About 100 supporters of A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) on Friday targeted several foreign and local institutions in the first wave of targeted protests over the election results. They chanted outside the American Embassy, Guyana Court of Appeal, the business place owned by the Chairman of the Private Sector Commission (PSC) and the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM). ...

As Guyana looks towards gradually reopening sectors of its economy, particularly tourism, stakeholders in that industry are calling for more testing and tracing to be done aimed at improving consumer confidence and containing the spread of the deadly coronavirus (COVID-19). Newly-appointed Director of the Guyana Tourism Authority (GTA) Carla James- Chandra told the third Tourism Recovery Action Committee (TRAC) meeting ...

by Samuel Sukhnandan A number of small parties s rejecting calls being made by the A Partnership for National Unity/Alliance for Change (APNU+AFC) to have dialogue with all parties with the aim of ending the current electoral impasse. A New and United Guyana (ANUG), the Liberty and Justice Party (LJP) and The New Movement (TNM) all say they are not ...

by Samuel Sukhnandan As time draws closer for the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) to deliver on its monthly payment to workers, the corporation says it is unclear whether they will be able to honour its obligations. GuySuCo’s Corporate Communications Manager Audreyanna Thomas says the corporation has for weeks been waiting on the disbursement of $750 million the National Industrial and ...

Chief Elections Officer, Keith Lowenfield was Friday morning granted a total of GYD$450,000 bail on three indictable offences in connection with the March 2, 2020 general election. He has been charged with misconduct in public office and alleged electoral fraud, and conspiracy to alter results that had been declared in March for that district. The complainants are Desmond Morean of ...

Chief Elections Officer, Keith Lowenfield Friday morning turned up at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court to answer three private criminal charges. He is represented by Senior Counsel Neil Boston and Attorney-at-Law Nigel Hughes. He has been charged with misconduct in public office and alleged electoral fraud, and conspiracy to alter results that had been declared in March for that district. The ...

by Samuel Sukhnandan A lack of manpower and the difficult terrain in Region Nine (Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo) is posing a major challenge for regional officials to fight the spread of the deadly coronavirus. This is according to Regional Executive Officer (REO) Carl Parker who heads the COVID-19 Task Force in that region. Mr. Parker told News Talk Radio 103.1 FM/Demerara Waves ...

The opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP)-aligned election commissioners on Thursday condemned new attacks being leveled against Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Chair Retired Justice Claudette Singh. Commissioners Sase Gunraj, Bibi Shaddick and Robeson Benn said in a joint statement that there seems to be a new norm where individuals and organizations that take actions or make statements which appear to be different from ...

By Samuel Sukhnandan Guyana’s decision to ban incoming international flights, combined with the move by many airlines to reduce passenger flights,  has dealt a blow to non-traditional agricultural exports, officials said. Because of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, Guyana closed all its airports to international passenger aircraft on March 19, a closure that could remain in place until August 28 at ...

by Samuel Sukhnandan A family has nowhere to go after a fire destroyed their Mon Repos house which was built several years ago. A fire tore apart the house at 179 Fourth Street Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara Wednesday night around 10:30, destroying everything inside. One day after, Omrow Deopaul,68, says he and his family need help to rebuild and is ...