Guyana News

The government’s education cash grant of $19,000 for each public school student was rolled out in Regions Three and Five over the weekend.

Fifty per cent of Guyana’s adult population have so far received the first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine which the Minister of Health regards as a significant achievement.

The police are searching for two masked men who carried out a robbery on Monday night at the Sir Gas Station at New Road, Vreed-en-Hoop, West Coast Demerara, where two employees were assaulted.

A Mackenzie man was yesterday sentenced to one year in prison after he pleaded guilty to a break and enter and larceny.

The Private Sector Commission today said it will support any action taken by the government to protect the COVID-19-vaccinated population from those who have decided not to take the vaccine.

The Ministry of Health today said that 50% of adults have now been vaccinated with a first dose of a COVID-19 shot.

By Readawne Henery Two teens remain critical following the accident at Diamond, East Bank Demerara (EBD) on Sunday that left two dead.

The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) last month successfully conducted its first kidney transplant surgery on a non-Guyanese patient.

While voicing concern at two recent incidents involving planes at interior airstrips, the  Aircraft Owners Association of Guyana (AOAG) has expressed shock at the reported intervention and statements by Minister of Public Works, Juan Edghill.

A `miracle’ baby who was given no chance of survival after being born four months premature has just turned 15 weeks old.

Delroy McKenzie, the man who was fatally wounded on Saturday night in Linden was shot nine times and investigators have since discovered a burnt vehicle, suspected to be the one used in the crime.

The National Sports Commission (NSC)  upon the direction of the Government of Guyana has entered into an agreement of sale for a parcel of land situated at Mandela Avenue vested in the National Sports Commission to Cevons Waste Management Inc.

As they continue to navigate the challenges of the floods which started back in May, families along the Mahaica, Mahaicony and Abary Rivers yesterday said they are in need of potable water.

The issue of overpayment once again consumed the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament yesterday after both the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security and the Guyana Police Force related having to recover significant sums which were overpaid in 2016.

Another COVID-19 fatality was yesterday reported along with 44 new cases of the virus.

The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) says that as part of the government’s commitment to re-open the Rose Hall Sugar Estate it will be conducting a “massive recruitment exercise” for various categories of field and factory workers on Thursday, July 22 2021 beginning  at 7.30 am at the Rose Hall Estate Compound.

A man who police say was found with an automatic pistol at the Stabroek Market was yesterday remanded to prison on two charges.

Twenty-five-year-old policeman Waylon Jordan yesterday afternoon walked out of the Sexual Offences Court of the  High Court in Georgetown a free man, after a jury acquitted him of the charge of raping a 17-year-old girl back in 2019.

The driver accused of causing last Tuesday’s Peters Hall, East Bank Public Road accident, which left police sergeant Rajendra Major in a critical condition, was charged with several offences last Friday.

Tenders were on July 13th opened at the National Procurement & Tender Administration Board for the Construction of the Mazaruni Prison, Region Seven which is estimated to cost $637 million.