By News Source Guyana on October 19, 2020
News, Politics
A total of 32 coronavirus related deaths have already been recorded since the start of October and the majority of the deaths were patients in the COVID-19 ICU at the Georgetown Hospital. The Health Ministry is still not providing details on the deaths other than the age of the persons and the Region where they […]
By News Source Guyana on October 19, 2020
News, Politics
The Ministry of Housing’s two day event for the distribution of land titles and new house lot applications saw more than 600 first time applications being made for house lots. The new applications add to the more than 30,000 applications already on file in the housing system. Housing Minister Collin Croal has assured the new […]
By News Source Guyana on October 19, 2020
News
Six weeks after the murders of teenage cousins Joel and Isaiah Henry and Haresh Singh, details on the Police probe remain sketchy. There have been no charges filed and the suspects who were initially held for the murder of the Henry cousins have since been released. Today, Opposition Leader Joe Harmon expressed concern about the […]
By News Source Guyana on October 19, 2020
News, Politics
With the state-owned sugar company, GUYSUCO, continuing to flood its lands at Success to get squatters off, the government has moved to set up sleeping facilities at an East Coast Primary School to house squatters who have been displaced. Many of the squatters have rejected the offer made by the Prime Minister for them to […]
By News Source Guyana on October 19, 2020
News, Politics
Guyana recorded two more Coronavirus deaths on Sunday, taking the death toll to 111. The latest fatalities have been identified as a 78-year-old man from Region One and a 55-year-old man from Region Four. No other details were released on the two deaths. The country has also recorded 24 new cases as of Saturday night […]
By News Source Guyana on October 19, 2020
Crime, News
Months after an attempt was made on his life, a Kitty man was shot dead in Sophia on Saturday night by two gunmen. 27-year-old Seon London aka “Gaza” was sitting with a friend outside a yard in C’ Field Sophia when the two gunmen, both armed with handguns, appeared and started shooting at him. The […]
By News Source Guyana on October 16, 2020
News, Politics
Leader of the Opposition Joe Harmon led an Opposition Parliamentary team to the community of Success on the East Coast of Demerara this morning to meet with squatters who are being flooded off state lands by the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GUYSUCO). Mr. Harmon called out the government for its treatment of the squatters and made […]
By News Source Guyana on October 16, 2020
News, Politics
While squatters are being flooded off of Guysuco lands at Success, President Irfaan Ali today called on those squatters to do the right thing, adding that squatter settlements are not sustainable. Speaking at the opening of a two-day event organised by the Ministry of Housing and Water for new house lot applicants and those receiving […]
By News Source Guyana on October 16, 2020
News, Politics
The number of COVID-19 deaths in Guyana climbed to 109 today as the Ministry of Health reported that a 71-year-old woman from Region Four and a 48-year-old man from Region One were the latest fatalities. The death toll has been climbing steadily in the past two and a half months. New cases have been climbing […]
By News Source Guyana on October 16, 2020
News
The Public Relations Officer at the Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission, Royden James was this morning fired with immediate effect with the Commission declaring that his position has been made redundant with a restructuring plan that is taking place. The Assistant to the Public Relations Officer was also dismissed, thereby disbanding the entire public relations […]