Guyana News

Tyrone Rowe called ‘Cobra’ was yesterday released from prison after completing his sentence for the 2010 killing of Troy Collymore, who he shot after a robbery at a Plaisance, East Coast Demerara, pharmacy.

During the National Recount the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) allowed itself to be manipulated by the two larger political parties and violated the rights of the Guyanese electorate.

Andy Williams, the construction worker whose partially decomposed body was discovered floating in a trench at Meten-Meer-Zorg, West Coast Demerara last Monday, was murdered, an autopsy yesterday confirmed.

Exam-level students returned to schools across Guyana yesterday while observing safety protocols to protect themselves from the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

As police await the results of ballistic tests to determine who inflicted the fatal wound to Kevin Batson, the Linden man who was killed after carrying out a robbery last week, his mother has said that eyewitnesses are pointing to law enforcers as being responsible.

The first of two repatriation flights scheduled for this week to bring Guyanese stranded in the United States home is expected today, Director General of the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority Egbert Field has said.

A Guyana Defence Force (GDF) bus was left overturned alongside the De Kinderen public road, on the West Coast of Demerara yesterday after the driver lost control while navigating a turn.

Revelana Smith, also known as ‘Ducky,’ was committed to stand trial last week for the attempted murder of her ex-partner’s girlfriend.

Two repeat offenders were each sentenced to four years in prison last Thursday after they were charged with a $13 million theft.

A La Parfaite Harmonie disc jockey was remanded to prison after being charged with two counts of rape at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court last Friday.

A labourer is now facing a murder charge after allegedly involving himself in a fight with a co-worker of one of his friends.

Two person have been moved to the  COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit (ICU).

Commonwealth Secretary General Patricia Scotland today welcomed the CARICOM observers report on recount of the March 2nd general elections and called for the acceptance of the  results.

In its scathing report upholding the integrity of the March 2nd general elections, the CARICOM observer team has castigated GECOM commissioners for undermining the legitimacy of the electoral body.

The Organisation of American States (OAS) today welcomed the findings of the CARICOM observer team that the recount of votes from the March 2nd      elections provides the basis for the declaration of a result and it called for the incumbent APNU+AFC to begin the process of transition.

The CARICOM observer team at the recount of votes from the March 2nd general elections says it reflects the will of the people and provides a basis for the declaration of a result.

A New and United Guyana (ANUG) yesterday accused rogue elements at Gecom of collaborating with APNU+AFC to have the March 2nd general elections annulled and it said the lawful course for Commission Chair Claudette Singh is to declare the winner of the polls.

With hundreds of Statements of Poll for District Four still to be verified, Returning Officer Clairmont Mingo mounted the second floor of the Ashmins building on March 5th and shouted out fake numbers to the horror of party agents, plunging the March 2nd elections into months of crisis which still remains to be resolved up to today.

Having completed and delivered their report to CARICOM on observations of the recount of the March 2nd General and Regional elections here, the three-member CARICOM team is today scheduled to leave for their respective home countries.

Police in Berbice are investigating a fatal accident involving a pedal cyclist and an off-duty police constable along the Number 68 Village Road, Corentyne yesterday afternoon.