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Coronavirus Claims Life of NY Based Guyanese School Nurse

As the coronavirus spread in early March, Marilyn Howard worked side-by-side at Spring Street Community School in Brooklyn with a fellow nurse who came in with a fever and bad cough because she had run out of paid sick days. Howard, 53, started feeling sick that weekend, when Mayor de …

BVI Based Guyanese Businessman Martin “Tony” Alphonso Injured

Martin “Tony” Alphonso, a well-known Guyanese businessman, was injured in a vehicular accident in Fish Bay last Thursday afternoon, according to multiple news outlets and information provided by police. A video circulating on social media depicts a man kneeling down and pressing a bandage to Mr. Alphonso’s head, while bystanders …

Chinese Zijin, the mystery miner buying Guyana Goldfields

China’s Zijin Mining has emerged as the unnamed multinational that trumped Silvercorp Metals’ (TSX, NYSE: SVM) bid for Guyana Goldfields (TSX: GUY), with a deal that values the target miner at C$323 million ($238m). The Fujian-based mining giant has offered Guyana C$1.85 in cash for each common share, which is 35% higher than …

Guyanese Based Islander charged following firearm & drug find

The two men held after a loaded firearm and marijuana were found following a traffic stop by police at the roundabout in Road Town, Tortola, on April 28, 2020, have been formally charged. Guyanese Damian Hooper, 23, of Huntums Ghut and Vincentian Corey Butler, 33, of Long Bay, West End …