By News Source Guyana on May 11, 2020
News, Politics
The Hydromet Office has issued a flood warning for those areas that are flood-prone. The warning will remain in place for the rest of the night and early into Tuesday. Rainfall accumulation is expected to be between 10.0 mm and 40.0 mm into this evening. The Pomeroon-Supenaam areas in Region 2 and the Essequibo Islands-West […]
By News Source Guyana on May 11, 2020
Elections, News, Politics
With the number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus in Guyana climbing by five over the past 24hrs, the Public Health Ministry is issuing a new warning about the disease and pleading with Guyanese to follow the safety guidelines. Public Health Minister, Volda Lawrence today said a disaster could be approaching if citizens do not […]
By News Source Guyana on May 11, 2020
Elections, News, Politics
The Observation Report detailing objections and other issues noted during the recount of the votes is important in meeting the objective of the recount. That position was made clear today by the Chairperson of the Guyana Elections Commission, Retired Justice Claudette Singh during a meeting with representatives from the new parties that contested the elections. […]
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, […]