December 5, 2020

The Ministry of Health on Saturday recorded 36 new COVID-19 cases and 38 new recoveries. As a result, there are now 5,637 persons who have tested positive for the disease since March 11, 2020 and 4,733 who have recovered; the number of…

The body of a female toddler was found floating in a canal at Crane Squatting Area, West Coast Demerara (WCD) on Saturday morning. The police, in a short statement, said the baby’s name and age is unknown. The body, which measures…

Despite being a caretaker government and acknowledging that they were in caretaker mode, the A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) coalition abused the Contingency Fund, withdrawing large sums long after losing the…

A Baramita woman, 25-year-old Joanna John, is currently a patient at the Baramita Health Centre after she was stabbed several times with a broken bottle by another female she was imbibing with. Police said John and another 25-year-old…

A ten-member team from one of the world’s largest Iron Ore companies on Friday visited Guyana to look at investment opportunities. The team from Australia, Fortescue (FMG) led by the Chief Executive Officer, Julie Shuttleworth, touched…

Guyana is the world’s largest producer of Atlantic seabob, a commercially important shrimp that is caught from the Atlantic coast of the US all the way down to Brazil. In Guyana, seabob is fished by both industrial trawlers and by artisanal…

A 22-year-old man of Eccles, East Bank Demerara (EBD) died at the Georgetown Public Hospital on Saturday morning, hours after his car crashed into a utility pole at La Bonne Intention (LBI) Railway Embankment Road, East Coast Demerara…

A whopping 42 companies have submitted bids to construct the new bridge across the Demerara River. The bids were opened today at the Ministry of Public Works, Wights Lane, Kingston. At the official ceremony, Minister of Public Works,…

Weeks after the Tiger Creek bridge collapsed in Potaro-Siparuni (Region Eight), Regional Engineer Wendell St. Pierre said the contractor has been hampered by torrential rains. The Department on Public Information (DPI) reported that the…

Region Four residents will start receiving the Government’s $25,000 per household COVID-19 relief cash grant in the new week, according to Minister of Local Government and Regional Development, Nigel Dharamlall. “We will begin…