Guyana News

Three Indian companies are vying to construct the much anticipated Ogle to Eccles four-lane highway, which is being funded by a line of credit from the Indian Exim Bank.

Small-business owners were given the opportunity to promote their services on Saturday at a farmers’ market at the Everest cricket ground hosted by Dat Yoga Shop.

Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly and opposition member Lenox Shuman has joined  the call for government to remove the taxes from the 7% increase given to public servants saying it the country could afford it and the monies would especially help to ease the burden on them this holiday season.

In an effort to have a pool of local auditors to assist in auditing post-contract costs and the continuous auditing of oil & gas expenses, government has met with the Institute of Chartered Accountants to work out a mechanism to acquire the requisite skillsets needed.

Residents in Region Two particularly in villages such as Richmond, Charity, and Queenstown are currently battling floodwaters.

Approximately 2,740 severed Berbice sugar workers were yesterday given a one off cash grant to the total tune of $685 million based on a promise made by the current government while in opposition after the closure of the sugar estates by the APNU+AFC.

The Ministry of Health today said that as of December 11, 2021, three more women who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

Government yesterday began the payout of promised $250,000 one-off grants to close to 2,500 sugar workers who were laid off when the former APNU+AFC administration closed the Enmore and Wales estates.

President Irfaan Ali on Saturday activated a Cabinet-level Task Force to coordinate the response to the current rainy season and potential flood impacts across Guyana, the Civil Defence Commission (CDC) announced last night.

Years of domestic abuse ended in tragedy on Friday night when a 48-year-old woman was murdered in her Martyr’s Ville New Scheme, Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara (ECD) home by her husband, who then took his own life.

The long in the works local content bill and key amendments for the Natural Resources Fund (NRF) Act are due to be tabled this week when the National Assembly reconvenes, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo has said.

The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB)-funded Linden to Mabura Hill road construction and upgrading project has attracted billion-dollar bids from Chinese and Brazilian companies.

On the heels of Opposition Leader Joseph Harmon condemning the selection of Vishnu Persaud as its next Chief Election Officer as a political decision, opposition coalition partner the Alliance For Change (AFC) on Saturday said that any appointment would have been criticised by either side of the divide.

At the Hague Backdam, on the West Coast of Demerara yesterday, a distressed large-scale provision farmer, Chunilall Hansraj, was using a tractor pump in a desperate bid to get water out of his crop. 

A construction worker is now dead after he fell from a scaffold while working at a Montrose, East Coast Demerara property yesterday.

Guyanese writer Grace Nichols has been awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry for the year 2021.

President Irfaan Ali, yesterday commissioned the Sheet Anchor Water Treatment Plant, which will supply purified water to 4,182 households between Good Bananen Land, East Canje, and Number 35 Village, Corentyne, Berbice. 

Civil society group Article 13 has issued a call for the government and opposition to commence the process of restoring the guardrails and institutional framework designed to prevent corruption.

With equality being the theme of this year’s Human Rights Day, British High Commissioner to Guyana on Friday said that there is still much work to be done in Guyana on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) rights.

An almost 50% decrease in COVID-19 deaths were reported for the month of November 2021 as compared to October 2021.