Guyana News

Months after the death of Pomeroon River farmer Ryan Khayum, who perished after an accident involving a Guyana Defence Force (GDF) vessel, his family is still awaiting justice.

Sukraj ‘Aaron’ Niranjan, 55, was forced to quit school after being paralyzed at aged eight for four years, but he became a self-taught tailor, which later helped him to secure a job with an organisation in New York that supplies outfits to the US Army.

United States-based Guyanese political commentator Rickford Burke last month lost libel suits he had filed back in 2013 against MTV, Guyana Times, and Little Rock TV.

Despite warnings being issued, vending is continuing outside of the newly constructed Infectious Disease Hospital, at Liliendaal, East Coast Demerara, and Georgetown Mayor Ubraj Narine has said that the City Council will not allow tolerate such lawlessness.

A New and United Guyana (ANUG) yesterday said that the GECOM Chair Claudette Singh continues to show weakness by indulg-ing Chief Election Officer’s (CEO) Keith Lowenfield’s “gross professional misconduct” and it urged her to fire the “ignoble” CEO and get on with the Commission’s business.

Sharmila Inderjali, the mother of former murder accused Marcus Bisram, and her co-accused, Maryanna Lionel, who were on trial for allegedly offering a detective $4 million to forego charges against Bisram and others, are expected to be sentenced this week.

Paramaribo,  (Reuters) – Suriname’s National Assembly voted in former justice minister Chan Santokhi as its new president today, ending the rule of former strongman Desi Bouterse, who had dominated the country’s politics in recent decades.

GECOM Chair Claudette Singh today instructed CEO Keith Lowenfield to submit the results of the recount of the March 2nd elections by 2 pm tomorrow and she stated that the existing declarations for the 10 districts will be set aside, according to commissioners who attended the Commission’s meeting.

Eleven inmates were injured and hundreds more dislocated when prisoners set fire to a dorm yesterday at the Lusignan Prison following a drug seizure.

With the certifying of the outcome of the March 2nd polls still hanging in the balance, the stage is set when GECOM  meets this morning  for the firing of Chief Election Officer (CEO)  Keith Lowenfield who has thrice defied instructions by the Chairperson, Justice Retired Claudette Singh to present the results of the recount A meeting is scheduled for 10 am at the Commission’s High and Cowan streets, Kingston Headquarters.

Commonwealth Secretary General Patricia Scotland yesterday strongly encouraged GECOM to “follow the directions given by the CCJ and decisively conclude the 2 March 2020 elections based on the results of the national recount.”

The family of the latest COVID-19 fatality, a sixty-nine-year-old woman who died on Saturday while in isolation at the West Demerara Regional Hospital (WDRH) have since alleged that she contracted the virus while she was a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

A New and United Guyana  presidential candidate Ralph Ramkarran yesterday rapped de facto Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo for helping to “restore PNC dictatorship” on the basis of rigged elections which he said both of them in their youth as members of the PPP had fought against.

The Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Guyana (FITUG) yesterday said that the antics of the Chief Election Officer, Keith Lowenfield have demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt that he cannot be expected to discharge his functions in an impartial and fair manner.

Face masks are mandatory when travelling on speedboats because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Guyana Goldfields Inc (GGI) on Wednesday announced that it had processed the last batch of ore from its stockpile at the Aurora gold mine in Cuyuni/Mazaruni and will continue to recover gold in circuit inventory over the next several days.

Six more persons have tested positive for COVID-19 bringing the total number of infected persons to 297.

Hand in Hand Mutual Life Assurance Company Ltd is offering one year’s free life insurance coverage to all public health care workers countrywide. 

The Government of Guyana is seeking bidders for the construction of a fish processing plant at Victoria on the East Coast of Demerara.

An attempt to set fire to the cultural landmark, the Umana Yana was foiled early yesterday after an alert security guard raised an alarm scaring off a man.