Guyana News

A porkknocker who allegedly drowned at a creek at Obanna Backdam in Kuribrong, Potaro on April 15th, 2022 has been identified as Iftikhar Haniff Hussain.

Four new cases of COVID-19 were reported on the Ministry of Health’s daily dashboard yesterday.

Ranks of the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) on Sunday found a firearm with several rounds at the Plaza Complex on Aubrey Barker Road, South Ruimveldt, Georgetown.

Scores of persons in Region Two yesterday gathered at the Perseverance  beach to celebrate Easter after staying home for two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

New York Lieutenant Governor Brian Benjamin, the son of a Guyanese immigrant, has been arrested and charged with bribery and fraud for allegedly directing state funds to a group controlled by a real estate developer who was a campaign donor, U.S.

Prime Minister Mark Phillips yesterday defended the government’s decision to seek a three-year supply of 50 megawatts of power utilising Heavy Fuel Oil (HFO).

While details are still to be provided on the project, the Berbice Chamber of Commerce and Development Association (BCC&DA) is buoyed by the announcement of a major airport for the county as it will boost travel from North America and dovetail with other planned infrastructural projects.

For perhaps the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic took hold here two years ago, there are no patients in the ICU at the Infectious Diseases Hospital at Liliendaal.

President Irfaan Ali presented more than two dozen vehicles to over 20 communities in the Rupununi during his visit over the weekend to Region Nine (Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo).

Government on Wednesday tabled a bill that once enacted will see the regulation of nurses, midwives, nursing assistants and specialists nurses, among other things.

Exxon Mobil Corp. showed its highest profit since 2008 as Russia’s war in Ukraine shook up global commodity markets, according to Bloomberg.

Acknowledging the absence of former Permanent Secretaries (PS) and Regional Executive Officers (REO) from sittings of the Public Accounts Committee, government member Gail Teixeira on Monday said that the committee must consider what sort of action it must take to put a stop to the absenteeism.

Two Sophia cousins are nursing gunshot wounds at the Georgetown Public Hospital following an  incident in North Sophia in the wee hours of Saturday.

The Ministry of Tourism is seeking expressions of interest for bed and breakfast packages for the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) matches scheduled for September 16 to October 2 this year.

Premnauth Persaud, a 54-year-old businessman also known as ‘Greens Man’ died after he was struck down on Saturday night by a motorcyclist at First Avenue, Bartica.

The Chinese Embassy in Georgetown has voiced concern over a Project Syndicate column in Stabroek News authored by former Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo in which he argues that American ambiguity over the defence of Taiwan must come to an end.

Bartica businessman Premnauth Persaud, 54, died yesterday after he was struck by a motorcycle.

Yesterday, Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) officers conducted an operation at a residence in Bel Air Avenue, Lamaha Gardens  and found two parcels of cocaine and an amount of ganja.

Saying that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) “systematically and knowingly” violated the law,  environmentalist Simone Mangal-Joly is contending that the environmental permit issued for ExxonMobil’s Yellowtail Development Project is “illegal and Invalid” as a result.

The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) has lodged a complaint with the Local Content Secretariat over the practice here by foreign companies of bundling contracts for services in the oil and gas sector to the disadvantage of local companies.