The brother of well-known entrepreneur, Stanley Ming, died on Friday, one day after being involved in an accident with an ambulance that was transporting a COVID-19 patient to the Infectious Diseases Hospital at Liliendaal, East Coast Demerara. Samuel Collin Ming, age 67, of Delhi Street, Prashad Nagar, died in the Georgetown Public Hospital’s Intensive Care…
With the number of new cases of coronavirus climbing steadily, the National COVID-19 Task Force has announced that all non-religious Easter activities are prohibited during the long Easter weekend. In a statement, the COVID-19 Task Force named wet-fetes, parties, limes and shows as among the activities that will not be allowed. Easter activities in public…
— efforts afoot to establish e-commerce marketplace, suppliers’ registry WITHIN the last seven months, the Government of Guyana, via the Small Businesses Bureau (SBB), has disbursed a quantity of grants to assist small businesses throughout the country. More specifically, since the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) assumed office in August 2020, an estimated $99 million…
Relatives are searching for the body of 15-year-old Adyemi Azeez, a student of the Abram Zuil Secondary School on the Essequibo Coast, who allegedly drowned on Thursday during an outing with friends at the Onderneeming beach. According to a police report, the teenager and some of his friends were at the house of another 15-year-old…
Less than 24 hours after the Police issued a wanted bulletin for 24-year-old Mark Anthony Henry for questioning in relation to the murder of West Coast Berbice resident, Sooroojdeo Deochand, the man turned himself in to investigators.. The 68-year-old Sooroojdeo Deochand was discovered in his home with multiple chop wounds about his body on Monday.…
— despite challenges posed by COVID-19, says World Bank GUYANA’S economy will remain resilient against the effects of the dreaded novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, maintaining its positive growth trajectory as the burgeoning petroleum sector ‘picks up steam’, the World Bank has said. Based on the latest estimates, the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the Latin…
The Ministry of Health on Wednesday recorded 57 new COVID-19 cases from a total of 944 tests, taking the overall number of confirmed cases to 10, 249. Region Four recorded 18 new cases while 15 were recorded in Region Seven. The other cases were recorded in Region Ten with five cases, Regions Seven and Nine…
Two months after the gas compressor on the Liza Destiny oil production vessel got damaged resulting in its removal and an increase in flaring, the Exxon company has announced that it is in the final stages of installing the repaired compressor system. In a statement today, the company announced that its teams of experts are…
–awaiting additional resources to commence drilling GUYANA’S waters is now home to six drill ships, with the recent arrival of Noble Corporation’s Sam Croft, which will be servicing the operations of global oil giant, ExxonMobil, and its affiliates. The Guyana Chronicle was reliably informed that the vessel arrived recently in Guyana’s waters and is currently…
Paul Watson, a former policeman of Zeelugt, East Bank Essequibo, was arrested on Tuesday for obtaining money by falsely pretending that he was in a position to assist an individual in obtaining a firearm licence, the Guyana Police Force noted in a statement. According to the police, Watson, who is attached to a private security…
