Guyana News

A pedestrian was struck down and killed in a hit-and-run accident along Aubrey Barker Road, South Ruimveldt, Georgetown early yesterday morning.

An accident on the Supply Public Road in February has left a 12-year-old girl bed-ridden and unable to speak.

In an effort to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), health officials in Region Three have created screening stations at the region’s two main hospitals.

In an effort to support the national response to the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) is donating approximately 12,000 litres of alcohol-based sanitising cleaner to vulnerable institutions, including homes for the seniors and orphans.

In an effort to prevent and reduce the spread of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), Scotiabank Guyana has introduced a new policy which addresses social distancing.

The operators of the New Oriental Guyana Restaurant in New York have lost their liquor licence for serving patrons in violation of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s order barring eating and drinking on its premises, according to a New York Daily News report.

Restaurateurs in Queens, New York lost their liquor license for serving patrons in violation of Gov.

One day after political parties called for the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to facilitate the security of the ballots cast on March 2, 2020 by ensuring all were stored at a central location, the secretariat has relocated the containers with the ballot boxes from the Arthur Chung Convention Centre to its High and Cowan streets office.

The Bank of Guyana (BoG) has urged banks to consider the reduction of interest rates on loans and a deferral of repayments as part of measures to cushion the expected financial effects from the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on both individuals and businesses.

A US$5 million loan which Guyana has requested from the World Bank to tackle the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is currently being processed and this country is optimistic that it will get the needed monies.

Guyana has been paid US$55 million for its first cargo of crude oil sold in February and the country will receive royalties from production by ExxonMobil in its Liza-1 field on the offshore Stabroek Block next month.

In congratulating Organization of American States (OAS) Secretary General Luis Almagro on his re-election yesterday, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has cited Guyana’s electoral process as one of the challenges now facing the grouping.

Citing the absence of an ongoing electoral process, the decline in the security environment, and the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the US-based Carter Center’s election observation mission has departed Guyana.

The European Union (EU) has withdrawn its Election Observation Mission (EOM).

Representatives of the opposition PPP/C and three of the new parties that contested the March 2 general and regional elections were yesterday successful in their bid to be added as litigants in the lawsuit filed by APNU+AFC candidate Ulita Grace Moore, who has moved to halt a recount of ballots cast at the polls.

Voicing their alarm at the current “governance crisis” in Guyana due to the ongoing post-elections controversy, the Roman Catholic bishops of the Caribbean yesterday appealed for the early completion of the process to verify the result of the March 2 general and regional elections.

As he urged calm and patience, President David Granger on Friday once again lamented that the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) intervention for a total recount of votes cast at Guyana’s March 2 general and regional elections was “stymied” by a court action. 

The Maritime Administration Department (MARAD) has announced that all seaports in Guyana will be closed until further notice.

Chairman of the Giftland Group of Companies, Roy Beepat has alleged that he was told on Thursday by a police rank that any of Giftland Mall’s security cameras focusing on the Arthur Chung Convention Centre at Liliendaal was “illegal.”

The start of low cost airline JetBlue’s service here has been stalled by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) global crisis, and the airline’s nonstop service to New York will instead be launched in October.