Guyana News

The body of a 69-year-old lorry driver was on Thursday discovered floating in the Mazaruni River in Region Seven and an autopsy yesterday revealed that he had been strangled.

In the rollout of its automated payment system, the Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB) is currently targeting vehicles with charge accounts before moving on to individuals, General Manager Wayne Watson yesterday stated.

The five persons who were busted by the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) in Prashad Nagar last Tuesday, were released on $500,000 bail each yesterday.

The Ministry of Public Works yesterday signed contracts totalling $5.57 billion to construct and upgrade roads and bridges in the hinterland and communities on the coast.

Minister of Home Affairs, Robeson Benn is looking for other possible locations for the operations of more water taxis along the Demerara River.

Following the sudden death of its owner, Lakeram ‘Mike’ Singh,  Mike’s Pharmacy on the East Coast of Demerara  was yesterday closed to business until further notice.

The Institute of Private Enterprise Development (IPED) has gotten a good rating from regional credit rating body CariCRIS, Caribbean Information and Credit Rating Services Limited (CariCRIS) in a statement on Thursday said it has assigned initial corporate credit ratings of CariBBB (Local Currency Rating) and CariBBB- (Foreign Currency Rating) on its regional scale, gyA+ (Local Currency Rating) and gyA (Foreign Currency Rating) on the Guyana national scale to IPED.

Pegged at a cost of nearly $38m,  the spanking new building which will now house the Kwakwani Magistrate’s Court and its living quarters, was commissioned and handed over to the Upper Demerara community yesterday.

A fire which was apparently started by a lighted kerosene stove resulted in the death of a pensioner at Bachelor’s Adventure, East Coast Demerara (ECD) on Thursday morning and destroyed a wooden house.

Retired staff of the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GTT) are set to benefit from a 75 percent reduction in their internet costs, according to Jasmin Harris, Senior Manager of Public Relations and Corporate Communication at GTT.

GTT says it has collaborated with the Guyana Fire Service (GFS) to modernize its calling and reporting infrastructure through the donation of four phones equipped with caller ID and recorders and this will reduce prank calls.

Out of 1,811 tests that were performed yesterday, the Ministry of Health has recorded five new COVID-19 cases.

A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) has nominated former PNCR Chair and Public Health Minister, Volda Lawrence for the second of two vacancies that have arisen in its parliamentary lineup.

Despite searching questions and reservations, the  Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced that it has approved the Yellowtail Development Project,  ExxonMobil’s fourth offshore oil well.

Citing the burgeoning oil and gas industry, US Ambassador to Guyana, Sarah-Ann Lynch says that economic diversification is “absolutely critical” to achieving prosperity for all here and staving off the Dutch Disease.

PNCR Leader Aubrey Norton has been chosen to fill one of the two vacant seats on the opposition’s side of the National Assembly but the sloth of the process in them officially being sworn in is concerning and an embarrassment, AFC Leader Khemraj Ramjattan says.

The owner of Mike’s Pharmacy, Lakeram `Mike’ Singh passed away in Florida yesterday while playing cricket.

Among a plethora of breaches, Noble House Seafoods did not treat the initial call informing it of the vessel taking in water as an emergency.

The Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) on Wednesday intercepted a minibus at Tuschen Public Road, East Bank Essequibo and found a quantity of cocaine and a firearm. 

After trying numerous weight loss programmes for years without any results, a 32-year-old man was able to lose 55 pounds within six weeks after the country’s first-ever laparoscopic bariatric surgery.