Guyana News

The Ministry of Education – Guyana is registering vehemently with the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC), its dissatisfaction with the apparent poor grading of students at the 2020 CSEC and CAPE examinations.

President Irfaan Ali has vowed that there will be a revamped electoral machinery so that there is never a repeat of the long delays for elections results or blatant attempts to rig, experiences that he says he shudders to remember.

President Irfaan Ali yesterday called for unity when he attended a private viewing of the body of Haresh Singh at Persaud’s Funeral Home in New Amsterdam hours before he was taken home and then to the Number Three backdam where he was finally laid to rest. 

High Court criminal trials are set to recommence on October 6th when the final of the assizes for this year is also expected to be declared open.

Ninety-eight new cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) were confirmed by the Ministry of Health yesterday in addition to one new death.

As COVID-19 cases and deaths surge here, Eureka Medical Laboratories Inc (EML), is expected to commence novel coronavirus PCR testing by this weekend according to the Deputy Chief Medical Officer (DCMA) Dr Karen Gordon-Boyle.

Addressing the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly yesterday, President Irfaan Ali made a strong defence of multilateralism in addressing questions surrounding Guyana’s territorial integrity, climate change and the raging COVID-19 pandemic.

Attorney General Anil Nandlall has rejected claims from APNU+AFC MP Roysdale Forde that a Statement of Excess for monies spent since the dissolution of Parliament last year should have already been tabled in the National Assembly.

The US$5m COVID-19 loan application to the World Bank by the APNU+AFC government was not approved and had to be resubmitted by the PPP/C administration when it took office, sources say.

The Ministry of Human Services and Social Security yesterday said that old age pension payments for October 2020 will begin on Tuesday, September 29, 2020 at all post offices countrywide.

Autopsies performed on Winston Herbert and Earl Graham, the two inmates who were fatally wounded after they attempted to escape from the Lusignan Prison on Saturday revealed that they were both shot in the chest.

Five years after being sentenced to a combined 202 years for the gruesome murder of 16-year-old Queen’s College (QC) student Neesa Gopaul, her mother Bibi Sharima-Gopaul and her former lover Jarvis Small will on October 1st make their first appearance before the Court of Appeal.

A Survivor’s Advocacy Programme for domestic violence victims is to be launched before the end of the quarter.

A resident of East Street, South Cummingsburg, Georgetown, was on Tuesday arrested and charged with possession of a quantity of narcotics suspected to be cannabis.

A hunt is underway for remanded prisoner Leroy Graham, who escaped from the Lusignan Prison during the wee hours of yesterday morning.

Nurses attached to the Linden Hospital Complex yesterday staged a demonstration outside of the hospital to demand a COVID-19 risk allowance and more personal protective equipment (PPE).

The St Joseph Mercy Hospital is observing its 75th anniversary. A statement today from the hospital follows: GEORGETOWN, Guyana, September 23, 2020: The St.

At approximately 1.30 am today, remanded prisoner Leroy Graham, 23,  escaped from the Lusignan Prison, the Guyana Prison Service said.

As he announced that rehiring of sugar workers at Rose Hall estate began yesterday, President Irfaan Ali said government is now focused on redeveloping farmlands in order to deliver on its campaign promise to reopen shuttered estates since the former administration left the industry in ruins. 

The current criminal proceedings and the elections petitions stemming from the March 2nd polls appear to have led government to shelve its plans to proceed with an independent inquiry into the attempt to manipulate the results.