Guyana on Thursday recorded three more COVID-19 deaths taking the total number of fatalities recorded since the pandemic was discovered here in March 2020 to 441. A total of 43 deaths have since been recorded this month alone. The latest fatalities are a 70-year-old man from Region 10 (Upper Demerara-Berbice); an 83-year-old man from Region…

Two days before the Chief Justice is set to hand down her ruling in a case against the Police Service Commission filed by two Officers who didn’t get promoted, President Irfaan Ali has suspended all of the members of the Police Service Commission including the Chairman of the Commission, retired Assistant Police Commissioner Paul Slowe.…

AFTER some six hours of heated debate in the National Assembly, which started at 23:30hrs on Monday and ended in the wee hours of Tuesday morning, Opposition Member of Parliament (MP), David Patterson, was removed as Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC). The motion was moved by Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Governance, Gail…

Guyana on Wednesday recorded another COVID-19 fatality taking the total number of deaths recorded since the pandemic began in March 2020 to 438; a total of 40 deaths have thus been recorded this month alone. The latest fatality is a 54-year-old woman from Region 1 (Barima-Waini) who died while receiving care at a medical facility…

Agents from the Customs Anti Narcotics Unit and the Police are currently investigating the discovery of a burnt out Cessna 206 aircraft along the Bissaruni trail, 12 miles east of Kwakwani in the Upper Berbice area. In a statement, the Police said at around 8:15pm on Monday, a report was received about an aircraft that…

— for flood relief, vaccines, other emergency interventions THE National Assembly last night approved a $21.3 billion Supplementary Budget for the remainder of 2021. The funds will be spent on addressing a number of key issues, including the ongoing floods; the purchase of more COVID-19 vaccines; the execution of much-needed repairs to the Demerara Harbour…

The Canadian High Commission on Tuesday inked a contribution agreement for a new project with HIAS Guyana entitled “Increasing protection and awareness for vulnerable Venezuelan women and adolescent girls in Guyana who are survivors or at-risk of gender-based violence (GBV).” The project, to be executed by HIAS Guyana, will be aimed at addressing the needs…

Three persons died on the spot and three others including a young baby are in a serious condition following an early morning smash-up at Fort Wellington in Berbice. The three dead persons were identified as 23-year-old taxi driver Carlos Edwards, 61-year-old retired Policeman Hookumchand Parmanand and 36-year-old Shabana Latiff. The dead taxi driver’s baby and…

-Kwakwani most severely hit as floodwaters surpass 15 ft PRIME Minister Brigadier (ret’d) Mark Phillips and a team of government officials returned to several of the flooded communities in Region 10 (Upper Demerara-Upper Berbice) on Saturday last, with more flood-relief hampers and supplies. Phillips, joined by Public Service Minister Sonia Parag and Public Works Minister…

Please see statement by the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security and the Childcare and Protection Agency: “The Ministry of Human Services and Social Security (MHSSS) and its Childcare & Protection Agency (CPA) are saddened at the recent death of Sarah Narine, a teenager by suicide. “It is indeed an unfortunate occurrence, and it…