Guyana News

So far this year, Guyana received an estimated 13,000 high-yielding Brazilian green dwarf coconut seed nuts at a cost of GUY$12 million (One Guyana dollar=US$0.004 cents) to expand coconut production.

Christmas celebrations for one Guyanese family will not be the same as three of their loved ones were killed in an earlier morning fire.

CCTV footage of the incident showed the men entering the supermarket around 8:46 pm and assaulting the cashier before robbing the register of approximately GYD $500,000 in cash.

In a statement last evening, GPF said it has communicated with senior officials at the NYPD and they confirmed “that Burke made no report to the NYPD against a GPF Officer and the Process Server who served him certain legal documents at his premises in New York, although he continues to allege publicly that he made such reports to the NYPD.”

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo told a news conference that he had received an “assurance” from the president and vice president of the EXIMBANK, Department of Commerce, and the US State Department that the loan application would “receive their full support” for the 300-megawatt electricity plant.

The United Kingdom is sending the Royal Navy patrol vessel HMS Trent off the coast of Guyana, a move announced by the UK Ministry of Defence.

Ketezel Bazillo, a 31-year-old self-employed resident of Lot 769 New Young Professionals Housing Scheme, Diamond, East Bank Demerara, was identified by police as the deceased.