By Dr. Randy Persaud, Professor Emeritus Change is unquestionably the most sought after thing in this country. Everyone wants it, including those in government. The problem is that there is too much focus on change brought about by the government, and hardly any attention paid to necessary changes within the population itself. Stated differently, we need to examine necessary changes ...

New York-based opposition activist, Rickford Burke has asked the High Court to quash the serving of a Guyana Magistrates court summons to him in New York by a Guyanese policeman, according to court documents. He wants a declaration that the purported service by Rodwell Sarabo an officer of the Guyana Police Force, in Brooklyn “is a nullity, without and in ...

The fire that burnt to death a retired Headmaster in his house at Beterverwagting was deliberately set, but so far investigators do not know who committed the act, the Guyana Fire Service said. “The cause of the fire is suspected to be malicious, with the perpetrator(s) currently unknown,” the Guyana Fire Service said Friday in its account of the blaze ...

Even as the opposition parliamentary coalition accused the Guyana government’s of double standards in dealing with Haitians in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Home Affairs Minister Robeson Benn on Friday said the smuggling of Haitians to this country had a knock-on effect on other territories in the Americas. Mr Benn sought to assure that migrants facing difficulties would not be blocked ...

-Todd promises swift meeting Opposition Shadow Minister of Foreign Affairs, Amanza Walton-Desir on Friday officially wrote Foreign Affairs Minister Hugh Todd requesting a meeting of the parliiamentary bipartisan Foreign Relations Committee. Mr Todd told Demerara Waves Online News that the meeting would be called very soon on his return to Guyana. “It is going to be done. We can have ...

Guyana on  Friday sounded a strong public appeal for international help to pressure Venezuela to use the World Court to settle the territorial dispute over the Essequibo Region, a day after that Spanish-speaking nation’s National Assembly passed a law declaring Essequibo part of its territory. “Guyana calls on the international community to uphold the rule of law by rejecting Venezuela’s ...

Guyana on Friday deplored Venezuela’s decision to declare Essequibo as its State, despite an agreement by Presidents Nicolas Maduro and Irfaan Ali to desist from taking any action that would escalate tensions between the neifhbouring South American nations. Home Affairs Minister Robeson Benn told the opening of a conference of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Regional Security System that Guyana deplores ...

Suriname’s President Chandrikapersad Santokhi is expected in Guyana this weekend to hold talks with President Irfaan Ali to decide on financing the construction of the Corentyne River bridge, the leader of that former Dutch colony said Thursday. Public Works Minister Juan Edghill on Friday ruled out the need to return to the tendering process for the for the construction of ...

A handyman was Thursday morning shot dead by a security guard, who is 20 years old, at an auto sales company at Lusignan, East Coast Demerara, the Guyana Police Force said. The dead man has been named as 19-year old Jared Jaganand of Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara. Police said the security guard, who is employed by Cerberus Security Service, ...

Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), Aubrey Norton- confident that he would be reelected to his party’s top  job at internal elections in August- said he would be the opposition’s presidential candidate, but he would be willing to make way for a consensus pick. “As is presently structured, I see that we’ll have a congress, I would be ...