Guyana News

The family of Elsa Simpson, a 76-year-old No. 1 Village, Corentyne woman who succumbed at the Infectious Disease Hospital at Liliendaal last Friday, is seeking answers from health authorities about her death and the treatment she received leading up to it.

A group of citizens has called on the Environmental Assessment Board (EAB) to declare the impact survey for ExxonMobil’s proposed Yellowtail oil well null and void and for the process to be restarted.

Calvin Kemo Chase, a miner who was found guilty of raping a girl when she was 13 years old, has been sentenced to 12 years behind bars.

Three more COVID-19 deaths were reported yesterday. This was revealed by the Ministry of Health in a press release which stated that the country’s total COVID-19 fatalities increased to 1,023.

The man who was wanted for the murder of Feroze Khan, of Rosignol Village, West Bank Berbice (WBB), was yesterday nabbed in the Mibicuri, Black Bush Polder backlands by lawmen.

The Suddie Funeral Home’s Management Committee has agreed to compensate the family of Nathan Fiedtkou, whose corpse was accidentally cremated due to a mix-up.

Full staffing of the Guyana Revenue Authority’s Petroleum Revenue Department (PRD) is being affected by uncompetitive remuneration packages according to the Auditor General’s report for 2020.

A youth has been sentenced to serve four years in jail after he was found guilty of feloniously wounding his uncle, whose right thumb was severed in the attack.

After the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) was discovered in Guyana back in March 2020, the then APNU+AFC government implemented an assistance programme for vulnerable persons but a recent audit of the scheme shows that 9,000 eligible applicants were denied the grants.

Defects have developed on the road near the junction of La Bonne Intention (LBI) Estate Road and the East Coast Highway, which have been inconveniencing motorists.

Mayor of Georgetown, Ubraj Narine, has  written to City Engineer, Colvern Venture, instructing him to remove the Bar-B-Que structure erected outside the St Pius X Church at Middle Road, La Penitence.

The Auditor-General, in a special report on the former APNU+AFC government’s COVID-19 voucher programme, found that 9,000 eligible applicants were denied the grant.

Unusual amounts of rainfall over the past 36 hours have left some 5,900 households impacted and several communities across Guyana flooded, Prime Minister Mark Phillips reported subsequent to a meeting with the Cabinet Ministerial Task Force on flooding.

“If our fight for basic human rights is seen as politics how should development happen?”

The doctors at the Leonora Hospital on the West Coast of Demerara (WCD), are frustrated, exhausted, and unhappy about their burdensome work schedule and are calling for the Minister of Health’s intervention.

Two families in Essequibo had more pain added to their grief following a mix-up by a funeral home that resulted in one family cremating the relative of the other last Saturday.

A North West District miner was killed on Saturday night after being involved in a scuffle over money owed to an employee.

The Health Ministry yesterday reported three more COVID-19 deaths with 62 new cases.

Ranks of the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU), acting on intelligence, recently made a major drug bust valuing $25Million on the Corentyne.

A 19-year-old Region Nine teen has been arrested by police on allegations of rape committed on an intoxicated 16-year-old.