne, Demerara and Berbice blocks, the Berbice Deepwater Port, and other budgeted costs in Guyana.

Police on Saturday arrested a female passenger on a bus which was driving along the Fort Wellington Public Road, Berbice after she was found in possession of 2721.5 grams of cannabis.

The Guyana Fire Service has concluded that the blaze which destroyed a house and two vehicles in the Vigilance Police Station Compound, East Coast Demerara last Tuesday was the work of arson.

Dissatisfied that the Guyana Court of Appeal affirmed a 23-year sentence imposed upon him by a High Court judge for the rape and vicious beating of a woman, Calvin Ramcharran has appealed all the way to the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ).

Minister of Public Works, Juan Edghill has told residents of Onderneeming that their community will soon be getting a police outpost.

An 18-year-old youth has been arrested after he was discovered with a gun and matching ammunition in a bag he was carrying.

Frontera on Friday disclosed that downhole drilling operations at the Kawa-1 well site offshore Guyana have been without any significant issues and well results thus far are consistent with the Company’s pre-drill geological and geophysical expectations.