Last Updated on Friday, 12 October 2018, 14:52 by Denis Chabrol The Guyana Court of Appeal on Friday pushed back delivering its decision on the constitutionality of  President David Granger’s unilateral appointment of the Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM). The Justices of Appeal are Chancellor of the Judiciary, Yonette Cummings-Edwards, Rishi Persaud and Dawn Gregory. After a more ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 11 October 2018, 17:43 by Denis Chabrol Reproduced from Plymouth Live An evil member of staff has been caged for 16 years for raping an elderly resident with dementia at a Plymouth, United Kingdom care home. Plymouth Live newspaper reported on October 5, 2018 that laundryman Himwanth Ramkishun, aged 54, took advantage of the helpless 76-year-old grandmother ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 11 October 2018, 11:34 by Denis Chabrol A University of the West Indies (UWI) student was killed in a road accident when she was struck down by a car driven by a prospective trainee pilot, police sources said. At the time of the accident, she was crossing the road in the company of her fiance who ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 11 October 2018, 8:09 by Denis Chabrol The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) needs three regional shipping hubs and slackening paperwork bottlenecks to improve transportation, even as Barbados’ Prime Minister, Mia Mottley  said producing large amounts of food in Guyana and Suriname would be senseless if the constraint of regional transportation is not removed. “Production of vegetables or fruit crops ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 10 October 2018, 14:20 by Denis Chabrol Reproduced from Irish Times Digicel, the mobile phone operator owned by Denis O’Brien, has launched legal action against the telco regulator in the former Dutch colony of Suriname for blocking its cross-border data link with Digicel in neighbouring Guyana. Last week, the Telecommunications Authority Suriname (TAS) shut down the allegedly illegal microwave ...

Last Updated on Friday, 12 October 2018, 17:33 by Denis Chabrol Coconut producers and vendors in Guyana and other Caribbean Community (Caricom) member states will soon have to abide by new food safety standards for coconut water after scientists found a high percentage of bacteria though no one has been sickened by coconut water, officials said Wednesday. Executive Director of ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 9 October 2018, 16:11 by Denis Chabrol Mariners can now get updated nautical maps and charts to aid them in navigating part of the Demerara River safely through a  British-funded US$1.1 million hydrographic survey, paving the way for increased traffic of boats and ships with larger amounts of cargo,  the Maritime Administration (MARAD) said Tuesday. “The ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 9 October 2018, 13:43 by Denis Chabrol CGX Energy Inc. has announced their intention to contribute to the capacity building of Berbice residents in the oil and gas sector. Dr. Suresh Narine, Executive Chairman of CGX Energy Inc., announced that 30 Guyanese from the Berbice area will be trained in geo-chemistry. He remarked that the decision ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 9 October 2018, 13:31 by Denis Chabrol Caribbean governments are being urged to ban sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) from school environments and integrate the health, education and agriculture ministries, in an effort to reduce stem the scourge of  non-communicable diseases such as diabetes. President of the Healthy Caribbean Coalition, Sir Trevor Hassell issued the call at the ...

Last Updated on Monday, 8 October 2018, 21:46 by Denis Chabrol The Guyana government is offering teachers a 10 percent salary increase for 2016, eight percent for 2018, and GY$350 million to adjust some salary scales, a Guyana Teachers’ Union official confirmed Monday night. Asked about the fact that no mention was made of a salary hike for 2017, a ...