Guyana News

The Ministry of Education is still to release the dates for the upcoming National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA).

A 61-year-old businesswoman was this afternoon murdered in her Atlantic Gardens, East Coast Demerara house and the police have since arrested a suspect.

GECOM Commissioner Sase Gunraj says that 97 ballot boxes have been recounted today.

CARICOM’s elections observation mission today said that up to this point in time  Suriname has successfully staged a free, fair, transparent, and credible election.

GECOM Chair Claudette Singh today expressed concern over a `fake’  letter purporting to withdraw correspondence to the Police Commissioner on May 22 seeking assistance in investigating complaints made by APNU+AFC about voting on March 2nd.

Opposition parties yesterday sharply criticised GECOM Chair Claudette Singh for writing the Chief Immigration Officer (CIO) on May 22nd on allegations made by APNU+AFC about illicit voting at the March 2nd general elections, a task they said was beyond her remit and full with sinister implications.

As day 26 of the National Recount ended yesterday, a record 100 ballot boxes were recounted but the incumbent APNU+AFC continues to not sign certificates for completed districts citing irregularities.

A twenty-three-old miner was fatally beaten at Princeville, Mahdia on Friday after he tried to help a girl who had been in altercation with a woman.

A Berbice businessman is now counting his losses after his wood-work shop located in Caracas was complete-ly destroyed by a fire of unknown origin. 

Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited on Saturday said that processing of some of its Visa international debit card transactions for the period since February 2020 are still to be done.

As it approaches two months since the implementation of the countrywide lockdown and a restriction on non-essential services enacted on April 3, residents of Canal Number Two, West Bank Demerara are worried about what they will be having for their next meal while others are anxious about how long their meagre savings will last.

Hundreds of New York-based Guyanese, many of whom are undocumented, are facing a serious financial crisis after losing their jobs due to the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and are relying heavily on the distribution of food packages from various groups for their survival.

The Guyana Tourism Authority (GTA)  yesterday said it has developed three business support documents for the country’s tourism sector which aim to minimise negative impacts on the environment, people and economy. 

Police in Berbice on Saturday arrested a man, 27, from Adelphi Village, East Canje with 27 grams of suspected cocaine.

GECOM’s 12 workstations today recounted a record 100 ballot boxes from the March 2nd general elections, according to Commissioner, Sase Gunraj.

Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Justice Ret’d Claudette Singh wrote Police Commissioner Leslie James on May 22nd asking for information on the allegations made by APNU+AFC that people who were not in country on March 2nd were ticked off on polling stations lists as having voted.

Despite the ongoing recount by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) determining that it won Region Seven at the March 2 polls, the incumbent APNU+AFC coalition has refused to sign the certification as it claims that the voting district is one in which “massive voter fraud” was perpetrated.

Despite evidence to the contrary, the incumbent APNU+AFC is maintaining its claim that votes cast by members of the Disciplined Services were rejected after polling day staff failed to correctly stamp their ballots.

John Allan Daymon, the 78-year-old Palms Geriatric Home resident who became Guyana’s twelfth latest novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) casualty yesterday, had told his family months before that he wanted to return home.