Guyana News

Barbados Ambassador Noel Lynch yesterday told the Permanent Council of the OAS that irregularities in the March 2nd general elections occurred in the count of votes and not in the system and he vowed that CARICOM will see the ongoing recount through to a credible conclusion as it will not abide the erosion of democracy in the community.

Several indigenous communities in Region Nine will be on complete lockdown allowing only persons transporting food supplies to enter and leave their communities after contact tracing revealed that the region’s first coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patient visited a number of communities in the North and South Rupununi.

Devon Beckles, the owner of Bolo and Sons Enterprise, blames the Guyana Fire Service for not containing the fire which gutted his store and another building in Bartica on Monday night.

Canadian-based gold producer, Guyana Goldfields Inc says it’s no longer considering the buy-out offer of fellow Canada-based gold producer, Gran Colombia Gold Corp.

Forty-one persons have now recovered from COVID-19 in Guyana even as no new positive cases of the disease were recorded yesterday.

Four additional persons from the Palms Geriatric Home have tested positive for the virus which now brings the total number of infected at the institution to five.

The Ministry of Communities has reported that a fire occurred  at the Lusignan landfill site on the East Coast Demerara yesterday.

The COVID-19 three-day testing and screening activity by the Ministry of Public Health, was deemed a success, as feedback indicated that persons were showing concern by coming out to be screened.

The Iwokrama International Centre, custodian of 371,000 hectares of Guyana’s rainforest, is alarmed at the spate of illegal activities in its forest.

The Guyana Fire Service (GFS) was last evening called to the Arthur Chung Conference Centre (ACCC) at Liliendaal where the national vote recount is being conducted following reports of a “burning smell” at the location.

Speaking on behalf of CARICOM, Barbados’ Ambassador to the  OAS Noel Lynch today declared that CARICOM takes its scrutineering role in the recount of votes from the March 2nd elections seriously and that every vote must count.

Saying that he had never before seen such a transparent attempt to alter the result of an election, the Head of the OAS observer mission to the March 2 polls here, Bruce Golding today told the OAS Permanent Council that the recount has shown clear examples of the inflation of APNU+AFC figures by the District Four Returning Officer  and a reduction of numbers for the opposition PPP/C.

Seven of Guyana’s ten administrative regions have now recorded positive cases of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

A man who tested positive in Lethem for the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) was yesterday caught in Brazil after he escaped from an isolation facility and crossed the border, raising concerns about the dangers of continued illegal travelling between the two countries despite the closure of the Guyana/Brazil border.

Yesterday, the National Recount completed its seventh day by processing 48 ballot boxes taking the one-week total to 311 or 13% of the 2,339 boxes generated on polling day.

A fire gutted two buildings, including one that housed five families, opposite the Bartica Police Station on Monday night and an investigation is currently underway into its origins.

Following a review of the recount process, the Guyana Elections Com-mission (GECOM) yesterday decided to approach the National COVID-19 Task Force (NCTF) for advice on increasing both the number of work stations and the working hours for the National Recount.

A fire, suspected to be the result of arson, has destroyed a building that housed a library and an ICT hub in the Bush Lot Community Centre Ground, Region Five.

An 18-year-old motorcyclist is now dead and his pillion rider has been hospitalised after they collided with a minibus along the Goed Fortuin, West Bank Demerara (WBD) Public Road on Saturday morning.

The eleven-year-old girl who had been quarantined for a total of fifty-seven days was yesterday discharged from a holding facility following two negative COVID-19 tests in a row.