Last Updated on Wednesday, 6 January 2016, 7:34 by Denis Chabrol The Maritime Administration Department (MARAD) of Guyana saw a reduction of 21.7% in total marine deaths for the year 2015. The Government Information Agency (GINA) reported that during the Ministry of Public Infrastructure’s performance review by Director General Ms. Claudette Rogers. This decline was attributed to a number of safety ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 6 January 2016, 7:28 by Denis Chabrol Former Attorney General, Anil Nandlall has labeled as “cosmetology” consultations on two Bills that he was invited to by his successor to discuss, Basil Williams. Nandlall questioned whether Justices of Peace would be competent enough to preside over inquests across Guyana, and he also recommended that they hold certain ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 5 January 2016, 21:53 by Denis Chabrol Days after stating that the Ministry of Tourism has been dissolved, government Tuesday night assured that tourism has not been put on the ministerial back burner but has instead been twinned with Public Telecommunications. However, a tourism industry stakeholder still believes that the sector will not be given the ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 5 January 2016, 17:24 by Denis Chabrol Police were Tuesday probing the death of a fisherman whose body was found in the net of a fishing vessel that was working in the vicinity of the Berbice River in eastern Guyana. The man has been identified as Shahabudeen Haniff, 49 years, of Meten-Meer-Zorg, West Coast Demerara. The ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 5 January 2016, 17:36 by Denis Chabrol Amid growing concern about the role of military intelligence in civilian operations like the one mounted against the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL), the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Tuesday said Sergeant Robert Pyle was involved in a “legitimate operation” last week when he died in a vehicular ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 5 January 2016, 15:44 by Denis Chabrol Consequent to the appointment of Cathy Hughes as Minister of Public Telecommunications, the APNU+AFC has taken a decision to dissolve Guyana’s Ministry of Tourism and have its functions usurped by the new Telecommunications Ministry. According to a release from the Department of Public Information, cabinet took the decision to make ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 5 January 2016, 12:22 by Denis Chabrol There has been no final decision made by the Guyana National Broadcasting Authority (GNBA) to revoke all radio spectrum licenses issued by Former President Bharrat Jagdeo, says GNBA Head Lennox Craig. Craig during a telephone interview with Demerara Waves revealed that there has been discussions to that extent but ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 5 January 2016, 12:15 by Denis Chabrol Reproduced from the Los Angeles Times Robert Flick was a newsman who could have passed for a barroom bouncer. And standing on the tarmac of an airfield in Port Kaituma, Guyana, on Nov. 18, 1978, moments after a massacre-style shooting by followers of cult leader Jim Jones, he appeared ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 5 January 2016, 11:51 by Denis Chabrol The Private Sector Commission (PSC) says that after a consultation meeting with the Attorney General over Coroners Amendment Bill and the Law Reform Commission Bill, it has recommended some minor amendments. In a release to the media on Tuesday, the PSC noted that the discussion centered primarily on the ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 5 January 2016, 11:45 by Denis Chabrol The women and child rights organisation, Red Thread, on Tuesday rubbished government’s proposed ministerial code of conduct, saying that it does not provide for sexual harassment and child molestation. Executive Member of Red Thread, Karen De Souza told Demerara Waves Online News that the code of conduct should have ...