Guyana News

The Yvonne Jacobus Maternity Waiting Home in Annai, Region Nine  has been officially commissioned and will serve expectant mothers in the North Rupununi district, the Department of Public Information (DPI) said on Saturday.

Thousands of enumerators took to the streets yesterday as the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) began a contentious house-to-house registration exercise across the country, prompting Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo to direct his party’s supporters against participating as he announced plans to seek an injunction to stop it.

Restating that his government has accepted its “interim” status, President David Granger says that the APNU+AFC administration will not pass a budget and will conform to the “half a dozen” international conventions which govern such a period.

After several warnings, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has fined a Pomeroon coconut company $1 million for its dumping of shells and husks into tributaries of the Pomeroon River.

Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday requested the immediate resignation of the Cabinet, including President David Granger, in keeping with the constitutional provisions triggered by the passage of the no-confidence motion against government.

The Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) has urged government and the opposition to return to the National Assembly to address the constitutional implications of the passage of a motion of no-confidence against the APNU+AFC administration and to engage to establish constraints to government functioning that will be acceptable to both.

While commending the APNU+AFC administration for accepting its “caretaker status” as a result of its defeat on last December’s confidence vote, the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) yesterday urged that the constitutional requirement of elections within three months be followed in order to ensure a “fully functional” government.  

The opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP) yesterday rejected President David Granger’s insistence on his selected candidates being included on Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo’s final list of nominees for the post Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Chairperson, calling it a misinterpretation of the judgment of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ).

For Imam Baksh, it all began in the library of his Affiance, Essequibo Coast home, where he engrossed himself in countless books, told his peers stories and later began writing his own.

Around 4,000 residents of the North and Central Rupununi Districts, of Region Nine, are expected to benefit from a soon-to-be constructed bypass road, for which a $200 million contract has been signed.

A 25-year-old fisherman is dead and his brother is now hospitalised at the West Demerara Regional Hospital after they were attacked by three men on Thursday night at Zeelugt, East Bank Essequibo.

A father of four, of Met-en-Meerzorg, West Coast Demerara, died on Friday after he came into contact with live electrical wires.

Around 100 pieces of striking artwork by children and teens were on display on Friday following the conclusion of a two-week art workshop, which was held at the Carifesta Sports Complex.

President David Granger has departed Guyana for Cuba for a scheduled evaluation following treatment for cancer earlier this year.

Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo today wrote President David Granger requesting that he and his Cabinet resign forthwith in accordance with the Caribbean Court of Justice’s (CCJ) decision of June 18 in the no confidence motion case and the consequential orders of July 12.

President David Granger, this morning, departed Guyana for Cuba for a scheduled evaluation, following treatment for cancer earlier this year.

House-to-house registration, which the APNU+AFC government insists is necessary for holding credible elections but which the opposition PPP says would be in contravention of the Constitution, is set to begin today.

President David Granger has announced that he will resist any attempt to deny him input in the list of six “not unacceptable” candidates for consideration for the post of chairperson of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM).

Several hundred PPP supporters congregated on High Street between Barrack and Young streets, in Georgetown yesterday and called on the Guyana Elec-tions Commission (GECOM) to prepare for general and regional elections instead of carrying out house-to-house registration.

The People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) and the Working People’s Alliance (WPA), both members of the APNU faction of the governing coalition, have welcomed the planned commencement of house-to-house registration from today by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM).