By News Source Guyana on May 22, 2020
News, Politics
With seven of the recorded coronavirus cases in Guyana coming from the Region Seven area, the Public Health Ministry is concerned about the possible spread of the disease in the mining community. No new cases of the coronavirus were recorded over the past 24 hours but in today’s health report, Dr. Ertensia Hamilton of the […]
By News Source Guyana on May 22, 2020
News
Executive Member and Candidate of the APNU+AFC, Aubrey Norton has indicated that the issues being uncovered during the vote recount are no longer pointing to anomalies but rather to electoral fraud and rigging. At an afternoon press conference outside the Arthur Chung Convention Center, Mr. Norton said while focus has been on issues related to […]
By News Source Guyana on May 22, 2020
News
At a special meeting of the COVID-19 Task Force today, approval was granted for 300 Guyanese nationals who are stranded abroad to be allowed to return home under strict guidelines in keeping with the Coronavirus health emergency measures. In a statement, the Task Force said the approval was granted within the controlled re-entry policy for […]
By News Source Guyana on May 21, 2020
News, Politics
The Coordinator of the Men’s Health Unit at the Ministry of Public Health has joined in the calls for men to practice safer health practices and guard themselves against the coronavirus. 71 of the 127 confirmed cases of the coronavirus in Guyana are men and eight of the 10 deaths from the virus are also […]
By News Source Guyana on May 21, 2020
News, Politics
While Guyana has recorded 10 new recoveries from the coronavirus in the past 24hrs, taking the total number of recoveries to 57, the country has also recorded two new cases. The two new cases are from Region One and Region Seven and Health officials are worried about that development. Region One now has two confirmed […]
By News Source Guyana on May 21, 2020
Crime, News
The Guyana Police Force has been advised to proceed with filing murder charge against a teenager who was arrested for the murder of 68-year-old security guard, Margaret Dawson. Dawson’s battered body was found in Le Repentir cemetery sprawled on a tomb on Monday morning. She was last seen alive on Sunday night when she left […]
By News Source Guyana on May 21, 2020
Elections, News, Politics
The Atlanta based, Carter Center today expressed its deep “disappointment” over the Guyana Government’s decision not to approve its recent requests to allow two observers to return to Guyana to observe the ongoing vote recount. In a statement, the Carter Center said the Elections Commission has consistently confirmed that the accreditation for The Carter Center […]
By News Source Guyana on May 21, 2020
Elections, News, Politics
A perturbed Chairperson of the Guyana Elections Commission, Justice Claudette Singh, this afternoon made it clear that she has never authorized Commissioner Sase Gunraj to speak on her behalf. The statement by the Chair came in response to a report in today’s Kaieteur News which quoted Mr. Gunraj as saying that the Chairperson of the […]
By News Source Guyana on May 21, 2020
News, Politics
The Private Sector Commission is once again urging President David Granger to allow the return of the Carter Center to join in the observing of the ongoing national vote recount. In a statement, the PSC said the President should accept the presence of the Carter Center along with all of the other International Observer Missions […]
By News Source Guyana on May 20, 2020
News, Politics
Eight uniformed guards from the Presidential Guard Unit were recently tested positive for the Coronavirus and have been in quarantine, according to the Guyana Police Force. These are not new cases and are included in the total number of cases in Guyana. In a brief statement, the Police Force explained that random tests were done […]