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The World Bank approved on Wednesday US$6 million in additional financing for the Guyana COVID-19 Emergency Response Project to support affordable and equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines and ensure effective vaccine deployment in Guyana. The financial institution says the project will also support general preparedness, resilience, and overall health system strengthening. “An efficient and equitable rollout of COVID-19 vaccines will ...

Police on Wednesday arrested opposition parliamentarian Annette Ferguson for allegedly committing a Cybercrime offence by claiming a senior Guyana Defence Force (GDF) officer would be heading a killing squad. Investigators said the file has been dispatched to to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for legal advice. The Guyana Police Force said the senior GDF officer reported that Ms. Ferguson ...

A United States (US) Congressman is interested in aggressively pushing American-made vaccines in the Caribbean , in a move aimed at countering China’s influence in the region where thousands of Chinese jabs have been delivered directly to countries. Chairman of the US Senate sub-committee on the Western Hemisphere, Congressman Albio Sires made it clear that he preferred to see the ...

India on Tuesday announced that it has for the first time offered the single largest number of military courses to Guyanese soldiers which would last from three to six months during 2021 to 2022. After a number of former GDF officers objected to the initial assertion that “this is the first time that Guyana has access to these military training ...

The Chairman of the United States (US) Congressional sub-committee on the Western Hemisphere, Albio Sires has said that his country intends to engage Guyana to ensure all Guyanese benefit from the country’s growing oil wealth. “In Guyana, where I travelled this year, we should work to ensure that proceeds of oil revenues benefit the entire population,” he said in a ...

Four persons were Tuesday charged with the murder of Haresh Singh at Number Three Village, West Coast Berbice last year September, police said Tuesday. The Guyana Police Force said it has “received legal advice as it relates to instituting charges against” the quartet. Four persons, who were arrested by ranks from the Guyana Police Force’s Major Crimes Unit, were charged ...

Insisting that President Irfaan Ali’s suspension of the Police Service Commission (PSC) is unconstitutional, Retired Assistant Commissioner Paul Slowe and others on Monday announced the promotion of several officers. In a letter to the President, the lawyers for Slowe and the others, their lawyer Selwyn Pieters stated that the purported suspension was unconstitutional because the Tribunal has not been established ...

Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire on Monday ruled against several officers of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) who had challenged the refusal of the Police Service Commission to promote them because they have pending disciplinary matters. “There is nothing unlawful in considering disciplinary matters in the determination of whether the applicants should be promoted. Therefore, the declarations and certiorari sought cannot ...

As engineers make efforts to drain the yards of more than 1,000 residents in the agriculture-dependent community of Wash Clothes, Mahaicony, the Minister of Agriculture Zulfikar Mustapha said the long-term plan includes addressing concerns about occupying the government reserve. During his latest visit to the area on Saturday, the minister told flood-weary residents that engineers would this week build damns ...

Three men have been killed in an explosion aboard a coastal fuel tanker at a wharf at Friendship, East Bank Demerara while gasoline was being pumped out of the vessel into plastic bottles, police said. “At the time there were no maintenance works being conducted on the said vessel,” police said and “It appears that the deceased were pumping gasoline ...