Guyana News

The Guyana Tourism Authority (GTA)  yesterday said it has developed three business support documents for the country’s tourism sector which aim to minimise negative impacts on the environment, people and economy. 

Police in Berbice on Saturday arrested a man, 27, from Adelphi Village, East Canje with 27 grams of suspected cocaine.

GECOM’s 12 workstations today recounted a record 100 ballot boxes from the March 2nd general elections, according to Commissioner, Sase Gunraj.

Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Justice Ret’d Claudette Singh wrote Police Commissioner Leslie James on May 22nd asking for information on the allegations made by APNU+AFC that people who were not in country on March 2nd were ticked off on polling stations lists as having voted.

Despite the ongoing recount by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) determining that it won Region Seven at the March 2 polls, the incumbent APNU+AFC coalition has refused to sign the certification as it claims that the voting district is one in which “massive voter fraud” was perpetrated.

Despite evidence to the contrary, the incumbent APNU+AFC is maintaining its claim that votes cast by members of the Disciplined Services were rejected after polling day staff failed to correctly stamp their ballots.

John Allan Daymon, the 78-year-old Palms Geriatric Home resident who became Guyana’s twelfth latest novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) casualty yesterday, had told his family months before that he wanted to return home.

With nine active cases of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Santa Rosa, in Region One, the community’s health care system is struggling to meet the needs of the patients despite it being the largest and most developed indigenous community.

A West Coast Berbice man is now in police custody for the alleged murder of his brother after a booze-fuelled squabble over a plot of land owned by their father ended yesterday in a fatal stabbing. 

Flaring offshore at ExxonMobil’s Liza-1 well has been  reduced significantly from some 80 million cubic feet (cf) of natural gas per day to nearly 2 million cf but glitches in the reinjection process have continued and it rose to about 14 million cf per day as COVID-19 restrictions delayed staff from rectifying the issue, Head of the Environmental Protection Agency Dr Vincent Adams says.

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National COVID-19 Task Force Joseph Harmon has announced that while an extension of the current emergency measures in place to stem the spread of the virus is being considered, a complete lockdown of the country is not.

The Public Health Ministry yesterday confirmed two new positive COVID-19 cases, bringing  the country’s total to 152.

When it began its Plant Project last month, the Miss Earth Guyana organisation planned to distribute 100 kits in regions Four and Five in order to get persons to save money by starting their own kitchen gardens.

The body of a 38-year-old sailor was recovered yesterday morning after he reportedly fell overboard in an accident at the wharf at St Mary’s Quarry, which is operated by Toolsie Persaud Limited on the left bank of the Essequibo River.

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) has said it has donated sanitising agents to several non-governmental organisations (NGOs) across Guyana during the current month as part of its “Pinktober” initiative.

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has announced that public hearings on whether it has the jurisdiction to adjudicate Guyana’s border controversy with Venezuela is to begin on June 30, at the Peace Palace in The Hague.

Following repeated encounters with the police, two persons were last week charged with breaching the national curfew implemented by the Public Health Ministry to avoid the spread of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

Owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, the annual Timehri Film Festival (TFF) will be hosted virtually this year, beginning from June 4th.

An East Canje woman was arrested on Friday after police raided her brother’s Upper Berbice River home, where she handed over an unlicensed pistol.