Guyana News

The National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) yesterday distanced itself from a decision to retender a contract, as claimed by the Ministry of Agriculture, and its Board will meet next week to discuss the issue.

Having found that there was no proper monitoring system in place at the breached reservoir owned by Guyana Manganese Inc.

The Ministry of Health yesterday reported the deaths of five more persons with COVID-19, including a 92-year-old man.

Six months after he was gunned down outside the Palm Court bar on Main Street, the family of Ricardo Fagundes last evening demanded answers from the police on the state of their investigation.

A probe by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has concluded that the recent pollution on the Kingston seashore, Georgetown was a result of waste oil being dumped into the Demerara River.

Guyana has engaged the Secretary-General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro on recent attempts by Venezuela’s government and opposition to use the border controversy between the two countries as a point of negotiation.

An Upper Berbice River logger was on Monday remanded to prison over the murder of Kevin Hercules, whose body was discovered floating downwards in the Berbice River last Tuesday.

A policeman and a robbery suspect were both shot in their thighs during a scuffle on Leopold Street yesterday.

A Stanleytown, New Amsterdam man died yesterday afternoon after he lost control of his vehicle and crashed into a parked lorry on the Beterverwagting Railway Embankment, East Coast Demerara.

A total of 164 persons were up to yesterday morning hospitalized across Guyana with COVID-19 and Minister of Health Dr.

The Environmental Assessment Board (EAB) will be facilitating a public hearing tomorrow into all appeals submitted against the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) decision not to require an impact assessment for the York Investment Inc quarry mining project.

A guard attached to the MMC Security Service was discovered dead at her workplace yesterday morning and the police have launched a probe to determine the circumstances surrounding her passing.

The border between Lethem and Bonfim in Brazil remains closed until such time as both governments decide it is safe and reasonable to allow border crossings.

Australian mining company Troy Resources Limited yesterday announced that current Non-Executive Director, Richard Beazley, will assume the role of interim CEO and Managing Director, effective immediately following the sudden death on Monday of CEO, Ken Nilsson.

A Lamaha Park woman who was injured in an accident over a week ago, succumbed on Monday to injuries sustained.

Foreign Ministers of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) yesterday impressed upon United States Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman the urgency for the delivery of the second tranche of donations of Pfizer vaccines from the US.

Once bustling with bars, snackettes and miners, the landing which serves as the core of the gold mining community in the Marudi Mountains in the Rupununi has become eerily desolate – a ghost town filled with nothing but empty shacks and a handful of persons as a years-long stalemate between prospectors and the regulatory authorities continues.

Region Two is currently experiencing an increase of Covid-19 with 23 persons having died from the virus to date and 158 active cases.

Works on the new well at Lusignan, East Coast Demerara are progressing as planned despite some minor setbacks.

The Ministry of Health (MOH) today said that as of September 20, 2021, five more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.