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At about 2100h. last night, police say that four men armed with cutlasses and a handgun entered a home at Belvedere, Corentyne, through an open door, and held up Ramesh Puran, 49 years, his wife and two other relatives, and demanded cash and jewellery.

The Guyana Bar Association, the Guyana Association of Women Lawyers, the Justice Institute of Guyana and Transparency Institute (Guyana) Inc this afternoon called on President Donald Ramotar and the ruling PPP/C to accept the results of Monday’s general elections and to concede electoral victory to APNU+AFC.

The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry says it is becoming deeply concerned by the apparent refusal of the one of the main political parties to accept the results of the 2015 elections.

Members of the APNU+AFC coalition this morning met with GECOM insisting that the commission make the official declaration of the elections result, however the commission is maintaining that it has until noon tomorrow to make the public declaration.

Swami Aksharananda today urged the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to urgently declare the final election results and to swear in President-elect David Granger.

The European Union (EU) today commended the elections commission over the general elections and said that any grievance over the result must be addressed through legal channels.

Preliminary results show that the APNU+AFC alliance has won the May 11th elections by a margin of just over 5,000 votes but President Donald Ramotar yesterday refused to concede that his PPP/C had lost, while saying the process was rigged and demanding a manual recount of all ballots.

Region Four was pivotal in ensuring an APNU+AFC victory at the 2015 General Elections as it gained just above 18, 000 voters in this Region.

President Donald Ramotar yesterday refused to concede that the PPP/C has lost the 2015 general elections and called for a total recount of all votes even as he accused the APNU+AFC alliance of colluding with Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) staff to rig the elections.

For four hours on Monday night, Narine Khublall, former PPP/C parliamentarian Joseph Hamilton and about 30 other persons were surrounded by an angry mob in Khublall’s Sophia home fearful that an attempt would be made to burn it.

Crime Chief Leslie James yesterday said that he is satisfied with how police handled security in the city on Elections Day.

After Chief Election Officer, Keith Lowenfield declares the official results of the May 11th polls, he will then name APNU+AFC presidential candidate David Granger as the president-elect -which would pave the way for the eighth president of the country to be sworn in.

Gilbert Gill, who admitted to murdering another man after a row aboard a tug boat in the Demerara River, was yesterday sentenced to 40 years in prison.

Local police yesterday arrested a man who is wanted for a double murder in Trinidad and Tobago.

Mark Cromwell, the man being sought in connection with the hair-raising arms cache found at the GNIC wharf on Lombard Street, yesterday turned himself over to the police in the company of an attorney, Crime Chief Leslie James has confirmed.

Three persons, including a 16-year-old, were charged yesterday over looting that occurred in ‘C’ Field, Sophia during protests on Election Day.

Although there were signs that tensions were diminishing in the city, many businesses remained tightly shut yesterday even after the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) announced preliminary results of the general and regional elections.

A Linden man was yesterday charged with possession of cannabis and assaulting a policeman who attempted to arrest him for the offence.

While the Ministry of Education maintains that schools across the nation are opened and operating normally, parents at least in the city have taken the decision to keep their children at home during the wait for results from Monday’s polls.

Roman Catholic Bishop Francis Alleyne noting that Gecom’s preliminary results of the 2015 elections show a photo-finish with APNU+AFC emerging victorious, yesterday called for the declaration of results to be done speedily.