Guyana News

Ten new cases of the novel coronavirus have been reported by the Ministry of Health after its latest round of testing.

The report, “Lawyer accused of abusing cop charged with racial hostility,”  published in the Thursday, April 21, 2022 edition of Stabroek News, should have indicated that proceedings against attorney Nirvan Singh were based on a private criminal charge.

Minister of Health Dr Frank Anthony on Wednesday said that enough COVID-19 vaccines are available for all needed doses.

Dutch company SBM Offshore has shared a YouTube video of the lifting and installation of the first topsides on the Prosperity FPSO – what will be Guyana’s third oil platform – at the Keppel Offshore & Marine yard in Singapore.

-60-day review process underway An environmental study was yesterday submitted by ExxonMobil’s subsidiary to the EPA for a US$1.3b gas to shore project which the government hopes will lead to vastly lower energy costs that would enable a spurt in manufacturing but doubts have persisted over execution capacity and whether a real feasibility study has been done.

President Irfaan Ali  is to today formally write to Leader of the Opposition Aubrey Norton inviting him to a meeting to be held within the next two weeks, to discuss constitutional appointments which require consultations between the two.

Minister of Home Affairs, Robeson Benn has called on female police ranks to be “hands on” and “more empathetic” when dealing with domestic and gender-based violence reports.

President Irfaan Ali last evening announced that some 300 prefab homes will be built on lands already set aside  to accommodate visitors for the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) and revenue from the venture will go towards home payments for the neediest.

Prime Minister Mark Phillips yesterday stated that the loss of US correspondent banking, the increase of the unbanked and disruption of the flow of remittances will pose serious threats to the economic and social stability of the Caribbean.

President Irfaan Ali yesterday expressed shock at the passing of former PNCR Member of Parliament and owner of Guysons Engi-neering Limited, Kadim ‘Kads’ Khan, who was pronounced dead yesterday morning.

After spending almost six years behind bars and facing two trials, Alexis Turpin was yesterday discharged of the 2016 murder of her partner, Sherwin Johnson, after a judge upheld a no-case submission made on her behalf.

A 51-year-old woman lost her life in a fire that razed her Lot 14 Bachelor’s Adventure, East Coast Demerara (ECD) home yesterday.

Attorney Nirvan Singh, who is accused of verbally abusing a police constable with racist remarks while she was performing guard duties at his father’s residence, was charged on Wednesday.

A 21-year-old man was on Tuesday remanded to prison on the charge that he murdered his 19-year-old girlfriend, who was fatally stabbed.

Advancing that it augurs well for accountability in public spending, Attorney General (AG) Anil Nandlall SC has defended passage of the motion tabled by the government side of the National Assembly, which now requires five, as opposed to three persons to form a quorum for the holding of a Public Accounts Committee (PAC) meeting.

President Irfaan Ali yesterday appointed the Natural Resource Fund (NRF) board and named Major General (Rtd) Joe Singh as the Chairman.

Late co-founder of the Red Thread collective, Andaiye, will be remembered at the 2022 NGC Bocas Lit Fest, the annual festival of words and ideas based in Trinidad and Tobago.

Some $69.3 million will be spent by the Ministry of Public Works for the upgrade of the Leonora Market Old Road, Region Three, the Department of Public Information (DPI) reported.

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) and the Ministry of Labour’s Board of Industrial Training (BIT) are to collaborate on training of youths.

A 52-year-old businessman is now counting his losses after a fire of unknown origin gutted a building which housed his workers and equipment at Kwakwani, Region Ten yesterday.