Guyana News

A Surinamese man, 64-year-old Newienchander Ramdin has been missing in Paramaribo since April 3, 2022 and his relatives believe he is in Guyana.

The Guyana Police Force yesterday received 10 brand new 9mm pistols and over 3000 matching rounds of ammunition from private security firm VxL Security South America Inc.

By Shuntel Glasgow Despite warnings since October 9 last year that they had to move to make way for an East Bank road link, Mocha Arcadia squatters yesterday defied attempts by the Ministry of Housing to evict them and a standoff developed with dozens of residents and members of the opposition arriving on the scene.

The Mahaicony fisherman who died following a confrontation with police on Sunday was shot three times and a cop who was also fatally wounded had two bullet wounds, according to autopsies conducted yesterday.

The financial viability of the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) has been restored as of 2022, according to the entity’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Shaik Baksh.

Construction worker, 30-year-old Andrew Ridley of Lot 173 Campbell and Sussex streets, Albouystown, Georgetown, and his alleged accomplice Akelow Marshall, 20, of Lot 237 Independence Boulevard, La Penitence, Georgetown, were yesterday remanded to prison over the murder of businessman Shimron Adams.

The 160 million Euro (€) loan agreement that was signed last week for the building of the New Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB) formed part of the financing model proposed by the Chinese contractor, Senior Minister in the Office of the President with Responsibility for Finance, Dr Ashni Singh says.

An investigation has been launched by the Guyana Fire and Rescue Service (GFS) to ascertain the cause of a blaze which destroyed a two-storey house at 3B New Road, Vreed-en-Hoop, West Demerara yesterday morning.

While high iron content in the water being distributed by GWI is a problem that the entity has been trying to address for years, customer interference and poorly maintained storage tanks have been  major contributing factors, says the Head of Water Quality Avinash Parsram.

A Guyana Power and Light  (GPL) pole near Blankenburg, West Coast Demerara broke yesterday morning at 5.19, knocking 53 megawatts (MW) of power out of the system and triggering widespread blackouts.

Tenders were opened on Thursday at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board for the supply of four tractors to the Guyana Sugar Corporation.

It has been over a month since the slashed and lifeless body of 56-year-old Orin Bishop also known as ‘Gassa’ was found lying in a patch of bushes along the Greenfield South Access road on the East Coast of Demerara and no one has since been charged with his murder.

Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand yesterday afternoon turned the sod for the construction of an aquatic therapy pool for learners with Special Education Needs. 

The government is moving aggressively to establish a massive hatching egg industry to support Guyana’s burgeoning poultry sector, the Department of Public Information (DPI) reported yesterday.

Rayon Speede, a 21-year-old miner of Bartica was yesterday charged with committing a robbery with violence last Friday against Muneshwar Poorandai.

Sixty-two year old Tiwatty Nandalall, of Jib, Region Two, is still in shock after her two-bedroom house was completely gutted on Thursday last.

A carjacking accused from Kuru Kuru College Road was yesterday held with suspected stolen car parts.

President Irfaan Ali today bestowed Guyana’s second highest award, the Order of Roraima, on the Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Dr Ralph Gonsalves.

The Ministry of Health today said that as of January 2nd, 2023, three more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

-mother says wounded son left for four hours A corporal attached to the Mahaicony Police Station and a 20-year-old fisherman were fatally wounded during the wee hours of Sunday by ranks who were responding to a report of a stabbing.