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The Ministry of Health yesterday said that as of January 25th, 2022, six more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

A 1.6-megawatt Caterpillar generator caught on fire yesterday morning at the Guyana Power and Light Inc.

Amid questions over cost, feasibility and the projected demand for power, the PPP/C government on Tuesday morning brushed aside an APNU+AFC motion for a pause in the planned gas to energy project with Minister of Natural Resources Vickram Bharrat arguing that the scheme will end blackouts and cut the electricity cost by half.

In an effort to restore and preserve law and order at all levels of society, the Government has allocated $47.9 billion towards public safety and security in the 2022 budget.

Ryan Alberts who in a drunken rage back in 2016 stabbed and killed one of his friends and injured another who intervened as a peacemaker, was yesterday sentenced to four years in prison by Justice Jo-Ann Barlow.

Government has budgeted some $887 million for infrastructure needed to support the largescale cultivation of corn and soya bean by private investors in order to safeguard the country’s livestock feed supply.

An East Bank Berbice boat captain is now at the New Amsterdam Public Hospital after he was shot on Tuesday evening during a robbery at his home in Glasgow New Housing Scheme.

The government has earmarked a total of $74.4 billion for the education sector in the 2022 national budget and Minister with responsibility for Finance Dr Ashni Singh yesterday detailed plans for improving school buildings, expanding the national feeding programme, better integration of ICT, and increased training for both teachers and young people. 

Some $21.1B has been allocated for the construction of the new, fixed four-lane high span Demerara River Bridge in this year’s budget, Minister of Finance Dr Ashini Singh said during his presentation yesterday.

Two bandits armed with a gun and cutlass pounced on an Edinburgh Village, East Bank Berbice Imam on Sunday evening robbing him of his late wife’s jewellery and cash.

A state-of-the art paediatric and maternal hospital is listed among the capital projects to be funded under the Ministry of Health’s budget this year, Minister of Finance Dr Ashni Singh announced yesterday.

The Speaker of the National Assembly, on Monday, acknowledged a motion of no-confidence brought against him by members of the Opposition explaining that it would go through the “regular procedure.”

KYIV/BERLIN,  (Reuters) – So grateful were Ukrainians for British military aid arriving last week that “God Save the Queen” was trending on Twitter, while one winery in western Ukraine offered free drinks to British nationals.

This year, $743.7m will be spent to develop the fisheries sector which has been plagued by low catches and other challenges, Minister of Finance Dr Ashni Singh said yesterday during the presentation of the 2022 budget.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Liberal U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer plans to retire, lawmakers said on Wednesday, giving President Joe Biden the opportunity to fulfill a campaign promise to nominate the first Black woman to the nation’s top judicial body.

Tavita Natasha Lall continued yesterday to battle for her life at the Georgetown Public Hospital after she was allegedly set alight by her common-law husband on January, 14, at their house in Number 64 Village, Corentyne, and her mother is in desperate need of assistance as she cannot afford to travel every day to the city to look after her daughter Lall, 42, a cleaner at the Tagore Memorial Secondary School, sustained burn injuries from her nose all the way to her legs.

(Reuters) – Gun owners in San Jose, California, would be required to carry insurance coverage for their weapons and pay an annual “harm reduction” fee under a newly approved city ordinance believed to be the first of its kind in the United States.

(Trinidad Guardian) The search for missing local model, actress and brand promotions representative Vanna Girod, fondly called Vanna Vee, ended tragically on Wednesday after her body was found near a beach in Arnos Vale in Tobago.

UNITED NATIONS,  (Reuters) – Afghanistan is “hanging by a thread,” United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the Security Council on Wednesday, calling for countries to authorize all transactions needed to carry out humanitarian activities in the Taliban-ruled state.

(Trinidad Guardian) All 65 people who were held on a party boat in Carenage earlier this month have now been charged with breaching the Public Health Regulations.