Politics

The Guyana government might have to write off just over GYD$19 million that had been spent on buying a closed circuit television system for the National Intelligence Centre in 2015 but which has never been delivered and the now bankrupt company cannot be located, officials said Wednesday. “This was a matter that was entered into and the CCTV (Closed-Circuit Television ...

The New York Police Department (NYPD) says Guyana’s Attorney General Anil Nandlall is under investigation for aggravated harassment, but he has already publicly denied the accusation. NYPD says they received a complaint from United States-based activist Rickford Burke. The Detective Squad at the 71st Precinct in Brooklyn, New York is conducting the investigation, according to the law enforcement agency. It ...

Executive member of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), Dr. Richard Vanwest Charles has suggested that since the 2020 general and regional elections, his party has fallen somewhat into unconstitutional mode because its Congress is now long overdue. “I would not say a crisis but I would say there is a deviation from the constitutional requirements and hence has damaged ...

A group of Cubans in Guyana on Monday afternoon protested outside the Cuban embassy, in solidarity with their fellow citizens back in Cuba who are involved in countrywide protests there. Citizens of the Cuban communist -run Caribbean nation, in a historic, move have taken to the streets in Cuba to protest economic hardship in the country, lack of democracy, food ...

Chief Elections Officer Keith Lowenfield is asking the High Court to block Elections Commissioners Sase Gunraj and Bibi Shadick from participating in hearing a motion for his immediate dismissal on the grounds that he needs a fair hearing. The pro-People’s Progressive Party (PPP) Election Commissioners have also filed motions in GECOM for the Deputy Chief Elections Officer  Roxanne Myers and ...

Guyanese police on Thursday said they have arrested three men suspected of being involved in burning down the Linden office of the Guyana Elections Commission  (GECOM) last year, and they are looking for a man believed to be the mastermind. “Police investigators are also pursuing an official in Linden who is said to be the intellectual author behind the burning ...

President Irfaan Ali has welcomed the United States’ rejoining of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and the target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent in another nine years. Dr. Ali was quoted by government’s  Department of Public Information as welcoming the US’s decision earlier this year to rejoin the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and applauding US ...

Reproduced from the BBC Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse has been killed in an attack on his home in the nation’s capital, according to the country’s interim prime minister. Claude Joseph said the president’s residence in Port-au-Prince was stormed by unidentified armed men at 01:00 local time (05:00 GMT). The First Lady was reportedly also injured in the attack. Mr Joseph ...

The 15-nation Caribbean Community (CARICOM) on Tuesday justified the imposition of visa restrictions, weeks after Guyana reinstated that requirements for Haitians coming here due to concerns about people smuggling to neighbouring countries. Speaking at a news conference at the end of a summit of regional leaders, CARICOM Chairman- Antigua and Barbuda’s Prime Minister Gaston Browne agreed that nationals of member ...

The Chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC), Retired Assistant Police Commissioner Paul Slowe on Monday afternoon said he did not receive a reply from Police Commissioner Nigel Hoppie concerning the issuance of  a special promotions order for more than 130 officers. Mr. Slowe said now that Mr. Hoppie has breached the midday, Tuesday 6th July, 2021  deadline that was ...