Guyana News

The amendments to the Petroleum Act were yesterday passed by the National Assembly after a grueling five hours of debate during which the opposition questioned the urgency and recommended further consultation.

President Irfaan Ali has ordered that freight charges be reduced to pre-pandemic levels in order to lower taxes on imports, thereby relieving consumers of higher prices that have been passed on due to higher shipping costs.

Former Guyana Water Inc head Dr. Richard Van West Charles, a director of Atlantic Fuels Inc.,

Former Antigua Prime Minister Sir Lester Bryant Bird has passed away.

Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GTT)  today announced in a press release that it will increase the basic salary for all employees for the year ending September 2021.

Eighteen million dollars in cash believed to be stolen during last week’s multi-million dollar robbery at gold trader Wallison Enterprise in Kitty was found buried in a West Bank Demerara back yard and two ranks of the Guyana Defence Force are currently in custody.

As places of business in the public and private sectors adopt and enforce the new requirement of showing proof of vaccination against COVID-19, Leader of the Opposition, Joseph Harmon, yesterday said he intends to request a Parliamentary discussion on “Mandatory Vaccination” during today’s sitting.

What started out as potholes have since developed into moon-like craters and when this newspaper visited the various communities within Parfaite Harmonie last week, it was observed that the poor state of the roads, beginning with the Access Road has now extended deep into the other communities.

Five patients from the National Psychiatric Hospital located at Fort Canje, Region Six, remain on the run following a fire believed to have been started by a patient at around 9:15pm on Saturday.

The death of 19-year-old Joel Skeete, the University of Guyana student, who was found dead on the foreshore of the West Bank Demerara days after going missing remains a mystery as numerous questions were left unanswered, something his family has to live with.

A driver along with another passenger are critical at the Suddie Public Hospital after the vehicle they were in collided with a tree at Cullen, Region Two.

An alleged hit and run along Main Street, New Amsterdam, on Saturday around 7 pm has left a pedestrian hospitalised with a fractured skull at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

A twenty-three-year-old Pigeon Island pedal cyclist is currently a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) nursing injuries he received after he allegedly rode into the path of a car on the Chateau Margot Public Road, East Coast Demerara, Saturday night.

Unrelenting showers over the past two days have resulted in flood waters rising in the Mahaicony and Abary rivers further contributing to plight of residents in the Mahaicony/Mahaica/Abary (MMA) Development area.

International Norwegian-based global marine insurance company, Gard, has expressed concerns over the transshipment of bauxite from Guyana which showed significant signs of high moisture content on arrival at a port in the US back in June.

The United Arab Emirates Sheikh Ahmed Dalmook Juma Al Maktoum’s delegation that visited here in November of last year to seal a deal for Sputnik vaccines had returned later last year to look at agriculture investments but have not been heard from since, according to Minister of Agriculture Zulfikar Mustapha.

Region Two Regional Executive Officer Devanand Ramdatt is refuting an article that has surfaced on social media (Facebook) which he says is aimed at defaming his character.

Three persons from Region Four who had tested positive for COVID-19 have died, taking the overall death toll to 559 while another 50 persons have tested positive for the virus.

The Ministry of Health today said that as of August 07, 2021, three more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

Government has issued an order for the acquisition of land needed for the proposed construction of the onshore gas pipeline that is part of the US$900 million gas to energy project, which has been declared a public work.