Guyana News

The Guyana Court of Appeal is to rule on Monday at 1.30 pm in the case brought by Eslyn David against GECOM and the Chief Election Officer seeking to stop the declaration of the results of the March 2nd general elections.

Underlining the supremacy of the Constitution, GECOM Chair Claudette Singh yesterday urged the dismissal of a case before the Guyana Court of Appeal seeking to stop the declaration of results for the March 2nd general elections.

Saying that the APNU+AFC coalition has been deliberately fooling its supporters with grossly exaggerated claims of electoral fraud, former minister Dominic Gaskin yesterday urged the incumbent to be honest and accepts its defeat and work towards regaining the swing voters it will need to win any future elections.

The Justice For All Party (JFAP), a member of the incumbent APNU+AFC coalition, yesterday said it recognised that the opposition People’s Progressive Party/ Civic (PPP/C) has won the March 2nd elections and it argued that presidential candidate Irfaan Ali should be allowed to be sworn in without any delay.

Almost half of the persons who have tested positive for the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the Moruca sub-district, in Region One (Barama-Waini), are teachers and the Ministry of Education yesterday ordered all schools there shuttered until the spread of the virus is contained.

Following reports that the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) recently decided to not honour claims for sickness or accident benefits made by sugar workers, the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers’ Union (GAWU) yesterday called on the entity to rescind the decision.

The body of a 17-year-old Stanleytown, New Amster-dam girl was fished out of the Berbice River on Thursday evening and two persons have since been arrested as police are seeking to determine if she was a victim of foul play. 

Two repatriation flights from Trinidad and Barbados yesterday brought home over 300 Guyanese nationals who were stranded abroad after borders were closed by governments to curb travel during the still-ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Two men were yesterday remanded to prison after they were charged with the murder of construction worker Andy Williams, whose partially decomposed body was discovered floating in a trench at Met-en-meerzorg, West Coast Demerara (WCD) two weeks ago.

A post-mortem examination done on the body of the Tain Settlement pensioner Chandradarie Budhu has revealed that she was strangled and struck to the head by her attackers. 

Guyanese Priest, Father (Fr) John Persaud, was on Friday appointed as the Bishop of Mande-ville, Jamaica.

Following a request by security agencies, a temporary ban has been placed on the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones, over Georgetown and a section of the East Bank of Demerara.

An Xpress Delivery Service delivery man was held at gunpoint and robbed of his motorcycle and other valuables at Congress Drive, South Ruimveldt Park yesterday morning.

The police are seeking the public’s assistance in locating a man, who is wanted for questioning in relation to larceny by public officer.

The payment of old age pensions for July will begin on Monday, June 29, 2020 at all post offices countrywide, the Ministry of Social Protection announced yesterday.

Although the incumbent APNU+AFC coalition has publicly maintained that the elections were not credible, its Prime Ministerial candidate Khemraj Ramjattan on Wednesday told members of his staff that he is prepared to accept the results of the national recount of votes cast at the March 2nd polls which show a victory for the opposition PPP/C.

Several persons lost their home following a fire that gutted a Prashad Nagar, Georgetown home yesterday afternoon.

AFC executive and former Minister of Business in the APNU+AFC government, Dominic Gaskin tonight said that there was no reasonable basis on which the governing coalition can  claim to have won more votes than the PPP/C in the March 2nd elections and he said claims of fraud have been “grossly exaggerated”.

The Justice For All Party (JFAP), a component of the incumbent APNU+AFC coalition today called for the swearing in of PPP/C presidential candidate Irfaan Ali.

The Ministry of Education (M0E) says that a total of eleven teachers of the Moruca sub-district, Region One have tested positive for the Coronavirus as of noon today.