By News Source Guyana on May 11, 2020
Elections, News, Politics
In a May 6 letter to the US Ambassador to Guyana, Foreign Affairs Minister Dr. Karen Cummings writing on behalf of the President made it clear that the Government was not budging from its position to keep the Airports closed to incoming passenger flights, thereby leaving out a Carter Center Observer and others who wanted […]
By News Source Guyana on May 11, 2020
Elections, News, Politics
With the ballots from 208 boxes already recounted as part of the national vote recount, the governing APNU+AFC coalition is alleging that the recount has unraveled “clear and unmistakable patterns of irregularities”. In a Sunday night statement, the APNU+AFC said the recount has found “countless instances of dead persons being recorded as voting exclusively in […]
By News Source Guyana on May 10, 2020
Crime, News
An argument over a phone that was reportedly stolen has left a Friendship, East Bank Demerara man dead and his assailant on the run. A police report this evening revealed that 33-year-old Marlon Peters of Goblin Dam, Friendship got into an argument with a 27-year-old man from the same area over a phone that went […]
By News Source Guyana on May 10, 2020
News, Politics
The number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus in Guyana continues to climb even as other Caribbean countries are seeing no new cases and low cases prompting a reopening of their countries. In its release today, the Public Health Ministry revealed that the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Guyana jumped by seven overnight, taking […]
By News Source Guyana on May 9, 2020
News, Politics
US Congressman and Chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries has expressed worry and concern over what he considers the US government’s “foreign interference in the affairs of an independent nation in Guyana”. Mr. Jeffries made the fiery comment during an online interview with President of the Caribbean Guyana Institute for Democracy, Rickford […]
By News Source Guyana on May 9, 2020
Caribbean & International, News
The European Commission has announced that three Caribbean countries, Barbados, Jamaica and The Bahamas, have been added to its latest blacklist of countries that are considered high risk with strategic deficiencies in their regime against money laundering and countering terrorist financing. While the three CARICOM states became the latest to be added to the blacklist, […]
By News Source Guyana on May 8, 2020
News, Politics
With a total of 49 new COVID-19 tests completed in the past 24hrs, there is only one new case of the coronavirus in Guyana. It was also revealed today that Guyana has conducted a total of 785 coronavirus tests, with 692 of those tests turning up as negative. During the daily update, Chief Medical Officer, […]
By News Source Guyana on May 8, 2020
News, Politics
The Cuban Government has advised scholarship students in Cuba that they should not leave the island at this time as there is no guarantee that they’ll be able to return to the island to continue their programmes once they leave. Some Guyanese students have been expressing a desire to return home because of coronavirus concerns. […]
By News Source Guyana on May 8, 2020
News, Politics
Guyanese medical students studying in Cuba are set to receive care packages from the Department of Public Service as part of the government’s assistance for citizens affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The packages containing food supplies and sanitary items were packed on Thursday afternoon at the Public Service Department and flown out to Cuba this […]
By News Source Guyana on May 7, 2020
Elections, News, Politics
APNU+AFC Executive and Party agent for the recount, Joe Harmon wants the People’s Progressive Party to state publicly that it will accept the declared results of the vote recount. During a recorded interview on the APNU+AFC’s official Facebook page today, Mr. Harmon said the coalition is fully behind the recount process and he believes it […]