Junior Sinclair, one of the new faces in the Guyana Amazon Warriors squad for this season of the Hero Caribbean Premier League, has gotten some tangible support from V-Net Communications in the form of a brand new bat. Through its Chief Executive Officer, Safraz Sheriffudeen, one of the leading satellite telecommunication companies in Guyana made…
Veteran politician and former General Secretary of the governing People’s Progressive Party, Clement Rohee took the oath of office this morning as a new PPP-nominated Commissioner of the Guyana Elections Commission, taking up the seat left by Bibi Shadick who passed away on Saturday. Mr. Rohee took the oath of office before President Irfaan Ali…
With the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) concluding its continuous registration process and heading to its claims and objections exercise, Local Government Elections (LGE) is expected to be held by year-end. Assurances were given on Tuesday by Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Justice (Ret’d) Claudette Singh who said that the commission is looking at…
The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) today announced that it will commence a Claims and Objections exercise from next Monday to produce an Official List of Electors (OLE) ahead of Local Government polls. The exercise will be conducted at all the GECOM permanent Registration Offices in the ten (10) Administrative Regions. During the Claims and Objections…
Amid worry over pesticide residue in rice, Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha says the product is monitored by food seevral bodies locally to ensure safety standards are met. The concerns over the safety of exported rice were raised after an analysis by the European Union (EU) was conducted in 2020. Among the findings was that several…
Opposition Leader Aubrey today promised to intervene if there are attempts to stymie or influence the investigations into claims made by CID rank Dion Bascom against senior members of the Guyana Police Force. Bascom has alleged that a major Police cover-up might have hampered the investigations into the murder of popular biker, Ricardo Fagundes aka…
Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Hugh Hilton Todd on Monday engaged in a teleconference with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Dmytro Kuleba. During the exchange, a statement from Guyana’s Foreign Ministry noted that, the Ukrainian Foreign Minister thanked President Irfaan Ali and the People of Guyana for standing in solidarity with…
Unhappy with the ruling by Chief Justice Roxane George on the President’s unilateral appointment of Clifton Hicken as Acting Police Commissioner, the Opposition has filed an appeal in the matter. Last week, the Chief Justice ruled that in the absence of a Leader of the Opposition and a Police Service Commission being in place at…
FOR a while, there have been complaints from citizens about the increasing costs for vegetables at the markets, but market prices for ‘greens’ appear to be returning to more affordable costs. The Guyana Chronicle visited the Bourda Market and spoke with vendors who confirmed the decrease in prices of some items. For these vendors, prices…
A total of 91 persons tested positive for COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, the Ministry of Health reported in its daily COVID-19 dashboard on Monday. The new cases take the total number of infections recorded in Guyana since March 2020 to 70,561. The new cases were recorded in Region One (one case), Region Two…
