Guyana News

President Irfaan Ali yesterday met with a team from the  New York-based Mount Sinai Health System at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre and discussed modernisation of the local system.

Members of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) Elections Accreditation Committee were up to last night working to complete the verification of nominees for the post of leader and executive members of the party.

No new COVID-19 death was reported yesterday but  55 new cases of the virus were recorded.

A tender was recently opened at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board for consulting services for oversight of the petroleum sector.

Regional sugar producers have made an urgent appeal for policy changes to protect their markets in CARICOM in order to boost production.

The Ministry of Agriculture today said that Region Three officials reported that on Saturday, the winch that is used to open and close one of the sluices in the Nismes, West Bank Demerara area was stolen.

From Monday, November 29th, the Licence Revenue Operations (LRO) office will be relocated to the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) parking lot at Lamaha Railway Embankment, Camp and Lamaha streets.

Commentator and politician Ralph Ramkarran SC has skewered draft electoral legislation from the PPP/C government as “woefully inadequate”.

Recognising that the poultry processing market is underserved and will see a heightened demand within the next few years, businessman Terrence Campbell is preparing to invest US$1M in a farm, hatchery and plant at Pearl, East Bank Demerara.

Contender for Leader of the PNCR Dr Richard Van West-Charles on Saturday launched his leadership campaign in Linden and stressed that the party needs to first focus on rebuilding itself to enable it to tackle national struggles and  this is why delegates should vote for him.

Candidate for the leadership of the PNCR, Aubrey Norton says that he was on Saturday blocked by MoneyGram from receiving US$500 and does not believe it was regulatory procedures being adhered to but an abuse of this country’s  anti-money laundering laws that speak to politically exposed persons. 

The Ministry of Health yesterday said that as November 13, 2021, two more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

The disclosure that the period for forensic scrutiny of US$9.5b in expenses racked up by ExxonMobil and its partners had expired without an auditing firm being appointed is scandalous and must be immediately remedied.

The spike in the price for fertilisers has resulted in Region Two rice farmers protesting and calling for immediate intervention by the Minister of Agriculture, Zulfikar Mustapha.

Partnering with local investor Ryan Pereira of Cataleya Energy, Trinidad and Tobago-headquartered CIC insurance brokers has entered the Guyana market and said it looks forward to helping develop the industry here as it taps into the oil and gas market.

Mings Optical on Saturday opened their upgraded location at Williamsburg, Corentyne.

Following Nomination Day on Friday, the PNCR’s five-member Elections Accreditation Committee will today meet to finalize the process for submission of the list of nominees for the posts of Leader of the Party and executives to serve for the next two years.

Fifty-six persons recently benefited from microbiology training as a result of a collaboration between the University of Guyana’s Berbice Campus (UGBC) and the Nand Persaud Group of Companies.

The Guyana Livestock Development Authority (GLDA) yesterday issued a public advisory over the highly contagious African Swine Fever (ASF) which was recently detected in the Dominican Republic.

A West Coast Berbice (WCB) man was last evening fatally beaten while his son sustained head and other injuries after they were attacked by five villagers from a nearby village who claimed that the older man had broken into their house and stolen jewellery.