April 16, 2020

With the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) gearing for a national recount of votes cast on March 2, General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party Bharrat Jagdeo has warned against any attempts to tamper with the results from the…

The total number of confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in Guyana has risen to 57 as of April 16, 2020. Of these 57 cases, 42 are active cases with Guyana having recorded six deaths and nine recoveries including one…

Director of Prisons (ag) Gladwin Samuels revealed Thursday that 29-year-old prison escapee, Christopher Punch was recaptured on April 14, more than a month after he escaped from the Mazaruni prison. Punch escaped on February 29, 2020…

A 49-year-old business owner is in shock after two armed men robbed her store –Cellular Connection - on Regent Street at about 15:00hrs Thursday and instructed everyone inside the store to put on their face masks so as to be protected from…

See below Statement from former Barbados Prime Minister and Chair of the Commonwealth Electoral Observer Mission: The Commonwealth Observer Group accredited for the 2 March 2020 General and Regional Elections notes the 15 April 2020…

By Akeem Greene President of the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG), Aubrey Hutson, is viewing the shifting of the 50th edition of the CARIFTA Games to be hosted in Guyana in 2022 as a blessing in disguise. Initially, 2021 was…

Director-General of the Ministry of the Presidency Joseph Harmon on Thursday said the removal of Carl Greenidge from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was part of “cleaning the slate.” He said Greenidge received a letter from the President…

The head of the country’s elections body, Justice (rt’d) Claudette Singh, has been left to make the crucial decisions surrounding a national recount of votes cast on March 02; she will communicate her decision by email to the six…

See press release below from Guyana Bar Association: PRESS RELEASE Article 69 of the Constitution of Guyana mandates that, on dissolution, the next session of Parliament must commence no later than four (4) months from the end of the…

The COVID-19 National Task Force has decided to put on pause the distribution of food hampers by the Civil Defence Commission (CDC), according to Director-General of the Ministry of the Presidency, Joseph Harmon. Following a tour of the…