Guyana News

The National Assembly’s Constitutional Reform Committee met only twice this year due to COVID-19 constraints but this should not be seen as non-commitment to the process by the PPP/C government, Attorney General and Chairman of the body Anil Nandlall says.

As it announced a rollout of state-of-the-art mobile service in Region Two, Digicel Guyana has called on the government to free up spectrum for the expansion and upgrade of its services.

The government has issued a Request For Proposals (RFP) to restart the scrapped Amaila Falls Hydro Project, for which it wants construction to begin by the second half of 2022.

The police suspect foul play after the body of a man was found dead in a fuel truck along the Tuschen Public Road, East Bank Essequibo, in the wee hours of Saturday morning.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) yesterday confirmed that five more people who were infected with COVID-19 have died.

Some residents of Kwakwani, in Region 10, are bracing themselves for more losses as floodwaters in the community are once again rising. 

With a language barrier seen as a challenge to vaccination against COVID-19 in some parts of Region One, Minister of Health Dr Frank Anthony has said a specialised campaign may have to be undertaken.

After a competitive year-long application process, Capoey Lake, Essequibo Coast resident Sara Henry has secured a scholarship to read for her Master’s Degree under the Ireland Fellows Programme for Small Island Developing States (SIDS) Henry, a Senior Planning and Monitoring Officer at the Protected Areas Commission (PAC), is the first Guyanese to be afforded the opportunity under the programme.

The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) has said that Chair of the Trade Union Recognition Board Dr Nanda Gopaul has still to acknowledge a complaint lodged by it against the government over its requests to begin negotiations on wages and salaries. 

A clerk who was waiting to pay workers was robbed of $2 million by armed robbers at Caneview Avenue, in South Ruimveldt, on Friday afternoon, according to the police, who say three suspects have since been held.

A Vigilance man was arrested on Friday after he was found with a plastic gun following a failed bid to escape from the police.

A man was apprehended by police on Thursday after a teen reported that he raped her in April at a store in Region Seven.

Minister of Housing and Water Collin Croal on Saturday commissioned an upgraded water distribution system at St.

The Ministry of Public Works says it has observed that a section of the recently completed Hauraruni Access Road (Phase I) on the East Bank of Demerara has collapsed within the last twenty-four hours.

The Ministry of Health today said that as of July 23, 2021, five more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

Minister of Local Government and Regional Development Nigel Dharamlall today handed over a $9 million subvention cheque to Bartica, the Department of Public Information (DPI) reported.

Party Leader David Granger on Friday said the Central Executive Committee (CEC) of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) has not seen and therefore has not considered any no-confidence motions against him.

Edward B. Beharry and Company Limited is among the first companies in Guyana to implement a policy to protect vaccinated workers by mandating that staff who have not received a COVID-19 vaccine provide evidence of a negative PCR test result every five days.

A former member of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) was on Friday committed to stand trial for murder of businessman Godfrey ‘Sagga’ Scipio, while his co-accused was freed of the charge.

Fielding a series of questions from curious West Bank of Demerara residents on the US$900 million Wales gas-to-shore project, ExxonMobil representative Friedrich Krispin on Thursday disclosed that only a small portion of mangroves will be removed to facilitate the transportation of materials during the construction phase.