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Chief Election Officer of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Vishnu Persaud on Tuesday said except for Georgetown where there was a hiccup, the results of Monday’s Local Government Elections in the other nine electoral districts have been declared by Returning Officers in those areas. “All of the Returning Officers, who are statutorily tasked with declaration, have so done. Declaration of ...

Ahead of official declaration of results in Guyana’s Local Government Elections, both major parties are claiming victories in keenly contested Local Authority Areas such as three major towns that are traditional strongholds of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR)-led A Partnership for National Unity (APNU). Up to early Tuesday morning, the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) did not post results on ...

A former Branch Manger of North American Fire Insurance Company (NAFICO) has been charged with 16 counts of Ponzi scheme related fraud fraud and converting GY$5.8 million belonging to the New Light Assembly of God Church’s to her own use, the Guyana Police Force’s Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) said on Monday. Phylicia Jallim, a former Branch Manager of NAFICO ...

The Private Sector Commission (PSC), which observed Monday’s Local Government Elections (LGE), said polling was free and fair, even as the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) said results could start coming in from about 10 O’clock Monday night. “Although voter turnout has been low, the PSC Observers, along with the UK (United Kingdom) Observer and AMCHAM (American Chamber of Commerce) Observers, ...

Two men are wanted in connection with the shooting death of Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Coast Guardsman, Lieutenant Rondel Douglas who was at the time driving his privately-owned car as a taxi. Those wanted are 25-year old Jamie Ghanie of 59 Pattensen-Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown and 25-year old Harold known as “Stewie” of Turkeyen. Police said they wanted to question the ...

General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), Bharrat Jagdeo on Monday denied telling business owners not to provide financial support to the opposition A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and buying out opposition supporters. “The PPP is not telling people not to make contributions to APNU,” he told reporters shortly after casting his ballot in the Local Government Elections ...

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) is Monday mourning the loss of soldier , who tragically lost his life in a shooting incident. The GDF has expressed heartfelt condolences to the family of Private Tevon Daymon. The defence force said the incident took place at approximately 4:51 hours at Base Camp Stephenson in Timehri. According to the defence force, the prime ...

Polls opened in Guyana’s Local Government Elections (LGE) on Monday, with Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton saying his People’s National Congress Reform-led A Partnership for  National Unity (APNU) did not contest in all Local Authority Areas but opted to dedicate its limited resources in its strongholds. “In terms of strategy, our strategy was to take our resources and focus it in ...

A taxi driver has been arrested after leaving a three-year old child in his locked car, police said. Investigators said the driver returned 30 minutes later from his home and rushed the tearful child to the Mahaicony Cottage Hospital where doctors said the child was dehydrated and needed oxygen. The child was transferred to the Georgetown Public Hospital where he ...

The central  government incumbent People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC), in an all-out push to snatch decades-long control of the Georgetown City Council from the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR)-led A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), is banking on its kept promises to win votes from Afro-Guyanese communities. In a frontal appeal to the mainly Afro-Guyanese attendees, he said the evidence ...