Opposition Leader Joe Harmon issued a call today for the Auditor General to get up and get busy by investigating the Government’s Coronavirus cash grant relief and its distribution. Mr. Harmon’s call come in wake of widespread complaints from all across the country of hundreds of citizens not getting the cash relief. In some communities,…

–Myers performing duties until further notice CHARIPERSON of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Justice (ret’d) Claudette Singh has sent the Chief Elections Officer (CEO), Keith Lowenfield, on his accumulated annual leave, pending investigations into alleged electoral fraud, and the completion of proceedings in Guyana’s courts. There have been mounting calls for Lowenfield and other officials…

A 46-year-old security guard was on Monday remanded to prison for the murder of 53-year-old Marilyn Singh, known as “Jean”, whose naked body was found in her Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara (ECD) bedroom on December 11. Ravindra Ramdeen of Eighth Street, Cummings Lodge, appeared before Magistrate Alisha George at the Sparedaam Magistrate’s Courts and…

An attempt by the Attorney General for the Court to discontinue hearing the case challenging the deportation of 26 Haitian nationals failed today as the Chief Justice said the matter remains an important one. The Attorney General told the Court that the 26 Haitians were released from custody and are no longer in Guyana. He…

– GECOM Chair says Commission cannot make changes hastily; the law must run its course By Navendra Seoraj PUBLIC confidence in individuals attached to the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) was reportedly eroded by the events which occurred during a five-month impasse, following polling day on March 2, 2020, and, while there have been mounting calls…

Guyana on Saturday recorded 20 new cases of COVID-19 from 162 tests, taking the total number of confirmed cases to 6, 125. Eight new cases were recorded in Region Four, five new cases in Region Nine and four new cases in Region 10.  Regions One, Seven and Eight recorded one case each. Regions Two, Three…

The Coronavirus death toll in Guyana reached 159 following the death of a 53-year-old Region Three woman yesterday. Eight deaths have been recorded for this month so far. In the latest figures released by the Ministry of Health, the country has recorded 34 new cases of the virus with almost half of those cases coming…

— to hear case on Guyana, Venezuela border controversy THE International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Friday ruled that it has jurisdiction to hear the Guyana, Venezuela border controversy case. The judgement was delivered by President of the ICJ, Judge Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf, at a public sitting at the Peace Palace in the Hague, Netherland,…

Guyana on Saturday recorded 29 new cases of COVID-19 from 330 tests, taking the total number of confirmed cases to 6, 105. Fourteen new cases were recorded in Region Four, seven new cases in Region Three and Five new cases in Region One.  Regions Seven, Ten and Five recorded one case each. Regions Two, Six…

Two days after an Argentine Forensic Expert indicated his willingness to assist local investigators with their probe of the murder of three teenage boys in Berbice, the government is still to make any move on the offer and today, the President said he will await advice from the Police. The September murders on the West…