Guyana News

Two mining camp workers were yesterday found dead in their hammocks at Black Water Backdam, Cuyuni River.

Three armed bandits posing as customers yesterday carried out a daring robbery at a Gordon Street, Kitty gold establishment and escaped with over $50M worth in cash and raw gold.

When 39-year-old Tanesha Fredericks started working at a local subsidiary of Trinidad Oil Company – Centipede Offshore (Guyana) Inc, she had no idea that several months later she would be unable to turn on a tap because of the injuries she would sustain as a result of handling toxic chemicals and cleaning agents without proper gloves.

One of the two men who were recently freed of murdering West Berbice teenager Isaiah Henry was yesterday re-charged while his co-accused is also expected to face the court again.

President of the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA), K.A Juman-Yassin yesterday said that the “buck stops with him” over the predominantly red uniforms worn by Guyana’s competitors at the Tokyo Olympics.,

Two women from Region Five are the country’s latest COVID-19 fatalities and 84 new cases of the virus have been reported.

Detectives in Region Six are intensifying the hunt for the female mastermind and her male accomplice in connection with the murder of Hemraj Pardesi of Reliance Settlement, East Canje, Berbice His body was discovered in his yard during the wee hours of Wednesday.

Guyana has joined the Media Freedom Coalition. The British High Commission and the High Commission of Canada stated in a joint release yesterday that the two countries on Tuesday officially welcomed Guyana as a member of the Media Freedom Coalition.

Mayor of the Town of Anna Regina, Rajendra Prabhulall, is maintaining that there will be no roadside vending from today and all vendors will be relocated to the Bush Lot market at Cotton Field.

An inquest has been ordered by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to determine the circumstances of the death of Anthony Pakanram, who was fatally stabbed at Providence over a week ago.

A post-mortem examination conducted on thirty-two-year-old Venezuelan national, Ilan Antonio Singh who was found in the alleyway aback of SleepIn Hotel on Church Street has ruled that the hotdog vendor died as a result of blunt trauma to his head and strangulation.

Granted a stay of the default judgment for which damages were to be assessed and imposed against Vice President (VP) Bharrat Jagdeo for defaming former government minister Annette Ferguson, the assessment-hearing which had been set for last Wednesday did not come off. 

A number of Government ministries have put out notices making it known that unvaccinated persons will be barred from entry unless an appointment is made.

The injured teen Johnny Persaud, who was involved in the recent fatal accident at Diamond, East Bank Demerara, has regained consciousness and is now breathing on his own.

World Bank Vice President for Latin America and the Caribbean, Carlos Felipe Jaramillo and Country Director for the Caribbean, Lilia Burunciuc, completed their first official visit to Guyana yesterday and pledged to make a real impact on improving the lives of people here. 

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GTT) yesterday donated six Blu G70 smartphones, SIMs and $1,000 Top Up on each phone to the Future Economic Development Strategy Cooperative Society Limited (FEDS) in Linden.

A six-year-old drowned on Wednesday at Tiger Creek Backdam, in Region Eight.

The Ministry of Health says that it has seen a significant increase over the past few days, in the number of persons coming out to receive their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.

The cause of death of a Stanleytown, New Amsterdam, man whose car ended up in a trench along the Warren Public Road, East Coast Berbice, was drowning.

US Ambassador Sarah-Ann Lynch yesterday visited a medical outreach underway in Mabaruma and which the US Embassy is a part of.