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Two repatriation flights from Trinidad and Barbados yesterday brought home over 300 Guyanese nationals who were stranded abroad after borders were closed by governments to curb travel during the still-ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Two men were yesterday remanded to prison after they were charged with the murder of construction worker Andy Williams, whose partially decomposed body was discovered floating in a trench at Met-en-meerzorg, West Coast Demerara (WCD) two weeks ago.
A post-mortem examination done on the body of the Tain Settlement pensioner Chandradarie Budhu has revealed that she was strangled and struck to the head by her attackers.
Guyanese Priest, Father (Fr) John Persaud, was on Friday appointed as the Bishop of Mande-ville, Jamaica.
Following a request by security agencies, a temporary ban has been placed on the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones, over Georgetown and a section of the East Bank of Demerara.
An Xpress Delivery Service delivery man was held at gunpoint and robbed of his motorcycle and other valuables at Congress Drive, South Ruimveldt Park yesterday morning.
The police are seeking the public’s assistance in locating a man, who is wanted for questioning in relation to larceny by public officer.
The payment of old age pensions for July will begin on Monday, June 29, 2020 at all post offices countrywide, the Ministry of Social Protection announced yesterday.
Although the incumbent APNU+AFC coalition has publicly maintained that the elections were not credible, its Prime Ministerial candidate Khemraj Ramjattan on Wednesday told members of his staff that he is prepared to accept the results of the national recount of votes cast at the March 2nd polls which show a victory for the opposition PPP/C.
Several persons lost their home following a fire that gutted a Prashad Nagar, Georgetown home yesterday afternoon.
AFC executive and former Minister of Business in the APNU+AFC government, Dominic Gaskin tonight said that there was no reasonable basis on which the governing coalition can claim to have won more votes than the PPP/C in the March 2nd elections and he said claims of fraud have been “grossly exaggerated”.
The Justice For All Party (JFAP), a component of the incumbent APNU+AFC coalition today called for the swearing in of PPP/C presidential candidate Irfaan Ali.
The Ministry of Education (M0E) says that a total of eleven teachers of the Moruca sub-district, Region One have tested positive for the Coronavirus as of noon today.
The Court of Appeal will sit tomorrow at 11 am to hear submissions on the application filed to prevent the Chief Election Officer (CEO) Keith Lowenfield from submitting a report to enable a final declaration from the March 2 polls.
The Guyana Court of Appeal is currently sitting to consider how to proceed on an application filed yesterday to prevent the Chief Election Officer (CEO) Keith Lowenfield from submitting a report to enable a final declaration from the March 2 polls.
Chief Election Officer (CEO) Keith Lowenfield yesterday failed to submit the report of the valid votes cast in the March 2 General and Regional Elections (GRE) in direct contravention of a directive from Chairperson Justice Claudette Singh.
The Court of Appeal application filed yesterday to prevent the Chief Election Officer (CEO) from submitting a report to enable a final declaration from the March 2 polls is contending that the Guyana Elections Com-mission (GECOM) deviated from the order that guided the national vote recount and failed to determine “final credible” results.
According to the general secretary of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), Bharrat Jagdeo today’s hearing at the Court of Appeal is the last episode in the APNU+AFC Coalition’s quest to disenfranchise Guyanese voters.
The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has refuted allegations of improper and secretive disposal of documents from its Camp Street, Georgetown headquarters and insists that whatever was observed was normal and above board.
The Ministry of Education (MoE) last night said that six teachers of Santa Rosa Primary School, Moruca, Region One have tested positive for the Coronavirus and have all been placed in institutional isolation.
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