Guyana News

Responding to critics here over her position on Guyana’s elections, Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley said simply: `The truth hurts”.

Chief Election Officer Keith Lowenfield says he has executed his constitutional duties.

The governing APNU+AFC coalition today insisted that GECOM must act only on “valid” votes cast at the March 2nd general elections even though there is no basis for discarding votes which were counted on the night of the polls and during an exhaustive recount.

The Ministry of the Presidency this morning said that nineteen companies have been shortlisted for the marketing of Guyana’s oil from the Liza Destiny FPSO.

A clear act of insubordination is how one source has described the report submitted by Chief Election Officer (CEO), Keith Lowenfield to GECOM on Tuesday in which he erased over 115,000 votes from the March 2nd general elections.

Norway’s Ambassador to Guyana, Nils Martin Gunneng yesterday joined the call for the national recount of votes to be used for the declaration of the result from the controversy-laden March 2nd general elections.

The government is extending the timeline on its tax relief measures for persons and businesses affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Guyana has now recorded 215 cases of the novel coronavirus disease as six new cases were recorded yesterday.

Noting its commitment to bringing a timely conclusion to the impasse over Guyana’s March 2 elections that has been brought before it, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has designated all of next Wednesday for dealing with the matter.

Six persons were charged yesterday with breaching COVID-19 restrictions during the APNU+AFC protest march held last week.

The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) will need approximately $1 billion if it is going to keep its doors open and prepare for the second crop.

A pensioner lost his home yesterday when a two-storey Kingston building went up in flames.

By Shaquawn Gill Almost 3 months after the institution of guidelines to combat the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and nearly four months since Elections Day, vendors in Bourda Market continue to outline the hardships that they face on a daily basis by the absence of many of their usual customers.

Police have arrested a person of interest in relation to the shooting death of a Kitty construction worker which occurred just after daybreak on June 22 in Agricola.

As part of its strategy to improve its customer service and overall operations, the Guyana Tourism Authority (GTA) recently added nine newly-licensed tourist guides to its ranks.

Elroy Oral Bristol, 25, is wanted by the police in relation to possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking committed on 23rd June, 2020 at Patrick’s Dam Angoy’s Avenue, New Amsterdam, Berbice.

Counsel for PPP presidential candidate Irfaan Ali and PPP General Secretary Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday wrote GECOM Chair Claudette Singh asking her to direct Chief Election Officer Keith Lowenfield to withdraw his report to her in which the votes of over 115,000 voters were trashed and in which he purports to declare the incumbent APNU+AFC as the winner of the March 2nd general elections.

Expressing bewilderment that the Chief Election Officer Keith Lowenfield could discard over 115,000 votes, CARICOM Chair Mia Mottley yesterday emphasised that the results of the recount of the March 2nd General Elections are the valid figures and she slammed what she termed “gamesmanship” in the electoral process.

The 21 additional novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases recorded this week in Santa Rosa, Region One, have completely overwhelmed the health system in the indigenous village, leaving health authorities with no option but to erect isolation tents at a sports ground which lacks a water supply system.

Attorney General (AG) Basil Williams is contending that the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) does not have jurisdiction to hear the intended appeal of last week’s ruling by the Guyana Court of Appeal that the words “more votes cast” should be interpreted to mean “more valid votes are cast in relation to the elections held on 2nd March 2020.”