Guyana News

Blairmont Estate, the home of ‘Demerara Gold’ sugar commenced the harvesting of its second crop of 2022 on Friday, July 15, according to a release from GuySuCo.

Twenty-year-old Dacia Daniels and Nakasia Bernard, 23, both of Phase 2, East Ruimveldt, Georgetown, were on Wednesday charged with three counts of assault.

The Ministry of Health yesterday reported that 80 new cases of COVID-19 have been detected.

President Irfaan Ali in his capacity as Commander-in-Chief, on Wednesday badged 67 new Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Officers, during a Commissioning Parade held in their honour, at the Drill Square, Base Camp Ayanganna.

The Environmental Assessment Board (EAB) today  tossed out a decision by the EPA not to require an impact survey for a project to store radioactive sources  in the East Bank Demerara (EBD) community of Coverden.

The US$100 million Pegasus luxury suites and corporate centre, which is perhaps the largest single investment by a Guyanese person, was commissioned last evening with proprietor Robert Badal hailing it as “historic” and “unrivalled in the region.”

A fire of unknown origin ravaged the St. George’s High School on Wednesday afternoon, leaving hundreds of students displaced.

Leader of the Opposition Aubrey Norton yesterday submitted a motion to the Clerk of the National Assembly calling for an international investigation into the “alleged corrupt practices involving Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo.”

A New Amsterdam (NA) man was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with murder.

Citing its national importance, and having heard all the arguments yesterday, acting Chief Justice Roxane George SC has tentatively set August 11 to rule on whether the President’s appointment of Clifton Hicken as acting Commissioner of Police was lawfully done.

Minister of  Health, Dr Frank Anthony yesterday said a new Public Health Act is being developed and the first draft is expected within the next few weeks or months.

Guyana has maintained its Tier 1 ranking in the latest US State Department Trafficking in Persons’ Report and the government is being lauded for demonstrating “serious and sustained efforts” during the reporting period with some 216 trafficking victims identified from a total of 288 potential victims.

The Linden Mayor & City Council (M&CC) is in dire straits with over $270 million in debts, making it unable to pay NIS contributions, wages, utility bills and to perform services for the mining town.  

Guyanese magistrates Wanda Fortune and Peter Hugh recently attended a workshop in Barbados on practices and procedures Between July 14th and 16th, 2022 the Canadian Government-funded Improved Access to Justice in the Caribbean (IMPACT Justice) Project hosted the Workshop on Magisterial Practices and Procedures for regional magistrates.

The Ministry of Health yesterday said that a 68-year-old man from Region Two has succumbed to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).

Former Region Three AFC councillor Mandy Sukhdeo, her father, Surendra Sukhdeo, a Good Hope/Hydronie Neighbourhood Democratic Council APNU councillor and their neighbour Rean Ghani are set to face trial for the 2017 murder of Ruby fisherman Shereffudeen Nazamudeen.

A Corentyne man was on Tuesday sentenced to 16 years in prison after he was found guilty of the  rape of a child.

A shopkeeper and a gold miner were yesterday remanded to prison on the charge of attempted murder.

NASSAU, (Reuters) – A vessel delivering diesel to The Bahamas resort island of Great Exuma spilled around 35,000 gallons of the fuel early today, according to the country’s acting prime minister.

A fire this afternoon ravaged the St. George’s Secondary School on Church Street.