Guyana News

The Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) will have to raise the price of some of its rum products as local molasses shortages have seen the company having to import the product for most of the past three years.

Due to the COVID-19 impact globally, especially on the oil market, Guyana’s projected 2020 growth rate has been revised from 87% to 57%, Governor of the Bank of Guyana Dr Gobind Ganga said on Friday, while also confirming that the non-oil sector is headed to negative growth.

Amidst growing calls by western allies for him to concede defeat at the March 2 polls, caretaker president David Granger has reaffirmed Guyana’s commitment to western hemispheric values.

Up to Friday, 15 new novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases were confirmed in Region One, where the total number of active cases has risen to 60.

Four persons, including a three-year-old child, have tested positive for COVID-19 at Bartica as cases in the Cuyuni-Mazaruni region continue to rise.

A team from the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) on Thursday inspected the COVID-19 measures in place at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) ahead of next week’s proposed reopening for international flights.

No novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) testing is being done this weekend as the National Reference Laboratory has been closed to facilitate electrical maintenance.

Dinesha Victor, a local entrepreneur and co-founder of the Curl Fête Guyana Natural Hair and Beauty Expo, has died.

An 11-month-old child died in Charity last Tuesday after drowning in a bucket of water while her mother was washing.

Police are investigating the death of an Essequibo man who was found dead in a Pomeroon trench.

Police believe they have captured one of the suspects in a recent violent robbery committed on an Albouystown motorcyclist in Georgetown.

A family of three was displaced yesterday afternoon after a fire destroyed a Sophia house.

A 62-year-old Brazilian gold miner was beaten and robbed of a quantity of raw gold in an attack on Friday afternoon and the police say they have arrested three of his employees, who have admitted to the crime.

Three persons are now dead after a fire of unknown origin destroyed a Cummings Lodge apartment building this evening. 

President of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) Nicholas Deygoo-Boyer has written Chief Election Officer Keith Lowenfield calling on him to withdraw his report to GECOM which discards over 115,000 votes and purports to award victory to APNU+AFC.

Chief Election Officer (CEO) Keith Lowenfield yesterday defended his decision to invalidate the votes of over 115,000 citizens that were cast at the March 2nd polls by saying that he has acted lawfully, which the main opposition later said was “simply an untruth.”

In the face of mounting regional and international pressure to concede, the APNU+AFC coalition yesterday voiced its support for the report submitted by Chief Election Officer (CEO) Keith Lowenfield that claims it won the March 2 polls after he discarded over 115,000 votes.

The outgoing chair of CARICOM, Barbadian Prime Minister Mia Mottley yesterday firmly stood by her position in relation to Guyana’s protracted elections, saying to her detractors here that “The truth hurts”.

Dickwon Nigel Adams, the boyfriend of the pregnant Stanleytown, New Amsterdam, teenager whose body was fished out of the Berbice River last week, was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with her murder.   

The ND&S Furniture Store and its factory, located at La Jalousie, West Coast Demerara (ECD), were destroyed on Thursday evening in what authorities are calling a “suspicious” fire, which has left millions of dollars in losses and more than two dozen employees jobless.