Guyana News

Although Region Nine has no active cases of the coronavirus disease and everyone who had direct contact with the region’s only confirmed case have tested negative, it is still under threat as persons continue to travel back and forth between Guyana and Brazil.

Surveyor and former Chairman of the Elections Commission, Edward Garnett Hopkinson has passed away at the age of 90.

 In keeping with its efforts to make housing affordable for Guyanese, the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) has extended its Republic Jubilee land discount promotion until June 30.

As the nation nears the conclusion of the Recount of the votes cast in the March 2nd general elections, the Private Sector Commission (PSC) yesterday called upon all the people of Guyana and each of  the contesting parties to recognize and accept the result of the Recount, agreed to by both President David Granger and General Secretary of the PPP/C Bharrat Jagdeo, as the final decision and declaration of the Guyana Elections Commission.

The COVID-19 mobile testing unit yesterday completed a three-day operation at a Diamond, East Bank Demerara location, where four persons were tested after a total of 14 were screened.

A man was yesterday remanded to prison on a simple larceny charge after being accused of stealing a gold and diamond bracelet.

The OAS Observer Mission tonight said it has no reason to doubt that the results emanating from the recount at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre will be credible.

GECOM today recounted 83 ballot boxes from the March 2nd general elections, according to Commissioner Sase Gunraj.

PPP General Secretary Bharrat Jagdeo today condemned a statement last night by APNU+AFC that the March 2nd general elections were not credible because of an alleged high incidence of fraud.

The Ministry of Education today advised that schools will reopen from Monday June 8th 2020 to teachers and auxiliary staff who shall prepare the schools according to the Public Health protocols outlined in the Gazetted and published examination order.

With 84% of the ballot boxes from the March 2nd general elections tabulated as of yesterday, the PPP/C had tallied 187,549 votes compared to 174,499 for APNU+AFC, a lead of 13,050 votes.

With a recount of the votes from the March 2nd general elections approaching the end and the PPP/C maintaining a significant lead (see other story on page 3), the incumbent APNU+AFC  last night made its strongest signal yet that it was preparing to reject the final result after making a series of claims that have been widely repulsed.

Persons wishing to fly out of Guyana may have to wait until late December or early 2021 to do so as this country will not open up to commercial air travel until it is assured that rigid COVID-19 prevention measures are in place and cases here have reduced significantly, says Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) Director (Ret’d) Colonel Egbert Field.

Canadian gold miner, Guyana Goldfields Inc (GGI)  – which runs a large-scale mine in Cuyuni/Mazaruni – is mulling acceptance of a new buyout offer from a foreign-based company.

Ivor Lynch, one of Guyana’s renowned recording artistes who rocked the local scene in the early 1970’s, died at his US home on Monday night at the age of seventy four.

For the third day in succession, no new COVID-19 case was recorded yesterday even as 27 more tests were done within the last 24 hours.

The timetable for the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA), as well as health protocols to be followed during the sitting of exams were released yesterday.

A 36-year-old Lethem resident was arrested yesterday morning after he admitted to smuggling a number of items including forty cases of rum into the country through the illegal Guyana/Brazil border crossing at Mango Grove, Lethem.

An autopsy yesterday on the remains of Sattie Beekharry, the 61-year-old businesswoman who was murdered in her Atlantic Gardens, East Coast Demerara (ECD) home earlier this week revealed that she died as a result of a brain haemorrhage due to multiple trauma to her head.

A West Bank Berbice man was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with murdering his brother last Saturday.