Guyana News

On the heels of Opposition Leader Joseph Harmon condemning the selection of Vishnu Persaud as its next Chief Election Officer as a political decision, opposition coalition partner the Alliance For Change (AFC) on Saturday said that any appointment would have been criticised by either side of the divide.

At the Hague Backdam, on the West Coast of Demerara yesterday, a distressed large-scale provision farmer, Chunilall Hansraj, was using a tractor pump in a desperate bid to get water out of his crop. 

A construction worker is now dead after he fell from a scaffold while working at a Montrose, East Coast Demerara property yesterday.

Guyanese writer Grace Nichols has been awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry for the year 2021.

President Irfaan Ali, yesterday commissioned the Sheet Anchor Water Treatment Plant, which will supply purified water to 4,182 households between Good Bananen Land, East Canje, and Number 35 Village, Corentyne, Berbice. 

Civil society group Article 13 has issued a call for the government and opposition to commence the process of restoring the guardrails and institutional framework designed to prevent corruption.

With equality being the theme of this year’s Human Rights Day, British High Commissioner to Guyana on Friday said that there is still much work to be done in Guyana on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) rights.

An almost 50% decrease in COVID-19 deaths were reported for the month of November 2021 as compared to October 2021.

The Ministry of Health has confirmed that an unvaccinated Region Six woman is the latest COVID-19 fatality.

The Ram and McRae Chartered Accountants and Professional Services firm last Tuesday disbursed a total of $1.5 million to six charitable organisations for the Christmas season.

Former People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) Chairman Basil Williams has pulled out of the race to be leader of the party.

Former PNCR Chairman Basil Williams has  pulled out of the contest for leadership of the party scheduled for its delegates’ conference on December 18.

After more than three hours of deliberation, the Guyana Elections Com-mission (GECOM) on Friday selected Vishnu Persaud to be the new Chief Election Officer (CEO), bringing an end to the more than three-month-long process to fill the post.

Opposition Leader Joseph Harmon yesterday blasted the selection of Vishnu Persaud as new Chief Election Officer and accused Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Chairperson Justice (ret’d) Cluadette Singh of partisanship by endorsing his candidacy.

ExxonMobil Guyana President Alistair Routledge on Thursday said the company’s current cache of offshore projects and those in the pipeline represent approximately US$30 billion in direct foreign investment in the country and that it will generate billions more.

With “above normal rainfall” forecast over the next few weeks, Minister of Agriculture Zulfikar Mustapha has advised the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) to monitor drainage operations in Georgetown, which was flooded in several sections yesterday.

The body of a 23-year-old man was recovered on Thursday, almost a full two days after his boat capsized in the Mahaicony River during a test drive.

President Irfaan Ali on Friday said his government is fully committed to strengthening the foundations and pillars of democracy to ensure the will of the electorate is upheld in free, fair, and transparent elections, and that the independence of the judiciary is maintained.

Guyana yesterday signalled its commitment to continue working alongside the United Nations and other countries in the region to better the lives of citizens.

Two Berbice men, both unvaccinated, are Guyana’s latest COVID-19 fatalities. In a statement, the Ministry of Health confirmed the deaths, which have taken the country’s death toll from the virus to 1,016.