Guyana News

Minister of Public Works, Juan Edghill and Minister within the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development Anand Persaud on Tuesday recommissioned McDougal and Owen Streets in Kitty, Georgetown.

Guyana has recorded three more COVID-19 fatalities all of whom are women.

Some 15,000 second doses of the Sputnik V vaccine have arrived in Guyana for the month of July allowing the Ministry of Health (MoH) to continue with its inoculation drive.

Chief Executive Officer of Hess Corporation John Hess yesterday reiterated that Guyana is key to the Company’s long-term strategy with multiple phases of low cost oil developments to come online during the next several years.

(Trinidad Guardian) A 25-year-old Guyanese woman has been fined TT$15,000 for evading immigration officers at the Piarco International Airport with the alleged assistance of a security guard.

A one-year-old baby boy was on Tuesday discovered by his mother floating in a fish pond at Sand Pit, Onderneeming, Essequibo Coast.

Two men facing separate multiple armed robbery charges were yesterday remanded by a City Magistrate.

A man and a woman who are facing multiple charges including assaulting peace officers and threatening behaviour were yesterday granted bail.

Police are investigating an alleged attempt to commit a felony on a 63-year-old male of Number Sixty-Three Village, Corentyne on July 16th by four masked men who were armed. 

The Ministry of Health today said that as of July 27, 2021, three more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab today announced that the UK is sending 84,800 doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to Guyana as part of the first batch of the 100 million doses the UK pledged to get the poorest parts of the world vaccinated as a matter of urgency.

The principals of Accelerated Capital Firm Inc (ACFI), Yuri Garcia and his wife Ateeka Ishmael yesterday faced 60 new charges of conspiracy to defraud but did not show up at the Sparendaam Magistrate’s court, according to a release from the police last night.

ExxonMobil today said it has made an oil discovery at Whiptail in the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana, its 21st major find here and adding to its nine billion barrels of recoverable resources.

Motions for the dismissal of three key GECOM employees have now been amended to allow for the termination of their contracts.

Oliver Permaul, Andre James and Rohan Johnson were yesterday discharged over the 2017 murder of Tain mother Leilawatie Mohamed, after High Court Judge Jo-Ann Barlow found no evidence against them.

Jason Yarris was on Monday sentenced to two years in prison on two separate charges of sexual assault.

Farmers of Buxton/ Friendship on the East Coast of Demerara will soon benefit from much-needed upgrades to their drainage and irrigation system.

The Ministry of Health  yesterday said that 53 new cases of COVID-19 were recorded.

The Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) yesterday said that it “regrets the death and mourns the passing of Brother George De Peana, a Guyanese and international trade unionist” who passed away on Monday.

A nonagenarian was among hundreds of individuals who were allocated house lots for low-income earners by the Central Housing and Planning Authority’s, ‘Dream Realised’ housing drive and Minister of Housing and Water, Collin Croal, yesterday called on applicants to trust the system as the authorities are working to resolve the backlog in the system.