Guyana News

Bandits this morning reportedly carted off millions of dollars in gold from a Gordon Street, Kitty gold establishment.

The National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) yesterday saw a turnout of 95%, according to a release today from the Ministry of Education.

A Reliance Settlement, East Canje, Berbice man was murdered yesterday and money he had withdrawn from a bank the day before was carted off by the killers.

Police on patrol at Samaroo Dam, Pouderoyen, West Bank Demerara, who on Tuesday night were in the process of arresting a man for possession of cannabis, subsequently arrested two others for assaulting a police officer and for disorderly behaviour after they tried preventing the initial arrest.

Unvaccinated staff of the Maritime Administration Department (MARAD) continued to be off the job yesterday for a second day in the working week as the agency maintains its push for staff to be inoculated against the COVID-19 virus.

Minister of Public Works, Juan Edghill yesterday facilitated the signing of three multi-million-dollar contracts for the upgrading of facilities at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) Corporation, Timehri.

Bids were on Tuesday opened at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board for the restoration of  City Hall.

The country now has two more COVID-19 deaths along with 62 new cases.

Over 14,000 Essequibians, which accounts for 46.5% of the adult population in the county, have taken the first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, according to Region Two, Regional Health Officer (RHO), Dr Ranjeev Singh.

On Monday August 9th, Justice Jo-Ann Barlow will rule on whether Chief Election Officer (CEO) Keith Lowenfield will be granted injunctive relief prohibiting the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) from hearing a notice of motion for his dismissal. 

(Barbados Nation) A former cop and a Guyanese national were both remanded to Her Majesty’s Prison Dodds earlier yesterday, after being arraigned on drugs and ammunition charges.

Two men who died in an accident at Airy Hall, Essequibo on August 1st suffered multiple injuries, their autopsies showed.

Twenty-eight cases of suspected human trafficking were investigated by the Guyana Police Force from last August to April of this year.

Approximately $80 million has been invested for the drilling of two wells in Region Seven, as the Ministry of Housing and Water aims to achieve 95 percent hinterland water coverage.

A convicted robber was yesterday remanded after he denied two armed robbery charges.

Yesterday morning, a six-member Interim Management Committee (IMC) was installed for the Guyana National Co-operative Credit Union Limited (GNCCUL) in the Ministry of Labour’s boardroom, Lot 82 Brickdam St.

Two former employees of Gafsons Industries Limited have been released on $150,000 bail each after they denied stealing air conditioning units from the company and conspiring to defraud it.

A homeless man yesterday asked to do community service instead of serving time in jail after admitting to stealing a woman’s purse.

A man was yesterday placed on $25,000 bail after he denied snatching a woman’s purse containing articles amounting to $68,000.

High Court Judge Gino Persaud has said that he will first hear and determine the application filed by Attorney General Anil Nandlall SC to strike President Irfaan Ali’s name from the action brought by the Police Service Commission (PSC) regarding the annual promotion of police officers, before dealing with the substantive matter.