Guyana News

In what marks a major shift of its position on the March 2nd general elections, the APNU+AFC coalition yesterday alleged that  “clear and unmistakable patterns of irregularities, discrepancies and worse have emerged” following day five of the national recount of votes.

The number of persons with COVID-19 surged by seven overnight to 104.

With no major hiccups, ballots from a total of 51 boxes were recounted yesterday on day five of the  national recount from the March 2 General and Regional Elections.

An 11-year-old girl remains in quarantine for COVID-19 after several positive tests but her family is hoping she could be discharged soon.

A quarrel over a cellular phone on Saturday night resulted in a thirty-three-year-old man of Friendship, East Bank Demerara being stabbed to death and police have launched a search for the suspect.

With the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) placing New York (NY) hospitals under severe stress, Guyanese siblings, Dr.

The United States has reiterated that it has no interest in any political party here and just wants a government which is elected credibly and reflects the will of this country’s citizenry, Director of the Office of Caribbean Affairs at the US State Department, Katherine Dueholm says.

With the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus forcing schools to close, online teaching poses challenges for both public and private institutions. 

Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Keith Rowley said that his country’s Chief Elections Officer did not return to be a part of the CARICOM scrutineer team for Guyana’s General and Regional Elections recount because of local court accusations that the CARICOM team had originally been there illegally.

German’s Soup is moving its Brooklyn, New York store to a bigger and more convenient location in mid-June 2020.

The number of persons with COVID-19 surged by seven overnight to 104, the Ministry of Public Health disclosed today.

GECOM commissioners at a meeting this afternoon decided to identify ballot boxes with smaller numbers of votes to be recounted later in the afternoon to maximise the time available at the 10 counting stations.

Government’s billion-dollar expenditure on the decrepit Ocean View Hotel to construct a COVID-19 hospital has attracted the scrutiny of Auditor General Deodat Sharma and a local transparency group even as the current owner Jacob Rambarran maintains silence on the terms of the controversial deal.

The votes from another 48 ballot boxes were tallied yesterday when the national recount entered its fourth day, bringing the grand total for the process to 156 of the 2,339 boxes generated from the March 2 general and regional polls.

The Carter Center can return to Guyana to observe the national recount of votes if it requests permission through the right channels and complies with the measures in place to prevent the spread of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), according to government spokesman Joseph Harmon.

Guyanese stranded abroad are continuing to plead with the National COVID-19 Task Force (NCTF) to grant approval for their return home.

After testing positive for the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) more than 40 days ago, Neaz Subhan remains in isolation, where he has been waging a quiet battle against despair, while hoping to use what he is learning in order to help others.

“They treating us like total garbage.” These are the words of a 39-year-old Block 22, Wismar Linden resident, who says she and other members of her family are being discriminated against by the Region Ten community after what she believes was a case of mistaken identity led to a relative being quarantined for two weeks on suspicion that she had the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

A leading United States-based manufacturer of offshore drilling and production equipment has planned to construct a state-of-the-art tubular fabrication, maintenance and storage facility in Georgetown, although the start of the project has been delayed by current COVID-19 restrictions.

Three additional positive cases of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) have been recorded by the Public Health Ministry, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in Guyana to 97.