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Efforts are underway to deploy barges to move supplies across the Demerara River, even as workers aim to repair the Demerara Harbour Bridge and resume operations by next week, Public Works Minister Juan Edghill said Saturday. The Demerara Harbour Bridge was damaged and misaligned early Saturday morning when a fuel tanker, MV Tradewind Passion, slammed into it. With the Georgetown ...

The Guyanese pilot of the Panama-registered fuel tanker, MV Tradewind Passion, was suspended from duty on Saturday and would most likely be banned from duty following the vessel’s collision with the Demerara Harbour Bridge, Director-General of the Maritime Administration Stephen Thomas said. “He has been instantly suspended from piloting and most likely it will be permanent,” he told reporters on ...

In the wake of major damage to the Demerara Harbour Bridge, speedboats, also called water-taxis, were from Saturday allowed to work 24 hours but the Maritime Administration (MARAD) warned against an increase in fares. “Consequent upon the closure of the Demerara Harbour Bridge following a collision on October 8, 2022, the Demerara River water taxis will offer 24-hour service, until ...

The Alliance For Change (AFC) has castigated government for reducing the amount of funds to the locally established International Decade for People of African Descent- Guyana (IDPADA-G). “The AFC views this kind of politics as wholly anti-national and its consequences will create only deeper fissures within our ethnic communities which manage by and large,” the AFC said in a statement, ...

Commuters will Saturday be unable to cross the Demerara Harbour Bridge because an oil/chemical tanker smashed a section of that east-west corridor, President Irfaan Ali said. “The Demerara Harbour Bridge is rendered inoperable after a vessel, MV Tradewind Passion, collided with the bridge,” he said on his Facebook page. Dr. Ali said efforts were being made to repair the bridge ...

The Ministry of Health’s Chief Medical Officer Dr Narine Singh has instructed that persons travelling to Guyana no longer need to be vaccinated against the coronavirus, COVID-19. He told the Director-General of the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA), Retired Lt Col. Egbert Field that “the government of Guyana has taken a decision to lift the COVID-19 vaccine requirement for entry ...

A 14-year-old girl, who says a woman was taking her into a gold mining area to sell alcohol, has been rescued and handed over to the Child Care and Protection Agency. Police are treating the offence as Trafficking In Persons. The woman, who was arrested at the Bartica Ferry Stelling, also remains in custody. Police say they found almost 500 ...

A 35-year-old man of Tabatinga, Central Rupununi, has been arrested for allegedly being in possession of more than 8 kilogrammes of marijuana and more than 1 kilogramme of cocaine. Police say early Thursday morning, they intercepted the vehicle that the unemployed man was driving. Also in the vehicle were a woman and their nine-month-old son. Investigators say a search unearthed ...

Two men have been charged with robbing a Guyana Defence Force soldier of several items. Police say that among the items stolen from Private Marlon Reynolds was a motorcycle that belongs to the GDF. Those charged are 32-year-old Junior Jordan, a labourer of Non-Pariel Street, Albouystown and 18-year-old Brandon Robinson of Hunter Street, Albouystown, Georgetown. They were not required to ...

A Jamaican accreditation agency, which operates to United States Food and Drugs Administration (USFDA) standards, is offering to certify Guyana’s laboratories for food exports to that North American country, officials said late Thursday. “We are planning to have a relationship with Guyana so that as you produce more food , we provide the testing, in partnership with a Guyanese company ...