By News Source Guyana on July 30, 2020
Elections, News, Politics
APNU+AFC Executive Joe Harmon has expressed his disappointment with the Court of Appeal’s decision to dismiss an appeal by private citizen Misenga Jones, which upholds the Chief Justice’s ruling that the votes from the recount should be used to compile the final report of the Chief Election Officer. “While I did not expect much out […]
By News Source Guyana on July 30, 2020
News, Politics
By a unanimous decision, all three Judges of the Appeal Court this afternoon dismissed the appeal filed by private citizen, Misenga Jones. The Georgetown resident wanted the Court to reverse a High Court ruling that paved the way for the vote recount to be used for the compilation of the GECOM final report on the […]
By News Source Guyana on July 29, 2020
News, Politics
The Guyana Civil Aviation is still to make a final decision on a complete reopening of the country’s two international airports, but officials close to the National COVID-19 Task Force have indicated that it is unlikely that the airports will be reopened before the end of August. Guyana’s two international airports have been closed to […]
By News Source Guyana on July 29, 2020
News, Politics
Prison authorities this afternoon arrested a Berbice woman after she attempted to smuggle small packets of marijuana into the New Amsterdam prison in tennis rolls. 29-year-old Hemwattie Charandeo was arrested and handed over to the Police and will likely face drug trafficking charges. She was held while delivering items for a relative who is behind […]
By News Source Guyana on July 29, 2020
Crime, News
Almost two years after being committed to stand a High Court trial for the brutal murder of his reputed wife, former GDF Captain Orwain Sandy has opted to plead guilty to the lesser Count of manslaughter. Sandy appeared before Justice Sandil Kissoon in a virtual hearing and the Court was informed of his decision to […]
By News Source Guyana on July 29, 2020
Elections, News, Politics
Two citizens have filed private criminal charges against the Chairperson of the Guyana Elections Commission, retired Justice, Claudette Singh. The two persons, Keith Ondaan of Linden and Onita Walcott of Victoria are all accusing Justice Singh of malfeasance in public office contrary to the common law. Although the charges are the same, they are related […]
By News Source Guyana on July 28, 2020
News, Politics
The National Hydromet Office has issued a flood advisory as there is expected to be heavy rainfall during the course of the night. The Flood advisory is for Regions 4, 5, 6 and 10. According to the weather forecast for the night, rainfall will intensify and there will be mostly moderate to heavy with a […]
By News Source Guyana on July 28, 2020
News, Politics
Guyana recorded 7 new cases of coronavirus today with six of those cases coming from Arau in Region Seven and the other case from here in Georgetown. In the past four days, 44 new COVID-19 cases were recorded with the majority of those cases in the interior regions. Today, Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Shamdeo Persaud […]
By News Source Guyana on July 28, 2020
News, Politics
In the first seven months of this year, the Trafficking in Persons Unit of the Social Protection Ministry identified 43 victims of human trafficking in Guyana. All of those persons were non-nationals. In a statement today, the Trafficking-in-persons unit explained that it received a total of 22 cases of suspected trafficking and 8 of those […]
By News Source Guyana on July 28, 2020
News, Politics
Communities across Region Nine have been warned by the Regional Health Officials that they are all at a high risk of seeing more cases of coronavirus. As of Monday, Region Nine had recorded a total of 41 cases of coronavirus with 36 of those cases still active. The region recorded its first COVID-19 case back […]