Guyana News

Two men were yesterday remanded to prison after they were charged with the murder of ex-convict, Akash Pechia, who was found with severe chop injuries about his body in an empty lot at Number 55 Village, Corentyne last week Tuesday.

APNU city councillor Heston Bostwick on Monday denied a claim that he granted permission for the construction of a vending place. 

By Aviso Paul With Region Nine (Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo) being one of the most severely flood-affected areas in the country, residents there are now being relocated to safety.

A pensioner drowned in the East La Penitence canal on Monday.

Donnel Trapp now faces a retrial after a jury was unable to arrive at a verdict on the indictment against him for the 2016 murder of Soesdyke Hill Foot farmer/agriculturalist Anthony Breedy.

The Central Islamic Organization of Guyana (CIOG) in collaboration with the Two Brothers Primary and Geneva Nursery School at Canal # 1, West Bank Demerara on Sunday held a medical outreach for the general public.

Nurses from the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) were last Friday presented with awards for outstanding performance, after graduating with the Bachelor’s Degree in Emergency Nursing.

The Ministry of Public Works is to sign the contract for the New Demerara River Bridge tomorrow at Providence.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) this afternoon announced the death of a six-month-old infant who succumbed with COVID-19.

Commissioner of Police (ag.)  Clifton Hicken today  expressed his dissatisfaction in relation to the physical altercation between a police rank and a member of the public, which was captured in a video that is circulating on social media, in which the police rank is seen involved in a scuffle and trading punches with a civilian whom he was trying to arrest.

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo at a meeting with sugar workers of the Uitvlugt Estate yesterday afternoon announced a menu of relief measures, including proposed small business grants of up to $250,000.

The Government of Trinidad and Tobago on Sunday said that it is not currently pursuing challenging Guyana’s local content laws but rather, is trying to understand how both nations can collectively benefit from the resources in the sector.

Following concerns over the repeated use of one consultant for the environmental surveys for ExxonMobil’s operations here, a different company was selected for the oil major’s fifth planned offshore project but the controversy is likely to rumble on.

Environmentalist Simone Mangal-Joly has written to the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) calling on it to release a study which purports to say that Guyana’s oil and gas industry is not causing the low fish catch being experienced by fishermen here.

Members of a Parfait Harmonie family were beaten and robbed during a home invasion on Sunday night by three gunmen.

Three remodelled multi-million-dollar police stations were commissioned yesterday at New Amsterdam, Albion and Whim in Berbice “This is an outstanding and a magnificent day for the Guyana Police Force in Berbice itself and the Corentyne Coast in respect of these new facilities,”  Benn said, according to a release from the police force.

Declaring that it is “apolitical,” “professional” and operates within the confines of the law, the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) in a statement has sought to rebuff what it says are allegations published “in the media and otherwise that have no basis in law.”

The Ministry of Public Works yesterday issued a Certificate of Inspection approving the electrical works which have been done at Tucville Primary and Secondary Schools over the last few weeks.

The Forbes Burnham Foundation is incensed that it was denied exhibition space at the National Library at the last minute and feels that there was a directive behind this move.

A total of 21 new COVID-19 cases were reported by the Ministry of Health yesterday.