Guyana News

A West Canje, Berbice man was arrested yesterday after he was caught tossing a bag into the New Amsterdam Prison which contained cannabis and other prohibited items.

The driver of the minibus that was involved in a collision that resulted in the death of a La Parfaite Harmonie resident Lovern Benn last month has been discharged from the West Demerara Regional Hospital (WDRH) and is now bedridden at home.

A New Amsterdam man was on Monday sentenced to three years’ imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to the charge of cultivating a prohibited substance in the Upper Berbice River area. 

A 49-year-old coconut vendor died on Sunday after falling from a coconut tree at Friendship, on the East Coast of Demerara (ECD).

Eighty-four ballot boxes were recounted today according to GECOM Commissioner Sase Gunraj.

Former Commissioner General of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GEA) Khurshid Sattaur passed away today having battled illness over the past year.

The Rupununi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RCCI) today called on the National COVID-19 Task Force (NCTF) to ensure that the Guyana Brazil border remains closed at least for the next three  months or until such time as it is safe to reopen to regular traffic.

CARICOM today expressed condolences on the passing of Guyanese international civil servant Miles Stoby.

In an independence day message to Guyana, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo yesterday called on the Guyana Government to respect the wishes of voters as expressed on March 2nd 2020.

As Guyana registered its 11th death from COVID-19 yesterday, six more residents of the Palms Geriatric Home have tested positive  and patients have begun occupying the still under-construction sanatorium at the Ocean View Hotel after a shocking incident on Saturday at the Diamond isolation facility where doctors attempted to kick down a door.

Day 21 of the national recount concluded yesterday with a total of 82 ballot boxes being recounted and as the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) falls farther behind its 25-day schedule two more work stations could be added today.

Some Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited customers are once again speaking out about the deduction of significant sums of money from their accounts and unsatisfactory explanations from the bank.

In a video broadcast on its Facebook page yesterday, the governing APNU+AFC coalition yesterday maintained it had won the March 2nd elections even while stating that there was major fraud, prompting a sharp riposte from the opposition PPP. 

A 30-year-old minibus conductor was yesterday found dead after going missing on Sunday when he was swimming with friends at the Unity foreshore, East Coast Demerara (ECD).

The woman who died on Sunday night after she was struck down by a motor car as she attempted to cross the Chateau Margot, East Coast Demerara Public Road has been identified as a mother of three.

A team from the Civil Defence Commission (CDC), yesterday  travelled to Gunns/Masekenari Village in the Konashen District, Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo (Region Nine) to conduct a disaster risk assessment and it handed over 60 food hampers to the Toshao,  Paul Chekema.

A Berbice Lance Corporal has been placed under close arrest after he was accused of selling a boat engine which he seized from a Corentyne resident a while ago.

The Ministry of the Presidency (MoTP) has defended the security escort availed to President David Granger saying that it is determined by the Special Protective Service In a statement on Saturday, MoTP was responding to a letter by Kit Nascimento in that day’s edition of the Guyana Times.

A woman  was yesterday taken into quarantine from the New Amsterdam Market after it was reported that she was exhibiting symptoms of COVID-19.

A juvenile was on Friday remanded to prison after he was charged with the murder of security guard Margaret Dawson, whose battered body was found in Le Repentir Cemetery two Mondays ago.