Guyana News

Giftland Mall has started preparations for its reopening after weeks of being closed following the COVID-19 lockdown.

As current Chief of Staff of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Patrick West prepares for leave ahead of his retirement next March, the choice for his replacement will be chosen by the elected president of the March 2nd general and regional elections who will also be Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces.

The Small Business Bureau (SBB) has begun disbursing grants to small businesses to help see them through the difficult times brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Once approval is given, the MovieTowne Guyana mall will be reopened in phases.

Citing overcrowding at schools and the severe financial pressures of implementing changes to make them safer, the Region Ten Regional Health and Emergency Committee (RHEC) is asking the Education Ministry to further delay the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA).

More than a month since a reckless driver crashed into his yard at Bagotstown, East Bank Demerara, owner Faizul Razack is yet to have repairs done to his fence and shed as promised.

Investigators are in the process of tracing Andy Williams’ last movements before his death, Regional Commander Assistant Commissioner Simon McBean said.

PARAMARIBO, (Reuters) – Surinamese President Desi Bouterse, a former military ruler who has dominated the country’s politics in recent decades, lost last month’s national election, the country’s electoral authority said today  after three weeks verifying the vote.

Chief Election Officer Keith Lowenfield was this afternoon directed to prepare the final report for the March 2nd general elections using the data from the recount of votes.

1600 customers of GTT’s Blaze service are currently experiencing an internet outage, Public Relations Officer at the company Jasmine Harris said today.

The Carter Center today commended the Guyana Elections Commission on the completion of the recount process and welcomed the CARICOM observer report, which indicates that despite minor flaws in the process, the recount results are acceptable and provide the basis for a declaration of results from the March 2 election.

In a blistering report the three-person scrutinizing team from CARICOM declared that the National Recount of votes and by extension the March 2, 2020 general and regional elections were sufficiently transparent to reflect the will of the Guyanese people and form the basis for the declaration of the results.

Having declared that CARICOM was the most “important interlocutor” on Guyana’s elections, caretaker President David Granger will now have to say where he stands on the report of its observer team which stated yesterday that the recount of the March 2nd elections provides a basis for the long-awaited declaration of a result.

Tyrone Rowe called ‘Cobra’ was yesterday released from prison after completing his sentence for the 2010 killing of Troy Collymore, who he shot after a robbery at a Plaisance, East Coast Demerara, pharmacy.

During the National Recount the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) allowed itself to be manipulated by the two larger political parties and violated the rights of the Guyanese electorate.

Andy Williams, the construction worker whose partially decomposed body was discovered floating in a trench at Meten-Meer-Zorg, West Coast Demerara last Monday, was murdered, an autopsy yesterday confirmed.

Exam-level students returned to schools across Guyana yesterday while observing safety protocols to protect themselves from the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

As police await the results of ballistic tests to determine who inflicted the fatal wound to Kevin Batson, the Linden man who was killed after carrying out a robbery last week, his mother has said that eyewitnesses are pointing to law enforcers as being responsible.

The first of two repatriation flights scheduled for this week to bring Guyanese stranded in the United States home is expected today, Director General of the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority Egbert Field has said.

A Guyana Defence Force (GDF) bus was left overturned alongside the De Kinderen public road, on the West Coast of Demerara yesterday after the driver lost control while navigating a turn.