Guyana News

In light of the suspension of all prison visits due to the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the Guyana Prison Service yesterday announced the introduction of video calls for inmates.

The Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) has expressed confidence that rice production this year would be “excellent” despite the novel coronavirus pandemic fallout and assures that that there will be adequate supplies for local, regional, and extra-regional markets.

In another one of its initiatives to help combat the spread of COVID-19, the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) has donated a range of sanitising products to the Beacon Cancer Foundation.

The Ministry of Public Health on Tuesday handed over a $17 million river ambulance to Region 10 and five passenger boats valued at $2.6 million for several riverine communities.

The Public Procurement Commission (PPC) yesterday announced the implementation of new procedures as part of the national effort to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.

An announcement of the annual May Day rally’s cancellation is expected to be released by the end of the week, according to Seepaul Narine, General Secretary, Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU).

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Inner Wheel Club of Georgetown has cancelled its annual Hat Show and Garden Party, which was scheduled for April 18, 2020.

A young resident of `A’ Field Sophia is currently in hospital nursing a cutlass wound and his mother is calling on the Guyana Police Force (GPF) to act quickly to prevent his attackers from doing further harm to him.

With the Ocean View Hotel undergoing massive repairs to serve as a COVID-19 hospital, a member of the public says he has been told that the renovations will cost $600m.

The number of positive COVID-19 cases in Guyana has risen to 55, an increase overnight of 14.5%.

The Head of the OAS observer mission at the March 2nd elections, Bruce Golding  today expressed concern that an accurate election result has not been determined six weeks on and he said that the proposal by the Chief Election Officer for a five-month recount of votes was “unheard of in any democracy and would be unacceptable under any circumstances”.

As another statutory electoral deadline draws closer, the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has still not decided on the logistics of the proposed recount of votes cast on March 2, 2020.

Deputy Chief Medical Officer Dr Karen Gordon-Boyle yesterday said that rapid tests could be useful for screening purposes for the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) but maintained that Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) testing remains the standard for confirmation of cases.

There continues to be a clear and concerted effort to overturn the democratic will of the people as expressed on March 2nd.

A Region One woman is in Police custody following the death of her common law husband allegedly at her hands.

One man is reported dead and another injured after the vehicle in which they were travelling collided with a cow in the vicinity of Lusignan last evening.

A Courtland, Albion, Corentyne man was yesterday at the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court remanded to prison after he was charged with two counts of attempted murder committed on his girlfriend and her daughter, on Wednesday last.

The police in Region 10 are on the hunt for a lone gunman after Monday night’s execution-style killing of clothes vendor Glenroy Chapman, who was gunned down at his Linden home.

Well-known Guyanese doctor Ramesh Sugrim is presently hospitalised in a critical condition at a hospital in the United States of America after he tested positive for the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). 

A week after sugar-producing operations were halted at two Berbice estates, some workers have resumed their duties while others are expected to return to work today.