Politics

Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton on Monday-New Year’s Day 2024- said the serving of summonses to New York-based Guyanese opposition activist, Rickford Burke, is a sign of the further deterioration of human rights by the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC)-led administration. “Its assault on our freedoms of expression and association reached even more dangerous heights, as the recent court summons served ...

President Irfaan Ali and Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton on Monday broke New Year 2024 with different accounts on whether Guyanese are pocketing more money or are grappling with serious poverty. While the Guyanese leader boasted of a “phenomenal” 40 percent economic growth in 2023, a more than 21.5 percent increase in the salary base of all public servants since 2020, ...

Venezuela’s combined opposition, Democratic Unitary Platform, early Saturday reiterated its position that the Venezuela-Guyana border controversy should be settled by the International Court of Justice (ICJ), even as it strenuously objected to the presence of a British warship in the waters of this former British colony. “From the Democratic Unitary Platform, we reiterate that Venezuelans have solid legal documents to ...

Even as Brazil on Friday registered its objection to the British warship, HMS Trent, in Guyana’s waters, a senior government official said his country would determine what it does with its territory. “Only GUYANA will determine what Guyana does in its territorial land, air and sea spaces in accordance with international laws,” Foreign Secretary Robert Persaud said on his Facebook ...

Vice President, Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday said Guyana would not ask the United Kingdom (UK) to abandon the deployment of a warship to waters off this country’s coast, in the wake of Venezuela’s concerns that that is provocative. “No, the President has not asked the British vessel to move away from what was a planned activity and we see as ...

By Retired Rear Admiral Dr Gary Best For sixty years and counting, Venezuela has occupied Guyana’s sovereign half of Ankoko Island, along the Guyana-Venezuela border. This should be kept in mind as we navigate the Argyle Declaration. Importantly, the Argyle Declaration recently forged between Guyana and Venezuela leaves much to be desired, except the saving grace of weak international recognition ...

Shadow Attorney General, Senior Counsel Roysdale Forde and government parliamentarian Attorney-at-Law Sanjeev Datadin are at odds over the legality of serving summonses to anti- People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) activist, Rickford Burke at his New York residence. Mr Forde contended that the jurisdiction of Guyana’s courts and the authority of the Guyana Police Force are limited to this country’s geographical ...

A Royal Navy patrol ship will be sent to Guyana in a show of British support for the Commonwealth country, the United Kingdom’s Guardian newspaper reported. The South American country is in a dispute with Venezuela over a mineral-rich border region. HMS Trent will take part in joint exercises with Guyana after Christmas. A Ministry of Defence spokesperson said: “HMS Trent will ...

Attorney General Anil Nandlall on Friday declined to comment on whether the Guyana government obtained permission from the United States (US) for a Guyana Police Force (GPF) officer to be involved in the service of summonses to anti-government activist, Rickford Burke at his Brooklyn, New York residence. Asked whether he was comfortable that Assistant Superintendent of Police Rodwell Sarabo did ...

By Ivan Cairo Paramaribo – Desi Bouterse, former coup leader, ex-commander and ex-president, was Wednesday sentenced for the third time to a twenty-year prison term for his part in the controversial multiple murder of fifteen men on December 8, 1982. No detention has been ordered against him. After being convicted twice by the Court Martial – in November 2019 and ...