Guyana News

In his latest call for democracy to be upheld here, Acting Assistant Secretary for the U.S.

The victim of the fatal accident which occurred on Tuesday night when a motorcar collided with a cow on the Good Hope Public Road, East Coast Demerara, has been identified as a taxi driver and former resident of No.

The management of the SleepIn Hotels in Guyana yesterday announced that it has taken the brand international.

In recognition of the need for persons to stay at home to reduce the spread of the coronavirus, the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) has collaborated with the Help and Shelter organization to provide a toll-free hotline number to assist victims of domestic violence and abuse.

The Head of the OAS observer mission at the March 2nd elections, Bruce Golding  yesterday expressed concern that an accurate result has not been determined six weeks on and said this was crucial to restoring Guyana’s position as an “internationally respected democracy”.

Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) have committed to reviewing a series of proposals designed to tackle the issues arising from the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis as part of their general agreement on a way forward in the Community’s battle against the pandemic.

Two men were yesterday remanded to prison while another was released on $75,000 bail after they were charged in relation to last Friday’s home invasion at Republic Park, East Bank Demerara (EBD), where a businessman and his family were robbed of over $1 million in cash and gold jewellery.

In light of the suspension of all prison visits due to the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the Guyana Prison Service yesterday announced the introduction of video calls for inmates.

The Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) has expressed confidence that rice production this year would be “excellent” despite the novel coronavirus pandemic fallout and assures that that there will be adequate supplies for local, regional, and extra-regional markets.

In another one of its initiatives to help combat the spread of COVID-19, the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) has donated a range of sanitising products to the Beacon Cancer Foundation.

The Ministry of Public Health on Tuesday handed over a $17 million river ambulance to Region 10 and five passenger boats valued at $2.6 million for several riverine communities.

The Public Procurement Commission (PPC) yesterday announced the implementation of new procedures as part of the national effort to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.

An announcement of the annual May Day rally’s cancellation is expected to be released by the end of the week, according to Seepaul Narine, General Secretary, Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU).

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Inner Wheel Club of Georgetown has cancelled its annual Hat Show and Garden Party, which was scheduled for April 18, 2020.

A young resident of `A’ Field Sophia is currently in hospital nursing a cutlass wound and his mother is calling on the Guyana Police Force (GPF) to act quickly to prevent his attackers from doing further harm to him.

With the Ocean View Hotel undergoing massive repairs to serve as a COVID-19 hospital, a member of the public says he has been told that the renovations will cost $600m.

The number of positive COVID-19 cases in Guyana has risen to 55, an increase overnight of 14.5%.

The Head of the OAS observer mission at the March 2nd elections, Bruce Golding  today expressed concern that an accurate election result has not been determined six weeks on and he said that the proposal by the Chief Election Officer for a five-month recount of votes was “unheard of in any democracy and would be unacceptable under any circumstances”.

As another statutory electoral deadline draws closer, the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has still not decided on the logistics of the proposed recount of votes cast on March 2, 2020.

Deputy Chief Medical Officer Dr Karen Gordon-Boyle yesterday said that rapid tests could be useful for screening purposes for the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) but maintained that Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) testing remains the standard for confirmation of cases.