Guyana News

Parliament is to meet on Monday, December 13th when the report of the Auditor General on the Public Accounts for the year 2020 will be presented along with a number of performance audit reports including one on the COVID-19 Pandemic Assistance Voucher Programme.

A week after Veronica Lewis, 78,  was killed in a hit-and-run accident on Lamaha Street, police are still to make an arrest.

The Government of China on Wednesday presented a cheque for $7m to the University of Guyana (UG).

Justice Priya Sewnarine-Beharry yesterday dismissed an application by former Attorney General Basil Williams SC that she recuse herself from presiding over a 2017 libel case brought against him by now Attorney General Anil Nandlall SC in relation to Commonwealth Law Reports.

Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand has given directives to the Chief Education Officer to grant a waiver for the issuance of permanent certificates to all teachers who have completed five years of post-graduate training.

President Irfaan Ali yesterday said that the government is seeking partnerships with universities to establish a biodiversity research centre in Guyana even as he boasted about the high forest cover.

Guyana yesterday received some 42,120 doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine through the COVAX facility.

The statue of famous trade unionist, Hubert Nathaniel Critchlow, located in the compound of Public Buildings, George-town, was rededicated on Thursday evening, 57 years after it was first unveiled.

The Ministry of Health yesterday said that as of December 06, 2021, two more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

A man found at a marijuana camp was yesterday charged with trafficking in narcotics and the cultivation of prohibited plants.

A former Berbice journalist who came from humble beginnings, and was raised to believe that a woman’s sole purpose is to be a housewife, has defeated the odds and was sworn in as an attorney-at-law last month.

Environmental Resources Management (ERM), the company contracted by ExxonMobil to conduct the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for the Yellowtail well development, has since apologised for “mistakenly” releasing the findings of the EIA with the signature of consultant Shyam Nokta.

Newly-appointed Chief Elections Officer (CEO) for the PNCR 2021 Congress, Vincent Alexander is set to provide a report on Wednesday to the party’s Central Executive Committee on its readiness for Saturday’s scheduled 21st Biennial Delegates Congress or whether it will have to be postponed to next year.

Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly Lenox Shuman yesterday berated the PPP/C government for not consulting with the Indigenous Peoples and he cited the South Rupununi mining deal as an example and called for its rescinding.

One year after a joint venture between Trinidad Offshore Fabricators Unlimited (TOFCO) and Guyana Oil and Gas Support Services (GOGSSI), the company has landed a big project with ExxonMobil’s prime contractor Saipem and is looking to hire key staff.

The safety of Guyana’s proposed gas-to-shore pipeline is being questioned based on available plans and critics have also taken aim at the lack of information from the government.

Lawmen at Weldaad Police Station, West Berbice  yesterday afternoon intercepted a motor car transporting $12.5M worth of cannabis and two men have been arrested.

The spring tide has caused a resident living near the Boerasirie Creek, Region Three to be affected by flooding after the water gushed out from a section that was not fixed when sea defence work was carried out. 

Lima Sands residents are breathing a sigh of relief now that the government has heeded their call for better roads.

The police are probing the death of a vagrant at the Westminster Housing Scheme, West Bank Demerara.