Guyana News

European Union (EU) spokesperson for foreign affairs, Nabila Massrali today said the recent ruling by the CCJ paves the way for GECOM to issue a declaration of the result from the March 2nd general elections using the figures from the recount.

Clinging to power despite a recount result which showed that it lost the March 2nd general elections,  the incumbent APNU+AFC today said “Any attempt to include fraudulent votes in a ‘Declaration’ will constitute a violation of the Constitution and the fundamental principles of democracy.

-Golding says Guyana failed litmus test of orderly transition After declaring that Guyana is being held hostage, Secretary General (SG) of the Organisation of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro has appealed to the incumbent to desist from further use of the court system to delay a declaration of the results of the March 2 polls.

The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) is currently unable to pay workers their wages and salaries this month as it is still awaiting a disbursement of $750 million from government’s holding company, the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL), a source close to the corporation has said.

The lawyers for Misenga Jones have formally asked the Court of Appeal to set aside the decision of acting Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire upholding the validity of the national recount of votes from the March 2 polls.

In an appearance before the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS), Guyana’s representatives yesterday repudiated the CARICOM report on the national recount and erroneously declared that the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) had vitiated the process.

Deputy Chief Medical Officer Dr. Karen Gordon-Boyle yesterday said that that a person is almost ten times more likely to get infected with COVID-19 in Region One than in Region Four, which illustrates the worrying situation in the hinterland region.

Well-known contractor Kissoondatt Premsukh, who was gunned down at a construction site at D’Urban Street last Thursday, sustained multiple gunshot wounds to various parts of his body, an autopsy has confirmed.

Detective Constable Richard Persaud, who was accused by two staffers of a Superbet shop in East Canje, Berbice, of taking over $100,000 to assist them in settling a court matter last August, was yesterday remanded to prison after finally appearing in court.

Since the emergency lockdown measures were implemented in the Moruca sub-district, the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak seems to be stabilising in the area although many persons are not taking advantage of a mobile testing unit, Amerindian People’s Association (APA) Project Coordinator Graham Atkinson has said.

As the number of COVID-19 cases continue to rise, business owners in Georgetown, particularly those along Water Street, over the past four months, are facing multiple daily challenges including a decline in sales as they struggle to stay afloat.

The United Nations International Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Guyana, yesterday donated 1,944 face shields to the Ministry of Education (MoE) to assist in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Writer Ruel Johnson was yesterday released on station bail after he was questioned by the police about a rape allegation levelled against him.

Region Seven’s Regional Health Emergency Committee (RHEC) is now looking into having a COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the Bartica Regional Hospital along with the preparation of a COVID-19 centre.

Tyron Inniss, the motorcyclist involved in the recent fatal accident at Dundee, Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara, that left his cousin dead, has been charged with riding without a licence and a breach of insurance.

Following the Cummings Lodge apartment complex fire, which claimed the life of her brother and his family, one of the victims is still awaiting word from police on their investigation of the cause.

Investigators at the Guyana Fire Service (GFS) have concluded that the fires which gutted three public buildings including the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) office in Linden early last week were deliberately set, Fire Chief Marlon Gentle said.

Members of the Organisation of the American States (OAS) this afternoon called for the David Granger administration to allow a peaceful transition of power in Guyana even as government representatives maintained that the process is still to be completed and the declaration by the GECOM Chair will be recognised once it is in accordance with the law.

The Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) holds a virtual special meeting, today “to consider the state of the electoral process in Guyana”, at the request of the Secretary General, Luis Almagro.

Welcoming yesterday’s decision by Chief Justice (ag) Roxane George-Wiltshire, the Private Sector Commission today called on the GECOM Chair Claudette Singh to move towards the declaration of the result based on the recount of the votes and to the swearing in of the new President.