A HEATED exchange in the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Monday, resulted in the Committee’s Chairman Jermaine Figueira instructing parliament staff to cut the microphone of Public Works Minister, Bishop Juan Edghill. The muzzling occurred at the time Minister Edghill enquired about the sale of three government-owned vehicles in 2017 in the care of the…
24-year-old Labour Ministry driver, Nionel Berkley lost his life last evening as he rode his motorcycle and crashed into a woman while she was walking on the pedestrian crossing on the East Bank public road at Agricola. The accident occurred around 7 pm on Monday. A police statement said Berkley was proceeding north along the…
— high on agenda of CARICOM Heads of Government meeting — CARICOM must reinforce its commitment to peace in Russia/Ukraine crisis, says President Ali PRESIDENT Dr Mohamed Irfaan Ali has highlighted several key areas for discussion at the 33rd Inter-Sessional Meeting of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), which is billed for today…
The Ministry of Legal Affairs says it has exhausted all efforts to recover sums owed by public officers for government flats they occupied for several years, going as far back as 2010. As a consequence, and with many of the defaulters now deceased or migrated, the Ministry of Finance has been approached to facilitate a…
An 18-year-old labourer was on Monday remanded to prison for the attempted murder committed of a 15-year-old schoolboy. Claudius James appeared before City Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus and was not required to plea to the charge which alleged that on February 22, 2022, at Stabroek Market, Georgetown, he unlawfully wounded the teenager with intent to commit…
Lawrence Carmichael, the police corporal who was driving the force’s vehicle in pursuit of a young driver that led to the deadly four-vehicle accident at Mahaica, East Coast Demerara on February 02, 2022, will be charged. The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) said in a statement that the police file was returned…
Caribbean Airlines will operate direct non-stop service between Houston Texas and Georgetown, Guyana, with onward connectivity to Port of Spain, Trinidad commencing March 22, 2022. The service will operate thrice weekly to/from Terminal D, of the George Bush Intercontinental Airport each Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday up until June 30, 2022. The launch of this new…
Guyana recorded 18 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, taking the country’s total number of confirmed cases to 62, 921. Although four deaths were recorded on Saturday, none were reported on Sunday and Monday. The new cases were recorded in the following regions; Region Two (one case), Region four (13 cases) and Region five (one case)…
President of ExxonMobil Guyana Alistair Routledge on Monday took time to respond to what he said was “misinformation” being shared as part of the national discussion on oil spill insurance. The Exxon Head assured that in addition to its insurance, which meets international standards, it also has the financial capacity to respond should there be…
The Russian-made Sputnik V vaccine was once the backbone of Guyana’s COVID-19 vaccination campaign but now, the local health authorities are administering fewer amounts of this vaccine with the demand for other vaccines increasing. With its approval from the World Health Organization (WHO) still pending, Minister of Health Dr. Frank Anthony says that the local…
