Works along the Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route, Arou­ca, at the in­ter­sec­tion of Back­a­day Road, will con­tin­ue over the next two nights-Mon­day 3rd Au­gust and Tues­day 4th Au­gust 2020, from 8:00 p.m. to 4:00 a.m. each night.

Nine Venezue­lans were de­tained by San­ta Flo­ra Po­lice for il­le­gal en­try in­to
Trinidad on Au­gust 2nd.

The com­mis­sion­er was test­ed af­ter be­ing in con­tact with some­one who was a sec­ondary con­tact of an­oth­er per­son sus­pect­ed of be­ing pos­i­tive.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad Biss­esar has con­grat­u­lat­ed new­ly ap­point­ed Guyanese Pres­i­dent Dr Mo­hammed Ir­fann Ali.
In a press re­lease is­sued to­day, Per­sad-Biss­esar stat­ed even though Guyana’s Elec­tion faced many sig­nif­i­cant chal­lenges, democ­ra­cy and lib­er­ty pre­vailed in the end.

The Min­istry of Health pro­vides the fol­low­ing clin­i­cal up­date as of the morn­ing of Mon­day 3rd Au­gust, 2020:

Pres­i­dent Paula-Mae Weekes has claimed that the coun­try is still yet to heal from the dam­age caused by the 1990 at­tempt­ed coup.

The pres­i­den­tial can­di­date for the main op­po­si­tion Peo­ple's Pro­gres­sive Par­ty/Civic (PPP/C), Dr Mo­hamed Ir­faan Ali, was on Sun­day de­clared pres­i­dent elect of Guyana.

The Pro­gres­sive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Pa­tri­ots (PDP) is once again call­ing out per­sons who have used the par­ty's lo­go and im­age to as­so­ciate it with the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC).

The Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter’s Gen­der and Child Af­fairs Di­vi­sion has con­firmed that per­sons at a chil­dren’s home—St Jude’s Home for Girls—have test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID-19.

The Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion is re­fut­ing claims that Green­vale Park is be­ing evac­u­at­ed at this time, be­cause of flood­ing re­sult­ing from to­day’s stormy weath­er con­di­tions.

Spe­cial Elec­tors be­gin vot­ing to­mor­row, pri­or to the 2020 Gen­er­al Elec­tion, sched­uled for Mon­day 10 Au­gust 2020.

One man was ar­rest­ed and six il­le­gal weapons and quan­ti­ties of as­sort­ed am­mu­ni­tion seized by of­fi­cers of the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion Task Force, dur­ing an ear­ly morn­ing an­ti-crime ex­er­cise con­duct­ed in the Tor­tu­ga Vil­lage dis­trict, on Sat­ur­day 1st Au­gust 2020.