Guyana News

The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) and the union GAWU yesterday reached a deal on compensation for striking Albion Estate harvesters whose daily output has been affected by flood damage to canes.

Minister of Public Works Juan Edghill yesterday announced that his Ministry will be spending $100m to rehabilitate the Onderneeming Road in Region Two.

The Ministry of Health yesterday said that as of September 18, 2021, twelve more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

A twenty-six-year-old Mabaruma resident died on Saturday and two others are critical after the vehicle they were traveling in toppled in the vicinity of Tiger Hill, North West District.

A speeding Georgetown/Timehri route minibus is alleged to have been the cause of a five-vehicle accident last night at Bagotstown, East Bank Demerara.

Italian yacht manufacturing company Azimut is now open for business here.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) yesterday requested proposals for the design and supervision of the construction of a new headquarters building at Plantation Pattensen, Greater Georgetown.

The Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) is to conduct a lottery of medium scale mining blocks.

The U.S. Naval Ship (USNS) Burlington conducted a joint training exercise with the Guyana Defence Force Coast Guard on September 18.

A 27-year-old man is currently hospitalized at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) after he was riddled with bullets fired by a man in the wee hours of yesterday while he was standing outside of a shop in ‘D’ Field Sophia.

A 49-year-old Parfaite Harmonie goldsmith was on Saturday night assaulted and robbed by three men armed with a handgun and knives.

The Government of Guyana is offering a limited number of scholarships at the Master’s Degree level in oil and gas and other areas at the Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen in the United Kingdom.

President Irfaan Ali on Saturday told the Sixth Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) that never again must the region be held hostage to vaccine nationalism and it must therefore combine resources.

Residents in several communities in East Berbice, Region Six are to benefit from improved access to potable water.

Noting that the APNU+AFC administration spent less than US$2 million for two air bridges for the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA),  Timehri,  former Minister of Public Infrastructure David Patterson is questioning what led to an almost 20% increase for the new air bridges being procured.

UK oil company Tullow Oil last week disclosed that while it will be focussing its exploration expertise on unlocking additional value from the company’s asset base, it is also limiting its capital exposure in Guyana and Argentina.

A 44-year-old vendor was on Saturday night robbed at her stall at National Avenue, South Ruimveldt by a man with a gun.

The Ministry of Health today said that as of September 18, 2021, twelve more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

Security guard Sigmol Gouveia, 26, of Block A, Sophia was last night fatally stabbed at a dockyard at Vreed-en-Hoop stelling, West Coast Demerara.

Close to 200 of the Albion Estate’s cane harvesters took to the streets yesterday to protest for financial assistance due to the impact of the May/June floods, which damaged the estate’s sugar cane, resulting in a drastic drop in their weekly earnings since the start of the new crop.