Guyana News

Seventy-eight tests for the novel coronavirus disease were conducted during the last testing cycle, while three new cases were recorded.

Three persons from George-town were arrested on Tues-day and one is now on the run, after they were busted by police with a quantity of cannabis in the vicinity of Sandaka, Canje River.

Four more residents of the Palms Geriatric Home have recovered from the novel coronavirus, bringing the number of recoveries in the institution to seven, according to a release from the Ministry of Social Protection.

The minibus driver who it was alleged caused a car to run off the La Grange Public Road and into a nearby drain on Sunday is to appear in court on a dangerous driving charge.

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.

Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland today added to the chorus of international voices expressing concern over the delay in finalizing the March 2nd election result and she said that figures presented by the Chief Election Officer different from those of the recount would be “contrary to the fundamental principles which are treasured by the Commonwealth family and are enshrined in our Commonwealth Charter”.

CARICOM Chair, Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley today slammed the “gamesmanship” surrounding the Guyana elections and expressed bewilderment that  the Chief Election Officer could cancel over 115,000 votes.

The representatives of the US, UK, Canada and the European Union (EU) today expressed concern at the continuing delay in declaring the results of the March 2nd elections and they said that pending the outcome of the current appeal to the CCJ they trust that GECOM will use the figures from the recount.

Following a ruling on Monday by the Appeal Court, Chief Election Officer Keith Lowenfield yesterday submitted to the Guyana Elections Com-mission (GECOM) what he claims to be a report of the “valid and credible votes” cast at the March 2 polls.

The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has issued an order that restrains the Guyana Elections Com-mission (GECOM) from declaring the results of the March 2nd polls, following an approach by the opposition People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) to challenge Monday’s ruling by Guyana’s Court of Appeal on the constitutional meaning of “votes cast” at the March 2 polls.

With the government’s move to transfer at least 10 properties to private companies earlier this month coming under scrutiny, the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL) yesterday said that it was simply finalising the sale of some of GuySuCo’s assets to help assist the cash-strapped corporation.

The Chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has advised that a police officer be charged in relation to the death of taxi driver, Lallbachan Bachan, who was discovered dead in the Suddie Police Station lockup almost a year ago but to date no charge has been laid.

Navindra Jodhan, a Berbice policeman who was hospitalised after an accident just over a week ago, succumbed at the Georgetown Public Hospital yesterday.

Water from the Atlantic Ocean has once again inundated Mahaicony farmlands at Dantzig, East Coast Demerara following high tides and small breaches in the sea defence.

A family of eight is now homeless after a fire completely destroyed their Duncan Street, Campbell-ville home late last evening.

President David Granger, once very vocal about the role of CARICOM in the National Recount has been silent on the report submitted last week by the three-person scrutinizing team which observed the process.

While declaring that the March 2nd election “has gone on long enough”, the Organization of American States (OAS) yesterday called for the process to be “brought to an end, based on the results of the national recount.”

Guyana’s National COVID-19 Task Force (NCTF) yesterday announced that Guyana’s borders with neighbouring Brazil and Suriname will remain closed until further notice even as two more repatriation flights were approved.

Christopher Pollard, the teenager who was seriously injured in Sunday’s hit-and-run accident along the Enmore, East Coast Deme-rara Public Road which claimed the life of his elder brother remains hospitalised.

One more COVID-19 case was reported yesterday, according to the Ministry of Public Health.