Guyana News

Photographer Keron Bruce has filed a $200 million suit against social media personality Mikhail Rodrigues, popularly known as “Guyanese Critic,” for what he said were defamatory statements made about him.

Finding for the third time within the last week, the 60-year base sentence applied by Justice Navindra Singh as being excessive and without jurisprudential basis, the Guyana Court of Appeal has again reduced a sentence imposed by the judge.

Two persons were yesterday charged after allegedly stabbing and wounding a man during a scuffle at the Kitty Seawall.

A twenty-six-year-old man has been charged with attempting to murder a man whom he gave his grandmother’s sliding glass door to keep. 

Guyana has recorded three more COVID-19 deaths along with over 160 new cases of the virus.

With the government seeking to make Guyana an arbitration hub, a United Kingdom law firm – Signature Litigation – has expressed interest in collaborating with the administration on the revamping of the arbitration laws of Guyana.

Just over $16.7 million is expected to be expended on the renovation of Region Two’s State House annex.

Two suspects are now in police custody following a robbery with aggravation committed on a 33-year-old businessman of Foulis, E.C.D,

Yesterday, ranks of Regional Division #6, led by an Assistant Superintendent of Police, conducted an eradication exercise at Fort Nassau Savannah, Upper Berbice River where a farm consisting of about ten thousand cannabis sativa plants ranging from three to five feet in height with a street value of $4M was destroyed.

Minister of Health, Dr. Frank Anthony has issued a call for more persons to get vaccinated even as almost 1,900 COVID-19 vaccines were administered on Monday.

The Alliance for Change (AFC) today rejected the claim that Dr. 

The police today said that they are probing the suspected murder of a Yarrowkabra woman.

The Chinese Embassy in Georgetown today condemned US media outfit VICE News over claims contained in questions it posed in an interview with Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on February 1st.

In the aftermath of stunning bribery allegations put to him on February 1st by US-based media outlet, VICE News, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday said that the man who it was claimed had made them has denied this.

Negotiations are now underway with a Chinese consortium for the construction of the new Demerara River bridge after the financing terms for the number one bidder were found to be too onerous.

The Committee of Supply of Parliament yesterday heard that the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) has exhausted the $30 billion bond financing which was secured for the diversification and mechanization of the industry back in 2018.

The Ministry of Health yesterday said that three men from Region Three are the latest recorded COVID-19 fatalities.

Akeem Rajkumar called ‘Barney’ is wanted by the police for questioning in relation to the murder of clothes vendor, 24-year-old Carlos DeShawn Waithe on Monday morning.

The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) is emphatically rejecting the notion that its selection criteria for its postgraduate programmes are influenced by factors of ethnicity.

Interviewer: This year Guyana dropped two points on the Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index which puts it among the most corrupt in the region.