Guyana News

Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Chair Justice (Ret’d) Claudette Singh has indicated that she informed President David Granger that GECOM would be ready to hold General and Regional Elections by the end of February, 2020, opposition-nominated commissioner Sase Gunraj said today.

A suspected bandit was shot and killed during the wee hours of yesterday morning by the police, who were responding to reports of several armed robberies.

In the absence of general elections within three months of June 18, Guyana has fallen into constitutional desuetude. If a caretaker government was in place on June 18, what exists today is shambolic and a mere shadow of constitutional rule. The only person to be blamed for this is President Granger for refusing to abide by the clear outcome of the motion of no confidence against his government on December 21st and mounting feckless legal challenges. He has been aided in his folly by some astoundingly insensible judgments in local courts.

Danion Welcome, the driver of the truck that crushed seven-year-old Ciarra Benjamin to death three months ago on the Agricola Public Road, was granted bail when he appeared before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court yesterday.

Andre Gordon, the US-based Guyanese man who was discovered dead in his Kitty apartment on Sunday morning was strangled, an autopsy confirmed.

As global concern about the health effects of vaping grows, some Guyanese vapers have stopped using the popular electronic cigarettes while others remain unconcerned even as some stores report that sales of the product have increased in the past months.

An 85-year-old man died in a fire which engulfed his house at the Scottsburg Housing Scheme, Corr-iverton, Upper Corentyne early yesterday morning.

Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo last night called on GECOM Chair, Justice (Rtd) Claudette Singh to act in accordance with the Constitution and name an early date for general elections.

  The trial of Abishai Caesar continued yesterday with his former reputed wife giving evidence and she testified that her then husband had confessed to her that he stabbed Anna Catherina businesswoman Jennifer Persaud and her sons after Persaud woke and recognised him.

Non-management and supervisory staff of the Linden-based Bosai Minerals Group (Guyana) Inc (BMGGI)  began strike and protest action yesterday over the company’s alleged insistence on paying them a 6% wage and salary increase for 2019, instead of the at least 8% or 9% increase they are asking for.

In 2013, as a young entrepreneur, Abigail Loncke started her business which unfortunately flopped.

A jury yesterday found a 16-year-old boy guilty of rape of a child under the age of six and he is expected to be sentenced by Justice Simone Morris-Ramlall on October 3rd.

In what will be seen as a cautionary tale for this country and its impending oil wealth, the IMF 2019 staff Report on Guyana has cited pitfalls from Trinidad and Tobago and Ghana to underline what can go wrong.

The Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) is expressing its concern over the ongoing political impasse and urges Guyanese to be patient as GECOM executes its mandate to arrive at a date for elections.

The 2019 IMF Staff Report on Guyana has pointed to key weaknesses in the economy that have to be overcome including the skilled labour shortage and high energy costs.

A man, who admitted to assaulting his girlfriend on Regent Road, was jailed for three months when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court yesterday.

A man who told the court that he was joking when he snatched money from his ex-boss, secured bail equal to the amount he is accused of snatching when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court yesterday.

A taxi-driver was on Tuesday evening taken into police custody following the discovery of an unlicensed revolver in a motor car.

A bus driver accused of assaulting and threatening a policeman, among other offences, was denied bail when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court yesterday. 

A family of five was last evening displaced after a fire of unknown origin ripped through their Plaisance, East Coast Demerara house.