Guyana News

Commentator Kit Nascimento today condemned a request by APNU+AFC to have cell phones and cameras banned from the recount of votes from March 2 general elections.

The sugar union GAWU today mourned the passing of former PPP/C Minister of Home Affairs Feroze Mohamed.

Digicel today said that more than 2,000 medical professionals engaged on the COVID-19 frontlines have received free 4G data bundles for three months.

With another admonition from CARICOM Chairperson Mia Mottley that a legitimate government depends on a transparent recount of votes from the March 2nd general elections, a three-member scrutineer team from the Community touched down here yesterday for a second attempt at resolving the country’s electoral crisis and a long-awaited start date for the process is expected to be set today.

While Chairperson of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) retired Justice Claudette Singh has so far maintained that the recount of the votes from the March 2nd polls will not be live streamed, at least two of the contesting political parties plan to ask her today to reconsider.

A West Ruimveldt, Georgetown mother is now dead after she was accidentally shot by a neighbourhood resident, who was firing wildly at a man he had a row with over a stolen bike early yesterday morning.

De facto Public Health Minister Volda Lawrence yesterday said that Guyana has recorded a 110% increase in the number of COVID-19 cases in just under a month as she criticised citizens for not taking the pandemic seriously.

Guyana’s Natural Resource Fund (NRF) on Tuesday received a deposit of US$4.9 million, representing this country’s first royalty payment from offshore oil production.

Neville France, the youth who police say broke into the home of Canal Number One, West Bank Demerara resident Tameshwarie Sonilal and stabbed her to death on Sunday night, was charged with the crime and remanded to prison on Thursday.

A senior police officer is one of two persons who were left hospitalised on Thursday after a collision along the Johanna Cecelia Public Road, on the Essequibo Coast.

Following a request to the National COVID-19 Task Force (NCTF), lawyers have been classified as essential workers.

Young Guyanese singer and songwriter Juke Ross yesterday released his newest song, “Atlanta,” in which he addresses the dislocation caused by his move from his homeland.

De facto Minister of Public Health Volda Lawrence today lamented the cavalier approach to COVID-19 citing the 110% increase in cases in less than a month despite various measures to contain the spread of the virus.

CARICOM Chair, Barbadian Prime Minister Mia Mottley today called on all concerned to ensure a transparent recount process without further delay in order to provide legitimacy to any government which would be sworn in as a result of the March 2nd general elections.

A pyrotechnics explosion at the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Base Camp Stephenson, at Timehri, East Bank Demerara, killed three soldiers yesterday and left two others nursing injuries.

The measures which have been implemented to curb community spread of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) have been extended for one month, according to an order in the Official Gazette.

COVID-19 has claimed the life of another elderly man in Guyana, bringing the death toll as a result of the virus to nine.

The High Level Team of scrutineers promised by CARICOM for the recount of the ballots from the March 2 general elections is scheduled to arrive in Guyana this afternoon.

The Government of Guyana has signalled its intention to compulsorily acquire the property on which the Ocean View International Hotel is located for the construction of a National Sanatorium. 

A 32-year-old security guard died on Wednesday evening after colliding with a utility pole on the Unity Public Road on the East Coast of Demerara.