Guyana News

In a video broadcast on its Facebook page yesterday, the governing APNU+AFC coalition yesterday maintained it had won the March 2nd elections even while stating that there was major fraud, prompting a sharp riposte from the opposition PPP. 

A 30-year-old minibus conductor was yesterday found dead after going missing on Sunday when he was swimming with friends at the Unity foreshore, East Coast Demerara (ECD).

The woman who died on Sunday night after she was struck down by a motor car as she attempted to cross the Chateau Margot, East Coast Demerara Public Road has been identified as a mother of three.

A team from the Civil Defence Commission (CDC), yesterday  travelled to Gunns/Masekenari Village in the Konashen District, Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo (Region Nine) to conduct a disaster risk assessment and it handed over 60 food hampers to the Toshao,  Paul Chekema.

A Berbice Lance Corporal has been placed under close arrest after he was accused of selling a boat engine which he seized from a Corentyne resident a while ago.

The Ministry of the Presidency (MoTP) has defended the security escort availed to President David Granger saying that it is determined by the Special Protective Service In a statement on Saturday, MoTP was responding to a letter by Kit Nascimento in that day’s edition of the Guyana Times.

A woman  was yesterday taken into quarantine from the New Amsterdam Market after it was reported that she was exhibiting symptoms of COVID-19.

A juvenile was on Friday remanded to prison after he was charged with the murder of security guard Margaret Dawson, whose battered body was found in Le Repentir Cemetery two Mondays ago.

Junior France, the licensed firearm holder who allegedly shot and killed a 17-year-old miner two Sundays ago at Puruni Landing, Mazaruni River has been charged with murder and remanded to prison.

A miner, who was arrested on Sunday night after the police unearthed a quantity of narcotics in the ceiling of his house, was yesterday released on a sum of $175,000 bail after he was charged.

A 42-year-old labourer was yesterday placed on $75,000 bail after he denied having in his possession a quantity of narcotics on Sunday night.

GECOM Commissioner Sase Gunraj this evening said that 82 ballot boxes were recounted today from the March 2nd general elections.

An 11th death as a result of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) was disclosed today and the Department of Public Information identified the victim as fifty-nine-year-old Vincent Torres of the Moruca Sub Region in Barima-Waini.

The Transitional Management Committee (TMC) of the University of Guyana today said that UG is not demanding tuition fees from students at this time.

ExxonMobil’s flaring of over nine billion  cubic feet of natural gas could have been avoided had a proposed  gas-to-shore pipeline project been implemented but it was stalled because a plan to determine the best location was rejected by government officials as some wanted to handpick a site, former Petroleum Advisor Jan Mangal says.

Shocking video of doctors kicking down the door of a room of a COVID-19 patient at the Isolation Unit at the Diamond Hospital was made public yesterday with patients expressing frustration that despite concerns continually being raised, the authorities continue to pay little heed and take minimal action.

With six counting days left in its original 25-day schedule, GECOM has recounted only 48% of the ballot boxes from the March 2nd general elections prompting deepening concerns about what it will do to expedite the process.

Eight more persons have tested positive for COVID-19, the Ministry of Public Health revealed yesterday.

Two women died over the weekend after being involved in vehicular accidents on the West Coast of Demerara and East Coast of Demerara.

Law enforcement officers on the Corentyne yesterday apprehended a murder suspect who had been on the run for almost four years.