Disability

A flood warning is issued for flood-prone areas over the next few hours due to ongoing rainfall that is expected to continue until Thursday, May 14, 2020. “The Civil Defence Commission is urging residents in high-risk communities to take the necessary precautions,” the agency said. Further, kindly call the Civil Defence Commission, 24 hours National Emergency Monitoring System (NEMS) on ...

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has not discussed voting by the estimated 30,000 disabled and visually-impaired persons at next March’s general elections, although provision had been made for physically challenged persons to vote on the kerb of polling stations in 2015. Concerns were also raised about the confidentiality of balloting by visually-impaired persons who have to vote by proxy with ...