Guyana News

The main suspect who was recently nabbed for the murder of Rose Hall grocer, Lomenzo Johnny, was yesterday charged with the offence at the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court. 

Approximately six weeks after investigators were able to identify a suspect in the murder of Cuban butcher, Ofredis Duarte Campos, he has been apprehended by police.

The Private Sector Com-mission (PSC) is doubling down on its position that a vote recount confined to District 4 is sufficient and to include the other nine Districts is unnecessary and unreasonably prolongs the declaration of the elections results from the March 2nd polls.

Courts Guyana yesterday donated a bus to support the efforts of the Ministry of Public Health’s COVID-19 Rapid Response Team.

Two suspects were recently arrested in connection with the fatal stabbing of a Timehri father of one.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A US$4.28 million court award to Fly Jamaica Limited for breach of contract against ADS Global Limited, the company that operated the airline’s call centre from 2012 to 2014, has been put on hold pending an appeal.

A detailed proposal consisting of the design and an engineer’s estimate for emergency works on the eroding Content, Mahaicony sea defence has been submitted to the Ministry of Finance, as the subject ministry seeks financing to execute the project.

The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) has  condemned the actions of public transportation operators, who since the outbreak of COVID-19 in Guyana, have been discriminating against healthcare workers.

The Port Mourant land surveyor,  Mahendra Mangru, who was picked up in an unconscious state in front of his property on Tuesday, died as a result of a fractured spine due to a blunt trauma, a post-mortem examination revealed yesterday. 

Works on the Sheriff Street/Mandela Avenue project are still ongoing and are being executed under the precautionary protocols mandated to arrest the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) according to Minister of Public Infrastructure David Patterson.

MANAUS,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s Amazonas state warned today that its health system has been overwhelmed by the coronavirus epidemic, with all intensive care beds and ventilators already taken as a result of the outbreak.

The Government Analyst-Food and Drug Department (GA-FDD) has issued an immediate recall of the Purcill brand of hand sanitizer from local shops and stores.

Chief Election Officer Keith Lowenfield yesterday proposed a 156-day-long recount of ballots from the disputed March 2 general and regional elections, which the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) defended even as most of the contesting parties dubbed it unacceptable.

The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has claimed another life in Guyana, bringing the death toll to six while the number of confirmed positive cases has risen to 37.

Merely 12 days after his 80-year-old wife reportedly died of pneumonia, Colonel John Percy Leon Lewis, popularly known as ‘Uncle John,’ passed away on Tuesday night after he began displaying severe symptoms of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

Veteran trade unionist and long-time PPP executive Komal Chand died yesterday morning in Cuba where he had gone for treatment.

The Ministry of Finance yesterday said it wished to categorically state that the salaries of public servants, and pensions, are guaranteed for the rest of the year.

It should not be forgotten that the reason why the March 2nd elections results have not yet been declared is that on March 4th senior officials of GECOM began a treacherous campaign to steal the election from the people by bastardizing, then aborting the count for District Four.

A 46-year-old miner was allegedly shot and killed on Saturday afternoon by a police constable after he attempted to rob a group of men including the rank at Stevedore Housing Scheme, South Ruimveldt, Georgetown.

The main suspect in the murder of Rose Hall, Corentyne grocer Lomenzo Johnny, who was killed at the end of February, was arrested in Georgetown yesterday, a senior police source con-firmed.