Daily Archives: January 20, 2021
Courtney Benn, insurance company facing $414M lawsuit
Already facing possible debarment, local civil engineering company, Courtney Benn Contracting Services and its insurance provider, Caricom General Insurance Company,...
Reg. 4 accounts for 41 of 65 new COVID-19 cases
A total of 65 new COVID-19 cases were recorded on Wednesday from 410 tests, taking Guyana’s overall number of confirmed...
Human Organ Transplant Bill for Parliament in May
With the aim to advance the country’s health care system in keeping with modern medicine, the Human Organ Transplant Bill...
‘Stop using physical violence to punish your children’ – Dr Persaud urges parents
Minister of Human Services and Social Security, Dr Vindhya Persaud, is pleading with parents to use alternative methods of punishing...
Edghill calls for Patterson’s resignation; says taxpayers’ dollars also purchased king beds, other furnishings
With documents from several agencies under David Patterson’s Ministry of Public Infrastructure further implicating him in a gift-buying scandal, his...
Head of Asphalt Plant removed; Edghill says more restructuring looms
Shortly after he confirmed the resignation of Rawlston Adams as General Manager of the Demerara Bridge (DHB) Corporation, Minister of...
Assuming U.S. presidency, Biden calls for end to ‘uncivil war’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democrat Joe Biden was sworn in as president of the United States on Wednesday, assuming the helm...
Rawlston Adams resigns as gift-buying scandal widens
After years of service to the Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB) Corporation, Rawlston Adams has resigned as the General Manager amid...
Lack of doctors, nurses forces relocation of Qatar mobile COVID hospital
The mobile COVID-19 hospital, which arrived in Guyana on Tuesday from the Government of Qatar, will now be installed in...
Courtney Benn Contracting Services flagged over millions owed to the State
Permanent Secretary (PS) of the Ministry of Public Works, Vladim Persaud on Wednesday, revealed that he has taken a decision...
Father of two killed in Berbice accident
An early morning accident at Number 23 Village, West Coast Berbice (Region Five) resulted in the death of 29-year-old Andre...
Patterson admits he received gifts but says ‘gifts for ministers nothing new’
Patterson now admits he received gifts but says ‘gifts for Ministers nothing new’ See below full statement issued: From the...
