Guyana News

Some 438 new COVID-19 cases were yesterday recorded and the current active total stands at over 6,000.

An APNU+AFC-sponsored motion was yesterday passed during the Mayor and City Council’s (M&CC) statutory meeting recommending the dismissal of City Engineer Colvern Venture. 

The Guyana Government has issued a Request for Information (RFI) on firms with the capacity to provide engineering, procurement and construction services for 33 megawatts peak (MWp) of solar power.

The Ministry of Education says that there was a high turnout of teachers yesterday despite a call by the GTU for a day of isolation in the face of rising COVID-19 numbers.

A motion on the proposed gas-to-shore project in the name of APNU+AFC MP David Patterson has now been placed on the parliamentary notice paper.

Approximately 25,000 doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine are expected to arrive in Guyana this week.

A 28-year-old man died after the ATV he was travelling on overturned at Nassano Backdam Main Access Road, North West District, Region One on Sunday night.

More progress will be made this year on a swine abattoir, according to a release yesterday from the Ministry of Agriculture.

Minister of Health, Dr Frank Anthony yesterday revealed that approximately 50 samples are expected to be sent for gene sequencing this week to determine if the COVID-19 Omicron variant is present here.

An Edinburgh, East Bank Berbice (EBB) teenager is now in the New Amsterdam Public Hospital in a serious condition after he was involved in an accident along the Gay Park Public Road on Sunday evening.

The Private Sector Commission (PSC) says it is partnering with the government to carry out a massive cleanup exercise of Georgetown on January 15-16, 2022.

Amid a surge of COVID-19 cases, Demerara Bank Limited (DBL) has with effect from today temporarily reduced opening hours at all of its branches.

Caribbean Airlines (CAL) today launched its REset Expectations campaign for 2022 and is to conduct a special sale on all destinations, carded for January 15.

As the battle for the position of Opposition Leader gathers momentum, a motion of no confidence by APNU MPs against Joseph Harmon could be in the works to clear a pathway for PNCR Head Aubrey Norton.

Shadow Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, Jermaine Figueira yesterday accused the government of encouraging the spread of the COVID-19 virus by ignoring flagrant breaches of health protocols at Saturday night’s Guyana Football Federation (GFF) and Kashif and Shanghai (K&S) Futsal final at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall  “It is time to stop this nonsensical and very dangerous approach which is costing lives.

Declaring that it won’t be silenced, civil society group Article 13 yesterday registered strong disappointment over the government “rushing” the Natural Resource  Fund (NRF) bill through Parliament and it also asserted that President Irfaan Ali has to be held accountable for the growing number of “constitutional violations of omissions and commission”.

The GTU yesterday urged teachers to observe an “Isolation Day” today from face-to-face teaching in the wake of rising COVID-19 cases despite a warning from the Minister of Labour that they would be docked a day’s pay.

The Guyana Online Academy of Learning (GOAL) is advising that persons who wish to apply for scholarships offered in 2022, should begin preparing their documents for their applications.

A contractor is currently facing the ire of the Minister of Public Works for failing to complete a project on time.

As with the Judicial Service Commission (JSC), and despite assurances, the Irfaan Ali-led Government is yet to reconstitute another important constitutional body—the Public Service Commission (PSC).