Guyana News

Mental Health Unit Director, Dr Util Thomas was fired in January but was last week informed that she would be rehired and will be posted to the East Coast of Demerara Enterprise Health Centre instead.

A nineteen-year-old labourer was on Saturday night crushed to death in an accident on the Craig, East Bank Demerara (EBD) Public Road.

Windsor Forest pensioner, 66-year-old Fiuz Hussaine was fatally struck by a vehicle on the public road yesterday.

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Tuesday requested a meeting with the management of Morning Glory Inc, popularly known as the Anna Regina Cereal Plant.

Two new cases of COVID-19 were yesterday reported by the Ministry of Health.

Introduction As countries around the world begin to re-open their borders following a two-year hiatus due to COVID-19 lockdowns, the Barbados Tourism Authority (BTA) is sending signals that Barbados is open for business as one of the major tourist destinations in the Caribbean.

PNCR Leader Aubrey Norton yesterday said that the Chair of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Justice of Appeal (rtd) Claudette Singh must go.

President Irfaan Ali yesterday announced that as part of his Government’s economic development programme, a large-scale poultry hatchery and egg production project has been earmarked for Pakuri Village.

Fiuz Hussaine, age 66,  of  Windsor Forest, West Coast Demerara (WCD) died this morning following an accident.

Sachin Persaud, 19, of Lot 69 Avenue ‘A’ Diamond, East Bank Demerara (EBD) died last night following an accident at Craig, EBD.

Police Sergeant Kwame Kellman, 34,  died as a result of a fatal incident which occurred about 23:55 hours last night on the Lusignan Public Road.

Amid a feud over statements about the Trinidadian economy in comparison to Guyana, Port-of-Spain-based businessman Derek Chin has encouraged business people as well as people from all walks of life to head to this country where he said that opportunities are plentiful.

Ahead of a hearing this week on a challenge to the decision by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) against requiring an environmental study for the new Demerara Harbour Bridge, environmentalist Simone Mangal-Joly has reported that the regulatory body has failed to provide critical information needed to make a decision on the project.

While the opposition is mulling possible legal action over Speaker Manzoor Nadir’s proposed amendments to Member of Parliament David Patterson’s motion on full liability coverage for ExxonMobil’s operations in Guyana, former Speaker Ralph Ramkarran has said that the Standing Orders do empower the Speaker to reject or proposed amendments to a motion.

Former Auditor General Anand Goolsarran says the APNU+AFC government erred in not selling the Marriott Hotel and the current PPP/C administration should dispose of it and ease the burden on taxpayers who are footing the bill on a loan default incurred by the entity.

United States Deputy Assistant Secretary for Caribbean Affairs and Haiti Barbara Feinstein on Friday met with civil society group Article 13 and a number of issues ranging from the “overwhelming powers” of the President to the government’s recent attack on civil society bodies were raised by the group.

Government is open to civil society scrutiny but will not sit idly by and allow lies to be spread by organisations that claim to be apolitical but are partisan, Vice President Bharat Jagdeo has said.

Region Four Chairman Daniel Seeram, who was under investigation for allegedly threatening his father-in-law earlier this month, will be charged and is scheduled to appear in court on March 31.

A 19-year-old marketing clerk was arrested yesterday morning after a search at her Tucville, Georgetown home unearthed over 37 pounds of cannabis hidden under her bed.

Days after they were arrested for questioning in relation to the theft of supplies from the Ministry of Health’s drugs bond at Diamond, East Bank Demerara (EBD), a doctor and retired Guyana Defence Force (GDF) officer remain in custody.