Guyana News

A Rosignol man who stabbed his ex-partner multiple times on Saturday morning while she was a passenger in a hire car, died yesterday morning after having consumed a poisonous substance.

Retired Assistant Commissioner of Police, Paul Slowe has castigated the breakdown in security at Friday’s `Baderation’ concert at the National Park which ended prematurely when gunshots were fired and glass bottles rained down on patrons.

A 31-year-old engineer was fatally stabbed yesterday morning following a confrontation with a coconut vendor.

Veteran internist, Dr. Ramsundar Doobay, MBBS, MRCP who spent nearly his entire career working at the Georgetown Public Hospital, passed away yesterday and the local medical fraternity has hailed him as a “hero”.

The Presidential Commission on the Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD) has lamented the weak implementation of the country’s tobacco control law and warned about e-cigarettes and hookahs.

The Ministry of Labour has launched an investigation into the deaths of two employees at Trans Rice Mill which occurred on Friday afternoon.

As he encouraged Guyanese to get booster jabs because of possible waning of antibody levels, Minister of Health Dr.

Police ranks who were on duty at the 70 KM Checkpoint, Region 7 (Cuyuni-Mazaruni), on May 28th arrested a 27-year-old man of Guyhoc Park, George-town, after he admitted ownership of 386 grams of suspected cannabis that was found in a vehicle in which he was an occupant.

At approximately 1.02 am on Saturday, customers in Demerara and Berbice experienced an interruption in electricity supply when a breaker connected to the 16 KVA transformer, which connects all the 13.8 KV feeders at the Sophia Substation developed a fault.

A young entrepreneur is on a mission to change the ‘basic’ style of furniture to one which is more appealing and creatively made.

The Guyana Manufacturing & Services Association (GMSA) has unveiled a new logo and website following the completion of its Re-Design competition.

The Ministry of Health yesterday reported 52 new cases of the COVID-19 virus.

The Ministry of Health today expressed condolences on the passing of Dr Ramsundar Doobay.

Better Hope engineer Neil Rampersaud succumbed today after he was stabbed during a confrontation with a coconut vendor.

Guyana’s fairly low overall score in implementing the requirements of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) is being primarily blamed on the government for its failure to enact the legislative changes for the holistic implementation of the recommendations.

Two men lost their lives on Friday afternoon after they were electrocuted at a rice mill in Mahaicony.

Alliance for Change (AFC) General Secretary David Patterson has signaled his readiness to contest to be leader of the party if nominated.

The regional private sector group which sparked a furore here when it appeared to suggest that Guyana’s local content law violated the Treaty of Chaguaramas visited the country earlier this month in what has been seen as a fence-mending trip and it is seeking to mobilise members.

Five years after the final submissions were made in a court action against the Government of Guyana by the Indigenous peoples of the Upper Mazaruni, who are seeking legal recognition of their rights to traditional and ancestral lands, community leaders are still awaiting a ruling.

President Irfaan Ali has said he and Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley are convinced that once they can show the results of their food security partnership, it can be replicated all across the region to create a win-win scenario.