Guyana News

Police have arrested a person of interest in relation to the shooting death of a Kitty construction worker which occurred just after daybreak on June 22 in Agricola.

As part of its strategy to improve its customer service and overall operations, the Guyana Tourism Authority (GTA) recently added nine newly-licensed tourist guides to its ranks.

Elroy Oral Bristol, 25, is wanted by the police in relation to possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking committed on 23rd June, 2020 at Patrick’s Dam Angoy’s Avenue, New Amsterdam, Berbice.

Counsel for PPP presidential candidate Irfaan Ali and PPP General Secretary Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday wrote GECOM Chair Claudette Singh asking her to direct Chief Election Officer Keith Lowenfield to withdraw his report to her in which the votes of over 115,000 voters were trashed and in which he purports to declare the incumbent APNU+AFC as the winner of the March 2nd general elections.

Expressing bewilderment that the Chief Election Officer Keith Lowenfield could discard over 115,000 votes, CARICOM Chair Mia Mottley yesterday emphasised that the results of the recount of the March 2nd General Elections are the valid figures and she slammed what she termed “gamesmanship” in the electoral process.

The 21 additional novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases recorded this week in Santa Rosa, Region One, have completely overwhelmed the health system in the indigenous village, leaving health authorities with no option but to erect isolation tents at a sports ground which lacks a water supply system.

Attorney General (AG) Basil Williams is contending that the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) does not have jurisdiction to hear the intended appeal of last week’s ruling by the Guyana Court of Appeal that the words “more votes cast” should be interpreted to mean “more valid votes are cast in relation to the elections held on 2nd March 2020.”

A male resident of Bartica, Region Seven, yesterday tested positive for the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and was subsequently transferred to an isolation facility in Georgetown as he was displaying symptoms of the respiratory ailment.

If there had been any doubt, it has all been erased by the grotesque report submitted on Tuesday by Chief Election Officer, Keith Lowenfield to GECOM Chair, Justice Ret’d Claudette Singh.

The Private Sector Com-mission (PSC) yesterday urged the suspension of Chief Election Officer (CEO) Keith Lowenfield from any further participation in the election process charging that the results of the March 2 elections he presented on Tuesday, which give the APNU+AFC a majority of the votes cast, are “clearly fraudulent…if not criminal.”

A 24-year-old father of two is now dead after the motorcycle he was riding crashed into a culvert at Blenheim, Leguan in the wee hours of yesterday.

Former Member of Parliament, Barbara Pilgrim; Director of Health, Jevaughn Stephens; and several supporters of APNU+AFC are expected to appear in the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court to answer the charge of breaching COVID-19 restrictions on gatherings on June 18. 

The Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) is seeking the public’s assistance in locating a number of individuals, who are deemed “persons of interest” for allegedly making racially insensitive remarks about others on social media.

Caretaker President David Granger yesterday said that members of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) will benefit from increased training at every level over the next ten years under the ‘Decade of Development’.

The Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Guyana (FITUG) has described the recent report submitted by Chief Election Officer (CEO), Keith Lowenfield as a continuation of the “naked attempts to thwart the will of the people.”

Even as government continues to function in caretaker mode with the results of the March 2nd elections still to be declared, the state’s holding company, the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL), continues to pursue investments and even entered into an agreement in relation to energy generation at the Skeldon Estate earlier this month.

The skeletal remains of an unidentified person were discovered in an abandoned building on High and Princes streets, Georgetown earlier this month.

A two-year-old child is missing and feared dead after the canoe in which she was travelling capsized in the Kukui River, Region Seven on Tuesday afternoon.

Sixteen persons, including six minor children, have been placed in quarantine at a facility in Lethem following the confirmation of two cases of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Region Nine on Monday.

Almost three years after being charged with trafficking over 94 kilograms of cocaine on-board a vessel in the Pomeroon River, two Essequibo residents were sentenced and fined for the crime.