Guyana News

A resident of Culvert City in Lethem on Wednesday tested positive for the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo Region to Five.

Commissioner of Police Leslie James and Deputy Commissioner Maxine Graham have not proceeded on their accumulated leave ahead of their respective retirements as they have had to oversee already planned operations for the general and regional elections, President David Granger has said.

Two weeks after the disappearance of a police constable, his mother Charlene Jordan is yet to receive answers from members of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) about her son’s disappearance.

A driver of West Coast Berbice (WCB) was placed on $575,000 bail on Tuesday after being slapped with four traffic charges including causing death by dangerous driving of 16 year-old Sheldon Major, of 76 Enmore North,  East Coast Demerara, on June 22.

While the rest of the country has been caught up with the coronavirus pandemic, residents of Masakenari in Region Nine have been silently suffering from the  lack of food and basic items, the Toshao there has revealed.

Sacked workers of Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc (BCGI), a subsidiary of Russian Aluminum (RUSAL) continue to hold firm to their position that the company needs to resolve a long-running dispute over wages and salaries.

A Brazilian miner died on Tuesday after a 200-pound-plus rock crushed him to death while he was working at Puruni Mines in Region Seven.

Guyana has now recorded 14 deaths as a result of COVID-19 even as the number of positive cases rose to 250.  

A Charlestown businessman was shot twice and robbed of $200,000 after four men invaded his premises on Wednesday afternoon.

Autopsies done on Wednesday have confirmed that the three persons who died in the Cummings Lodge apartment complex fire last Saturday succumbed to smoke inhalation.

Another COVID-19 patient has succumbed, taking the national death toll to 14.

 (Reuters) – Exxon Mobil Corp’s oil and gas producing and refining businesses will report operating losses in the second quarter, it said in a regulatory filing today, setting the stage for the company to post another quarterly loss this year.

After listening to more than six hours of submissions, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) yesterday set next Wednesday at 3pm to rule on whether it has jurisdiction to hear the appeal taken before it by PPP General Secretary Bharrat Jagdeo and PPP/C presidential candidate Irfaan Ali, challenging the decision of the local Court of Appeal to pronounce on the constitutional meaning of “votes cast” at the March 2 polls.

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) will support a democratically-elected government, newly-appointed acting Chief Staff, Brigadier Godfrey Bess yesterday said.

The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) has a new lease on its financial life after receiving a disbursement of a quarter of a billion dollars from the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL) under the $30b syndicated bond for the industry.

In the face of mounting pressure to accept the results of the recount which show that he lost the March 2nd  general elections, President David Granger yesterday said that he will not prematurely accept either defeat or a win and will await the official declaration of the Guy-ana Elections Commission (GECOM).

Guyana has now recorded its 13th death as a result of the novel coronavirus even as three more positive cases were recorded.

The second phase of Guyana’s reopening process is expected to commence tomorrow even as the nationwide 6am to 6pm curfew will remain in effect.

The first day of the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) was met with complaints of short notice and a student being prohibited from sitting the exam in Santa Rosa.

A sharp rise in COVID-19 cases in recent days has seen the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) delaying the start of Phase Two of the reopening of international airports by a month.