Guyana News

Yesterday’s Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) ruling has been welcomed by Presidential Candidate Irfaan Ali and all of the small parties which contested the March 2 General and Regional Elections, and after four months of waiting they hope it will pave the way for a swift declaration and swearing in of Ali.

The main suspect in the murder of 37-year-old Sophia resident Andrev Easton was fatally shot yesterday by police ranks after an exchange of gunfire.

Saying that he has had engagements with “girls” whom as a grown man he should have had no business dealing with, writer Ruel Johnson in a statement yesterday apologised to all the women who he has hurt while revealing that he has resigned from the party he helped to found.

Commissioners of the Guyana Elections Commission have been invited by Chairperson (ret’d) Justice Claudette Singh to a meeting today at 1:30pm to discuss the way forward pertaining to a declaration of results from the March 2nd elections, following yesterday’s Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) ruling.

Read: CCJ's full ruling in 'valid votes' case

Envoys from the US, UK, Canada and the European Union (EU)  yesterday met with Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr Karen Cummings to reiterate that their missions expects the Government of Guyana to uphold the then pending ruling of the Caribbean Court of Justice and that the recount results must be used.

The collapse of a Banks DIH building located in the Ruimveldt Industrial Site that was being demolished has left one demolition worker dead and another nursing injuries at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).

Beverley Gomes, the 50-year-old Corentyne resident who is accused of stealing a baby from its mother about four months ago was yesterday charged and remanded to prison.

A fire yesterday at the Suddie Magistrate’s Court burnt the magistrate’s chair, documents and the prisoner’s dock and arson is suspected.

The Cuyuni/Mazaruni region has recorded a total of 38 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases to date, seven of which are from Bartica.

An elevated precast concrete girder bridge equipped with two traffic lanes and a footpath has been proposed to replace the existing Wismar, Linden Bridge which has been deteriorating over the years.

A Corentyne single mother is now contemplating her next move after the house she was residing in with her three children collapsed yesterday morning.

Communities along Guyana’s coast were yesterday faced with heavy rainfall and wind storms which led to the collapsing of a house and damaged roofs for some.

United States Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, Michael Kozak last evening added to the call that the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) declare the results of the March 2, 2020 general and regional elections based on the vote recount.

A nineteen-year-old Venezuelan national is feared to have drowned after it was reported he had gone missing on Monday midday after falling overboard in the Upper Cuyuni River.

An accident at Dundee, Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara, involving a motorcar and a motorcycle on Saturday, has claimed the life of one, and left another injured.

Jennifer Cipriani, the co-owner of Reliable Automo-tive Service and Acme Marketing Consultancy, was on Monday robbed after dropping her sister off at their parents’ residence at Agricola.

Despite today’s ruling by the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), caretaker President David Granger is still insisting that there was widespread fraud in the March 2nd general elections and that the matter will now have to be finally decided by GECOM.

In language reminiscent of what had been employed in the motion of no confidence case when it ruled that 33 was the majority of  65, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) today said that Article 177 (2) (b) of the constitution was pellucid and required no interpretation.

The Caribbean Court of Justice today threw out a controversial Guyana Court of Appeal decision that inserted the word valid into the consideration of votes for the election of a President.