Guyana News

Statement by GECOM Chair Claudette SinghI am perturbed by an article published online via websites and social media platforms as well as in the today’s edition of the Kaieteur News under the caption, “Justice Singh doesn’t think it’s GECOM’s role to probe claims of anomalies – Commissioner Sase Gunraj.”

The Carter Center today expressed disappointment at not being able to return and observe the recount of votes at Guyana’s March 2nd general elections.

Canadian-owned Guyana Goldfields Inc (GGI) on Tuesday terminated the services of over 160 employees and plans to continue to reduce its approximately 530-member workforce over the next few days as it prepares for a takeover by Canadian silver miner Silvercorp.

A total of 71 ballot boxes were recounted yesterday at the conclusion of day 15 of the national recount and as GECOM seeks to further accelerate the process, Chairperson, Justice (Ret’d) Claudette Singh intends to ask the national COVID-19 task force for two more work stations.

An investigation has been launched after a 25-year-old mother died after delivering her baby at the Fyrish Health Centre on Saturday evening.

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) has offered a compensation package to the widow of Ryan Khayum, the Pomeroon River farmer, who died in a boat accident involving a GDF coastguard vessel to cover her losses following the crash, a relative told Stabroek News.

Twenty-six more persons were tested for COVID-19 yesterday and of that number, no new case of the virus was recorded.

Two families are now counting their losses after a storm swatted their houses at Number 36 Village, Corentyne destroying their roofs and other sections. 

Eight members from the uniformed branch of the Presidential Guard Unit (PGU) recently tested positive for the coronavirus.

A Corentyne pedal cyclist died after he was struck by a hire car along the Princetown Public Road, Upper Corentyne yesterday.

A teenager who was shot on March 6th with pellets by a police rank during the Bush Lot Village protest over the elections result is still awaiting surgery. 

Police have arrested a third suspect in connection with the murder of security guard Margaret Dawson, whose battered body was found in Le Repentir Cemetery on Monday morning.

The nursing supervisory department at the West Demerara Regional Hospital (WDRH) has confirmed that the hospital is indeed experiencing intermittent water shortages after a complaint was made to this newspaper.

A father of four was yesterday ordered by Magistrate Sunil Scarce to do community service for breaching the national COVID-19 curfew.

The application for a relief flight to repatriate citizens of the United States who are marooned here due to COVID-19 travel restrictions is still being looked at, Director General of the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) Egbert Field clarified on Tuesday.

As result of the presence of Covid-19 in Guyana, the Presidential Guard Unit in conformity with the guidelines given by the Ministry of Public Health conducted random testing on ranks within the department. 

ExxonMobil Guyana President Rod Henson will be leaving Guyana in the coming months to take up a new post as Vice President, Wells, for ExxonMobil in Houston, with responsibility for all drilling activities around the world.

After adding two workstations, the Guyana Elections Commission was yesterday able to raise its daily total for recounted ballot boxes to 76.

According to PPP General Secretary Bharrat Jagdeo there must be a political motive behind a decision by President David Granger to prevent the Carter Center and the International Republican Institute (IRI) from returning to Guyana to observe the recount of votes from the March 2nd general elections.

An M4 rifle and a Tech 9 pistol with an ammunition magazine allegedly destined for Guyana were recently seized at the Miami International Air-port as was more than six pounds of marijuana secreted in cereal boxes, cans of crackers and an iced tea container.