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A Guyana Police Force Corporal was on Friday remanded to prison on three charges of engaging in corrupt transactions, after allegedly collecting money with the promise of making arrangements to have a prisoner released.
A woman was recently released on $30,000 bail after a city magistrate heard that she allegedly threatened and assaulted another woman.
The US Embassy today announced the donation by the United States Government of 57,600 doses of the Astra Zeneca COVID-19 vaccine as part of the Biden-Harris Administration’s global efforts to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Government of Guyana through the Guyana Office for Investment has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Caribbean International Distributors Inc.,
As investigators continue to hunt for the two gunmen who killed Brazilian Euclid Da Silva on Tuesday night, a known individual who is accused of recently threatening the dead man’s son surrendered to the police yesterday.
After more than two months of manoeuvring, the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) yesterday approved motions to terminate the employment contracts of the Chief Election Officer (CEO) Keith Lowenfield, Deputy Chief Election Officer (DCEO) Roxanne Myers and Region Four Returning Officer (RO) Clairmont Mingo.
Lindeners against the restrictions on access to health services in Region Ten aborted plans for continued protests and cleared a blockade from the Mackenzie/Wismar Bridge on Wednesday night after government decided to relax vaccine requirements.
Two days after three men were charged, the police last night issued wanted bulletins for three more suspects in last week’s $58 million robbery at Wallison Enterprise in Kitty.
Region Nine Regional Executive Officer (REO) Karl Singh, who recently shot a 25-year-old woman to her abdomen in Lethem, has returned to duty although the Office of the Director of Public Prose-cutions (DPP) is still to advise on whether he is to be charged with a crime.
As the government persists in its attempts to achieve herd immunity in Guyana, Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Dr Narine Singh has submitted new guidelines for vaccine exemptions to Permanent Secretary Malcolm Watkins.
Local health authorities are currently working on procuring vaccines for children in Guyana as final arrangements are being made for the arrival of the Johnson & Johnson and Sputnik V shots, according to Health Minister Dr Frank Anthony.
Although initially saying that they would be unable to operate without concessions, Caribbean Cinemas at the Giftland Mall and MovieTowne Guyana yesterday both announced plans to reopen.
Two new COVID-19 deaths were on Thursday reported, taking the country’s total death count from the virus to 569.
Unrelenting rainfall and overtopping rivers have left the business district of Eteringbang, Cuyuni-Mazaruni, Region Seven, flooded, with water levels as high as three to four feet, Regional Chairman Kenneth Williams yesterday informed.
Oceaneering International on Tuesday disclosed that ExxonMobil’s local affiliate, Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL), has awarded the company a contract to conduct two surveys offshore Guyana.
With the Maersk Discoverer drill ship now expected to arrive in Guyana on Sunday, Frontera Energy on Wednesday said that there has been a delay in the spudding of the Kawa-1 well on the Corentyne Block, offshore Guyana, which has now been pushed back to the end of this month.
Following talks, tractor operators in Region Six, who were hired to pump flood waters from inundated communities during recent flooding, have started to receive payments at the agreed $5,000 per hour rate.
The trial of Matthew Munroe, the taxi driver accused of murdering 23-year-old teacher Kescia Branche back in 2017, is set to commence in two weeks at the High Court in Georgetown.
The Attorney General and the Gibraltar/Fyrish Neighbourhood Democratic Council have filed a lawsuit against a Berbice resident, whom they accuse of fraudulently acquiring state lands.
United Nations (UN) Resident Coordinator Mikiko Tanaka will end her assignment in Guyana this month.
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