Guyana News

The Civil Defence Commission (CDC)  is inviting supermarkets and shops to submit Expressions of Interest to supply items under the COVID-19 Pandemic Assistance Vouchers programme.

Following a meeting with Police Commissioner Leslie James, People’s Progressive Party (PPP) executive Anil Nandlall has submitted racist statements and threats made by various persons on Facebook for an investigation and action.

Another two cases of the Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) were recorded yesterday bringing the total number of positive cases to 158.

A 2017 prison escapee has been captured in Suriname. Paul Goriah, one of thirteen prisoners to escape from the Lusignan prison in July 2017, was last Thursday captured by Surinamese police along with two other Guyanese men as they were suspected of attempted robbery.

Two days after filing an appeal before the Full Court challenging what she called errors in a judgment granting former murder accused Marcus Bisram his freedom, Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Shalimar Ali-Hack yesterday withdrew the case from that court.

Saying that sufficient evidence was not available at the time a contempt suit was initiated against Region Four Returning Officer (RO) Clairmont Mingo, attorney Anil Nandlall yesterday got approval to discontinue the proceedings but not before Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire reprimanded him for wasting the court’s time.

The `Shivo Auto Body Workshop’ at 107 Lusignan was completely razed just after 8 am yesterday by a fire of unknown origin.

Nurses attached to the Lethem Regional Hospital are asking for health authorities to intervene as they say they are constantly being verbally abused by the spouse of a medical official.

The Government Analyst-Food and Drug Department (GA-FDD) yesterday advised the public against the importation, distribution, sale and use of a “deceptive, misleading and foreign labelled brand of sweetened condensed milk”  traded as “Nouveau !

While affirming a decision of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) to raise tariffs on “other hydraulic cement” imported into Barbados, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on Wednesday declared that both CARICOM and Barbados failed in their respective duties to conduct prior consultation with the affected importer—Rock Hard Cement Limited.

A planned Black Lives Matter march, which was scheduled to be held in Georgetown yesterday, was postponed after it failed to receive approval from the Guyana Police Force.

Although the police have recently moved to enforce the COVID-19 restrictions on the operations of non-essential businesses, a number of city stores are continuing to operate but with a number of adjustments.

The contempt proceedings filed against District Four Returning Officer (RO) Clairmont Mingo was earlier this morning terminated after attorney Anil Nandlall filed a notice of application to withdraw and discontinue.

St. Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves has said that the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) expects that the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) will honour the results of the national vote recount from Guyana’s March 2 polls and use them to declare a winner.

A bodywork shop and at least one other building in Lusignan were this morning completely destroyed by fire.

Following discussions with President David Granger yesterday about the state of the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo), the Ministry of Finance (MoF) last evening said that it could not assist the Corporation with a financial bailout as it did not have the funds to do so.

PPP/C presidential candidate Irfaan Ali yesterday said he had gotten assurances from Police Commissioner Leslie James that state assets will be protected in the transition between governments and that any unrest in the aftermath of the declaration of results from the March 2nd general elections will be addressed.

A 22-year-old man was shot and killed yesterday afternoon by a licensed firearm holder at One Mile, Wismar, Linden.

As he signalled a role for himself in the next government, former two-term President and PPP General Secretary Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday said that the constitution provides that PPP/C presidential candidate Irfaan Ali should be declared the winner based on votes gained.

Addressing concerns about its volume of natural gas flared to date, ExxonMobil yesterday assured that it was working fervently to fix problems with its compressor equipment offshore and said that the lessons learned will be applied to its next Floating Production Storage and Offloading vessel, as well as future projects.