Statement by Ministry of Foreign Affairs The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana has confirmed reports that two Guyanese registered fishing vessels – the Lady Nayera and the Sea Wolf – operating off the coast of Waini Point within Guyana’s Exclusive Economic Zone, were intercepted by Venezuelan naval vessel Commandante Hugo…
Most of the squatters who occupied lands at South Success on the East Coast of Demerara have left, leaving behind uninhabited shacks. However, there are still persons who have found alternatives ways to stay even though portions of the lands are inundated. Those persons who continue to occupy the lands after it was flooded, sought…
–questioned by SOCU, accused of attempting to defraud ‘Harbour Bridge’ of over $100M By Richard Bhainie GENERAL Secretary of the Alliance for Change (AFC) and the former Minister of Public Infrastructure, David Patterson, along with the former General Manager of the Demerara Harbour Bridge Corporation, Rawlston Adams, on Friday appeared before the Special Organised Crime…
Region Four has recorded 56 of the 76 new COVID-19 cases reported by the Ministry of Health on Friday. The new cases were recorded from 438 new tests conducted over the last 24 hours, taking Guyana’s overall number of confirmed cases to 7, 143. The other cases were recorded in Region One with four new…
The Ministry of Health has sent several samples taken from Guyanese to the Caribbean Public Health Agency for testing for the new Coronavirus variants. Guyana has not recorded any case of any of the new variants, but Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica and neighbouring Brazil have all reported the presence of the faster spreading variant in…
–as police launch investigation into gift-giving scandal — Auditor General says law provides for jailing of accounting officers for misuse of public funds THE Guyana Police Force has been called in to investigate the circumstances surrounding Government agencies gifting expensive items to the former Ministers of Public Infrastructure, David Patterson and Annette Ferguson. This was…
President Irfaan Ali on Thursday reassured that by the end of April 2021, there will be an alternative road link between Diamond and Eccles on the East Bank of Demerara. With construction well advance for linking the East Bank Demerara communities, it is seen as part of the government’s strategy to ease congestion along the…
Guyana continues to rank high among the countries in the Americas most affected by cervical cancer. While figures for the last two reporting years are not immediately available, in 2018 there was an age-standardized incidence rate of 32.7 per 100,000 women. Between 2013 and 2017, cervical cancer was listed as the second most frequently-diagnosed cancer…
— Minister Edghill says gifts cost $2.4M, calls on Integrity Commission to investigate matter AFTER being implicated in receiving a number of pricey, shiny birthday gifts from agencies that fell under his watch as Minister of Public Infrastructure, former minister with that portfolio David Patterson has admitted to receiving the items. Media reports have suggested…
Already facing possible debarment, local civil engineering company, Courtney Benn Contracting Services and its insurance provider, Caricom General Insurance Company, will soon have to defend themselves against a joint $414.3 million lawsuit instituted by the State for breach of contract with regards to the re-construction of the St. Roses High School. According to court documents,…
