May 20, 2020

At the end of Wednesday, the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) completed the recounting of 789 ballot boxes so far. Of the total, 732 Statements of Recount were tabulated for General Election and 736 for Regional Election. Wednesday…

The Guyana Police Force has confirmed that eight ranks of the Presidential Guard Unit were tested positive with the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) and are recovering. In a short statement on Wednesday evening, Police Public…

The representative of the APNU+AFC on Wednesday afternoon refused to sign the District Two certificate after all the ballot boxes were recounted and tabulated simply because the certificate registers the number of “valid votes.” The…

As of May 20, 2020 Guyana recorded no new cases of COVID-19. The number of confirmed cases remains at 125 with 10 deaths. To date the total number of persons tested is 1295 with the total number of negative cases being 1170. They are…

The Government has now given approval for a commercial flight to take Americans out of Guyana to Miami on Friday. The approval comes three days after the government denied this request by the United States Embassy in Guyana. “Permission…

ExxonMobil Guyana President Rod Henson will be leaving Guyana in the coming months to take up a new position as Vice President, Wells, for ExxonMobil in Houston, with responsibility for all drilling activities around the world. Henson,…

One day after it added two new counting stations with the aim of increasing the pace of the recount, the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) was Wednesday considering further increasing the number of counting stations. The Commission was…

A 57-year-old labourer was killed on Wednesday after a speeding taxi struck him off his pedal cycle at Princetown Public Road, Corentyne Berbice. Dead is Marsha Adiana called “Dutchie” of Skeldon Corentyne.  Police Headquarters reported…

The country’s Chief Elections Officer, Keith Lowenfield, has defended the promotion of IT staff Enrique Livan to perform the duties of a supervisor at one of the recount stations for District Four despite questions over his involvement in…

Police have arrested a 51-year-old driver/salesman of John Street, Georgetown after a parcel of 284 grams of suspected cannabis was found in his vehicle. The vehicle was intercepted Tuesday about 08:00hrs at Perth Village, Mahaicony,…