Last Updated on Friday, 8 May 2020, 14:28 by Denis Chabrol At least 103 families on Friday got COVID-19 relief packages under the auspices of the local government authority, with the support of businesses, at Parika and nearby East Bank Essequibo communities. The seven villages where the beneficiaries live are Parika, Hyde Park, Grove, Lookout, Naamryck, Salem and Mora- all ...

Last Updated on Friday, 8 May 2020, 12:27 by Denis Chabrol The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) has disputed claims of electoral fraud at a polling station at Yarrowkabra, Linden-Soesdyke Highway, showing that the Statement of Recount is matching the Statement of Poll. PPP Executive Member, Attorney-at-Law Anil Nandlall scotched rumours by the incumbent coalition that the recount had, now in ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 7 May 2020, 16:18 by Denis Chabrol General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday called on the incumbent A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) to file an elections petition to prove that people voted in the names of dead people and overseas-based Guyanese. He said the coalition was behaving ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 7 May 2020, 15:06 by Denis Chabrol There was no secret meeting between senior Information Technology (IT) staff members of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) and representatives of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) on Thursday and suspension of the tabulation had nothing to do with that interaction, a GECOM  spokeswoman said. GECOM spokeswoman, Yolanda Ward said ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 6 May 2020, 20:36 by Denis Chabrol Police say they are making stringent efforts to recapture seven inmates who escaped from the Juvenile Detention Centre at Sophia, Greater Georgetown after injuring tw0 policemen. Authorities say five have since been recaptured since they bolted from the facility at about 11:30 Tuesday night. Police say during the incident,  ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 6 May 2020, 20:31 by Denis Chabrol An oil spill  from Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) Kingston Power Complex in Georgetown has also leaked into the Demerara River  and a clean-up has since begun, the power company said. “A small amount of the spill seeped into the Demerara River,” the power company said in a ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 6 May 2020, 20:18 by Denis Chabrol Executive Member of the opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP), Anil Nandlall says the 25 boxes of ballots that were recounted on Wednesday so far proves that his party’s Statements of Poll are accurate, but other pro-government players in the exercise say a number of discrepancies were found. “By and ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 6 May 2020, 18:50 by Denis Chabrol The recount of votes cast in the March 2, 2020 general and regional elections dragged on Wednesday afternoon, with just about 22 boxes declared from which a small number of discrepancies were found, according to well-placed sources. The recount on Day 1 of the exercise at the Arthur Chung ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 6 May 2020, 12:35 by Denis Chabrol The Guyana Elections Commission  on Wednesday morning began the long-awaited national recount of all votes cast in general elections held on March 2, 2020. Security was tight. Police deployed sniffer dogs to check for explosives in vehicles. Except for diplomats, the Chief Elections Officer and Election Commissioners, everyone else ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 5 May 2020, 9:57 by Denis Chabrol The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) on Tuesday morning began moving more than 400,000 ballots from its headquarters at Kingston, Georgetown to the Arthur Chung Conference Centre at Liliendaal where the national recount is expected to begin on Wednesday. The first two or more than 12 shipping containers left GECOM’s ...