49th COVID-19 related death recorded

A 65-year-old man is the country’s latest COVID-19 death. The man hailed from the Demerara/Mahaica region. According to a report from the Ministry of Health, the man died while receiving care at their medical facility. The MOH expresses sincerest condolences to the family of the deceased and will make every effort to provide all the […]

Bath Settlement man killed by protesters from his village

Dead is Chatterpaul Harripaul aka “Roy”, age 34 years, of Block BI Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice. The incident occurred just around 15:45 this afternoon at Bath Settlement Public road. The police in a report on the incident said their inquiries disclosed that the victim was in his motor vehicle on the Public Road at […]

Haresh Singh, age 17, of Number 3 Village, West Coast Berbice was killed during the morning of Wednesday 09 September, 2020, according to the police

Police say that Singh left home on his motorcycle to attend to his farm in the Backdam of No. 3 Vilage, West Coast Berbice, sometime after his relatives saw smoke arising from the said backdam and left to enquire when they discovered the body of Haresh Singh lying motionless and bleeding from the nose. His […]

President Ali issues statement

Statement by His Excellency Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali President of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana On the protest action in Region Five (Mahaica-Berbice) 2020.09.08 Seeking justice for Isaiah and Joel cannot be associated with the level of criminality, destruction of property and robbery committed on innocent Guyanese; this behaviour is an injustice to the case […]