Guyana News

Region Six’s primary and nursery schools reopened yesterday for face-to-face learning but while there was a poor turnout of students overall, parents who opted to send their children to school were happy with the arrangements.

A casual visitor to the town of Linden, in Region Ten on Monday could be forgiven for thinking it was a holiday.

A 26-year-old Wakenaam man was yesterday apprehended by residents of the community after he allegedly chopped his father to death during an argument.

The police on Sunday found a total of 44 pounds of cannabis with an estimated street value of $6.6 million in a car that was abandoned on the eastern side of the Wismar Bridge, at Linden, after the occupants fled the moving vehicle as law enforcers approached.

With government moving to place greater restrictions on access to public spaces by unvaccinated persons, Health Minister Dr Frank Anthony yesterday said the decision was driven by the need to ensure public safety.

Guyana on Monday confirmed the deaths of six more persons who had COVID-19, taking the country’s death toll from the virus to 647.

With Region Two recording an increase in coronavirus cases, the Region’s Task Force will be taking the necessary actions to ensure that businesses and residents adhere to the COVID-19 measures, while calls continue for more persons to get vaccinated.

With their parents eager for the resumption of face-to-face learning, hundreds of children in Region Two have already received their first Pfizer jabs under the adolescent COVID-19 vaccination campaign that is now underway.

On the one-year anniversary of the discovery of the mutilated bodies of West Coast Berbice (WCB) teenagers Joel and Isaiah Henry, President Irfaan Ali said the government supports the Guyana Police Force (GPF) in its efforts to ensure that the perpetrators of the crime face the “fully penalty” of the law.

A man was shot while another escaped during a confrontation over a claimed counterfeit $5,000 bill outside of a Diamond, East Bank Demerara (EBD) supermarket last night.

Several persons were injured after a minibus and pick-up collided last night at the junction of Croal Street and Avenue of the Republic, Georgetown.

An Upper Corentyne teenager is now hospitalised with a chop wound after a row over a pig between his father and another man ended in an armed conflict on Sunday.

Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) inspectors last Friday seized 50 dial scales, not approved for commercial use, from vendors at the Stabroek and Bourda markets in Georgetown.

The Guyana Association of Bankers Inc today said it will be adopting the new COVID-19 regulations unveiled by the government on Saturday including the requirement for vaccinations.

The Ministry of Health today said  that as of September 05, 2021, six more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

Health Minister Dr Frank Anthony this morning said the decision to extend COVID-19 vaccine requirements for public access to privately-owned facilities was driven by the need to ensure public safety.

Transparency Institute  Guyana Inc (TIGI) has flayed government’s unilateral decision and the undisclosed terms of the deal with Saudi Arabian company, Aramco Trading Limited to market this country’s next 1 million barrels of oil. 

Persons who want to enter privately-owned buildings to which the public has lawful access now have to be vaccinated or alternatively will have to show evidence of a recent negative PCR test or make an appointment.

Maintaining that they were given short notice to prepare and submit projects for the upcoming 2022 budget, Region Four APNU+AFC councillors yesterday slammed Regional Executive Officer (REO) Donald Gajraj for failing to inform them in a timely manner and accused him of disenfranchising residents from the process. 

The current ideological leanings of the People’s Progressive Party are “not extremely clear” but it is definitely no longer Marxist/Leninist.