Guyana News

The WPA has renewed its call for a government of national unity that guarantees Guyana’s major ethnic groups protection against domination by the other.

The driver allegedly involved in last Saturday’s hit and run along the Letter Kenny Public Road which left motorcyclist, Shawn Smith, dead, was on Tuesday released on $300,000 bail when he appeared at the Springlands Magistrate’s Court. 

Three men were yesterday granted a total of $300,000 bail after they denied breaking and entering ANSA McAl Trading Limited last Friday.

President David Granger tonight announced Guyana’s first case and death from the new coronavirus pandemic – a 52-year-old woman who had travelled here from New York and died at the Georgetown Public Hospital today.

Acting Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire today ruled that there had been substantial non-compliance by the Returning Officer for Region Four Clairmont Mingo in his purported declaration of of results for Region Four and the results are therefore null and void and vacated.

A fifty-two-year-old woman, who recent travelled from Queens, New York, died this morning at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC) and the authorities  say that samples are being tested to determine whether this could have been a case of the coronavirus.

Barbadian Prime Minister Mia Mottley, who is also Chairperson of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is leading the delegation of regional Prime Ministers on a special two-day mission to Guyana.

Transparency Institute Guyana Inc (TIGI) which was one of the local observers at the March 2 general elections  today said that GECOM has a duty and owes it to the people of Guyana to verify the results of the elections before announcing a winner.

A delegation of Caribbean Community (CARICOM) heads led by Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley is due to arrive here today for a two-day visit intended to ease tensions in the country following last week’s disputed polls and to help broker a resolution to the political impasse.

At 2 this afternoon, acting Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire will deliver her ruling on the suit seeking full verification of the vote count for Region Four at last Monday’s general and regional elections.

Fugitive Guyanese businessman Ghalee Khan yesterday morning appeared before a judge in the United States and was remanded to prison on drug charges dating back over ten years.

Mohan Sookdeo who had stabbed his son Satesh to death at Foulis with a louvre pane after he intervened in an altercation between his parents, was yesterday morning sentenced to 20 years behind bars by Justice Sandil Kissoon.

Dennis Marks, who was on trial for the 2016 murder of Police Sergeant Leonard La Rose, will spend the remainder of his life behind bars after a jury returned a unanimous verdict of guilty after hours of deliberation yesterday.

Several international observer groups plan to stay in Guyana until elections results are declared.

President David Granger will not be able to escape accountability for the events post the March 2 general and regional elections, the PPP says. 

Shareef Bacchus who had killed fellow fisherman, Chinese national Chan Wen Wong back in 2017 was yesterday sentenced to 18 years behind bars after pleading guilty to the lesser offence of manslaughter.

PPP/C candidate Gail Teixeira on Sunday labelled government’s claim that it expelled Russians from Guyana  on the belief that they were here to interfere in the electoral process at the behest of the opposition as “ludicrous and comical,” while saying that Guyana is descending into a police state.

Days after being caught, the man accused of fatally beating gold miner Roland Kanhai during a robbery was yesterday arraigned on a murder charge.

Marine traffic has been halted after a 45-year-old man lost control of his vehicle and ran off the Demerara Harbour Bridge resulting in damage to the bridge’s hydraulic cabin.

The police are seeking the assistance of the public to locate a 25-year-old man who is wanted in connection with the murder of Buxton labourer, Daniel Akeem Amore.