Guyana News

The three new parties that are expected to share a seat in the next Parliament have rejected overtures from the incumbent APNU+AFC for “dialogue” on the way forward for Guyana, calling its posture insincere.

The body of the late president of the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers’ Union (GAWU), Komal Chand returned to Guyana yesterday on a flight from Cuba.

Guyana on Friday recorded its 20th COVID-19 fatality along with one new case.

Navindra Samaroo, the youth who was fatally shot at Middle Road, La Penitence on Thursday, died due to internal haemorrhaging, an autopsy has found.

In observance of its tenth anniversary, the Guyana Photographers Face-book Group has hosted a number of activities to commemorate the milestone and will also be releasing a series of photography-themed magazines in Guyana next month.

A porter died on Tuesday while another was left injured after they jumped from a tractor which toppled while descending a hill along the Arawai Trail, Mazaruni River.

The driver who was involved in the accident that claimed the life of grass cutter Wayne James on Tuesday evening has been released on station bail.

Ranks of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) are currently in pursuit of two persons they have identified as main suspects in the recent chopping of a Lusignan resident.

The Liberty and Justice Party led by Lenox Shuman today spurned a proposal for talks by APNU+AFC and said that a good first step would be for the incumbent coalition to concede that it had lost the March 2nd elections.

Saying that it is not open to talks with the caretaker government, A New and United Guyana  (ANUG) today said that the resolution to the current crisis lies in APNU+AFC conceding the election and allowing a new administration to be sworn in.

Chief Election Officer Keith Lowenfield was released on $450,000 bail this morning after he was formally read private criminal charges alleging fraud and misconduct in his handling of the results of the March 2nd elections.

Even as the EPA works on “tightening the language” for permits so that start-up periods are not abused by companies, ExxonMobil is currently producing 98,000 barrels of oil per day at the Liza-1 offshore well and hopes to meet its 120,000 per day target on August 10th 2020, the same day that routine flaring is projected to end, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Director Dr Vincent Adams said yesterday.

The South Rupununi District Council (SRDC) yesterday said that two elderly residents of the village of Potarinau who had been in contact with persons who tested positive for COVID-19 have died.

A man was killed yesterday in a suspected robbery at Middle Road, La Penitence, in Georgetown.

Chief Election Officer Keith Lowenfield was finally served yesterday with summonses pertaining to three private criminal charges filed against him over alleged elections fraud and he is due to face the court today.

The body of a Corentyne man was retrieved yesterday morning from a creek in Region Seven in which he disappeared while swimming with friends.  

General Secretary of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) Amna Ally has refused to confirm or deny that APNU+AFC  will be participating in a series of public meetings this weekend.

Almost two weeks after two new cases of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) were detected in Itabac, Region Eight, health officials are yet to go into the indigenous community to commence requisite contact tracing and quarantining in keeping with established Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) protocols.

Caribbean Airlines will today bring home 147 Guyanese who were stranded in Jamaica, Cuba and Barbados as the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCCA) has granted approval for another repatriation flight.

A pensioner and his family lost their home on Wednesday night when a fire of electrical origin destroyed a two-storey house at Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara.