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Police in the Cuyuni region are probing the murder of a 30-year-old gold miner who was found with multiple stab wounds to his body. The dead man has been identified as Teo Max James. He is originally from the West La Penitence area in Georgetown. The incident occurred on Monday evening at a mining camp […]
An early morning fire ripped through a building at Wismar, Linden that housed the GECOM sub-district office for the Wismar area Firemen were called to the scene of the blaze just after 1:55am and were able to contain the fire to the one building. According to the Police, a security guard who was on duty […]
The US Embassy here in Georgetown has announced that its Consular section has started phase one of its resumption of operations. According to the embassy, under Phase 1, the Consular section is offering appointments for emergency American Citizen Services and limited processing of urgent visa cases. Employees and other persons visiting the embassy must wear […]
Region One remains the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in Guyana. Of the country’s 128 active cases, Region One has 60 cases. Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Karen Gordon-Boyle today said she is still not happy with the response of Region One residents to the health guidelines especially those in the Moruca sub-district. She said […]
The Chairperson of the Guyana Elections Commission, retired Justice Claudette Singh has decided to dispose of the 10 District Declarations that were made on the 13th March and has replaced those Declarations with the Certificates of Recount. In her decision at today’s meeting of the Commission, the GECOM Chair said: “the results of March 13 […]
Even with the Guyana Elections Commissions still to make a final declaration of the 2nd March elections, the Secretary-General of the Organisation of American States is making moves to summon a meeting of the Permanent Council of the OAS on the situation in Guyana. In a brief statement on twitter, the OAS Secretary-General, Luis Almagro […]
The Chairperson of the Guyana Elections Commission has rejected the report submitted on Saturday to the Guyana Elections Commission by the Chief Election Officer and has now instructed him to submit a report in keeping with her original request. According to Commissioner Vincent Alexander, at today’s meeting of the Guyana Elections Commission, the Chairman told […]
The assault of a prisoner by prison officers at the Lusignan jail was one of the main reasons behind yesterday’s unrest by prisoners which resulted in fire being set to one of the wooden buildings at the facility. According to the Director of Prisons, Gladwin Samuels, two prisoners got into a conflict and during a […]
The Guyana Elections Commission is set to meet this morning and the #1 issue on the agenda is expected to be the submitted report of the Chief Election Officer, which has come in for widespread criticism from several quarters. The Chief Election Officer submitted his final report on the election on Saturday, one day after […]
Guyana has recorded six new cases of the coronavirus but has also recorded six new recoveries, according to the latest figures released on Sunday. The country currently has a total of 126 active cases. The total recoveries have now climbed to 154. 17 persons have lost their lives to the disease in Guyana. Although the […]
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