Guyana News

Residents in Little India and Little Africa, Corriverton in Region Six were among those who received COVID-19 relief hampers from the Civil Defence Commission (CDC) yesterday, according to the Department of Public Information (DPI).

Regional Commander of Region 6, East Berbice-Corentyne, Calvin Brutus is warning against the hosting of any event at the Number 63 Beach over the Easter weekend.

Washington Post reporter Darran Simon, who is of Guyanese parentage and lived here as a child, was found dead in his Washington DC apartment yesterday, according to a memo sent by one the newspaper’s top editors.

The number of persons here with the COVID-19 virus rose to 40 today.

Ranks of the Guyana Police Force acting on information received yesterday went to a farm located  at Katuru Village, South Central Rupununi where they conducted a search of a camp owned by a foreign national and found three unlicensed shotguns.

Yesterday, between 03:30h and 15:45h ranks of the Guyana Police Force under the command of a Gazetted Officer  conducted a drug eradication operation in the Berbice River during which four fields of cannabis cultivation were found.

Weeks after criticisms that it was not doing enough testing for the COVID-19 virus, the government is preparing to expand the number of tests done following expert advice.

After an uproar over the proposed 156 days for a recount of ballots from the March 2nd general elections, the opposition-nominated members of the Guyana Elections Com-mission (GECOM) yesterday presented for discussion a counter proposal which would reduce the number of days for the process to 10.

Former Minister of Foreign Affairs Carl Greenidge who gave up his British citizenship following the Caribbean Court of Justice’s ruling on dual citizenship and who President David Granger created a Foreign Secretary post for is no longer with the ministry after “receiving a letter” over a month ago, sources close to him say.

The Ministry of Public Infrastructure has engaged its sister ministry, Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) to begin a contact tracing exercise pertaining to several of its workers, who would have come into contact with veteran engineer, Colonel John Percy Leon Lewis.

A number of persons who were once in institutional quarantine are now cleared to go home as a meeting was held to discuss the use of various medications to treat persons with COVID-19.

Managing Director of Unicomer Guyana Clyde De Haas yesterday said that there are no current plans to cut the salaries of Courts’ employees during the current scale down of operations as a result of the measures taken in response to the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

Major construction work is currently underway at the former Ocean View International Hotel, which was scouted as one of the locations to be set up to house COVID-19 patients.

The main suspect who was recently nabbed for the murder of Rose Hall grocer, Lomenzo Johnny, was yesterday charged with the offence at the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court. 

Approximately six weeks after investigators were able to identify a suspect in the murder of Cuban butcher, Ofredis Duarte Campos, he has been apprehended by police.

The Private Sector Com-mission (PSC) is doubling down on its position that a vote recount confined to District 4 is sufficient and to include the other nine Districts is unnecessary and unreasonably prolongs the declaration of the elections results from the March 2nd polls.

Courts Guyana yesterday donated a bus to support the efforts of the Ministry of Public Health’s COVID-19 Rapid Response Team.

Two suspects were recently arrested in connection with the fatal stabbing of a Timehri father of one.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A US$4.28 million court award to Fly Jamaica Limited for breach of contract against ADS Global Limited, the company that operated the airline’s call centre from 2012 to 2014, has been put on hold pending an appeal.

A detailed proposal consisting of the design and an engineer’s estimate for emergency works on the eroding Content, Mahaicony sea defence has been submitted to the Ministry of Finance, as the subject ministry seeks financing to execute the project.