Guyana News

A key meeting of GECOM today on the results of the March 2nd general elections was deferred after a new legal action was filed.

The Ministry of the Presidency (MoTP) today rejected  the “wicked and highly outrageous statement issued to the media by Mr.

The police are investigating an early morning fire which damaged the unoccupied Army Base of the Second Infantry Battalion at Maria’s Lodge, Essequibo Coast.

A number of items including important files were this morning destroyed after a fire was allegedly set at the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) office at the Anna Regina Police Station, Essequibo Coast.

A fire of unknown origin this morning gutted the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) office at Wismar, Linden.

GECOM yesterday moved closer to the declaration of the PPP/C as the winner of the March 2nd general elections with Chairperson Claudette Singh  setting aside the 10 declarations submitted to the Commis-sion on March 13, 2020 and ordering the embattled Chief Election Officer (CEO) for the fourth time to submit the results of the painstaking recount.

A preliminary investigation has found that the seizure of contraband items, including marijuana, from an inmate and the assault of another by prison officers triggered Sunday’s unrest at the Lusignan Prison, where a wooden building was destroyed by fire.

Guyana has now reached the 300 mark as COVID-19 cases here  continue to rise.

The reconstruction of the structure that was torched at the Lusignan Prison on Sunday appears unlikely, according to de facto Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan, who says that expansion works at other prison facilities will create the capacity for the housing of more inmates.

Some APNU+AFC coalition supporters temporarily blocked caretaker president David Granger’s convoy as it was making its way out of State House yesterday as they demanded that he engage them.

With Region One (Barima-Waini)  becoming the epicentre of Guyana’s COVID-19 infections and lockdowns now instituted in certain areas, the regional chairman believes that there is need for wider relief for residents.

Amid continuing concerns about the electoral crisis in Guyana, Organisation of American States (OAS) Secretary General Luis Almagro is seeking a meeting of the Permanent Council of the body on the situation here.

Police are currently investigating the discovery of the partially decomposed body of a man in a Strathspey canal on the East Coast of Demerara.

The Ministry of Public Infrastructure’s Electrical Engineering Department yesterday highlighted the theft of 37 Light-Emitting Diode (LED) Street Lights in the following areas: According to the Department, the replacement cost per unit amounts to $73,000 which will cost the Ministry $2,701,000 in total to replace all 37 LED lights.

A New Amsterdam man accused of fatally stabbing, Nickosie Vankenie over a Guinness beer on July 3rd, was yesterday placed on $300,000 bail at the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court after he was charged with man-slaughter. 

A Rosignol, West Bank Berbice man was yesterday sentenced to four years imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to a possession of narcotics charge.

The Ministry of Public Infrastructure (MPI) yesterday said that metallic poles with street lights between La Grange and Pouderoyen, West Bank Demerara are being removed from near to a GPL feeder because of the risk posed to maintenance crews.

The Georgetown Mayor and City Council (M&CC) yesterday announced that the Bourda Market will be sanitised tomorrow.

All GTT retail stores have re-opened to customers. Effective July 13, 2020, GTT in a release yesterday said that it reopened both its store and kiosk locations at the Giftland Mall to facilitate in-person transactions, the final GTT retail location to re-open since closure at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Georgetown Mayor and City Council (M&CC) is still awaiting a response from John Fernandes Limited on a quotation for the damage done to the Municipal Abattoir.