Last Updated on Monday, 19 March 2018, 22:41 by Denis Chabrol Guyana’s President, David Granger on Monday said waterways running through a number of countries of the Guiana Shield must be properly managed as part of a security mechanism, and that rivers must not be polluted. He was at the time addressing the 8th World Water Forum in Brasilia, Brazil ...
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Guyana to host ICAO Air Transport conference for the first time
Last Updated on Monday, 19 March 2018, 22:07 by Denis Chabrol Guyana will for the first time host the 2018 International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) Air Transport Conference; a significant responsibility it has earned following the improvement in its compliance with ICAO. The five-day conference, which will be held in November later this year, was officially launched today at the ...
Read More »David Hinds takes on Amna Ally over “little issue” of freedom of expression
Last Updated on Monday, 19 March 2018, 21:59 by Denis Chabrol Working People’s Alliance (WPA) executive member, Professor David Hinds, who was recently sacked by the state-owned and government-controlled Guyana Chronicle newspaper on Monday objected strongly to People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) General Secretary, Amna Ally calling the spat over freedom of expression a “little issue” “First, the statement betrays ...
Read More »GWI begins breaking down fence it says encroaches on Lama Canal reserve
Last Updated on Monday, 19 March 2018, 21:03 by Denis Chabrol The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) on Monday- March 19, 2018- began dismantling a fence which it said was found to be encroaching on its reserve near the Lama Canal. Only the first of the two-layered zinc fence was removed. The utility company said in a statement that the fence ...
Read More »Major fire at GPL’s Kingston power plant yard averted; electricity supply uninterrupted
Last Updated on Monday, 19 March 2018, 16:32 by Denis Chabrol A major fire was Monday afternoon averted in the Water Street, Kingston compound of the Guyana Power and Light Inc. as a result of quick action by staff of Power Producers and Distributors Inc; backed up by support from the Guyana Fire Service, officials said. Fire fighters were investigating ...
Read More »PNCR General Secretary not worried about talk in WPA of leaving coalition
Last Updated on Monday, 19 March 2018, 12:22 by Denis Chabrol General Secretary of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), Amna Ally on Monday shrugged off suggestions by sections of the Working People’s Alliance (WPA) that it should leave her party’s dominated A Partnership for National Unity (APNU). “We don’t have any deteriorating relations,” she told Demerara Waves Online News. ...
Read More »Killing of suspected bandits justified although not all were armed- Police Commissioner
Last Updated on Monday, 19 March 2018, 11:07 by Denis Chabrol Guyana’s Police Commissioner, David Ramnaraine on Monday justified the killing of three suspected bandits on the Georgetown seawall road although only two of them were armed and one gun was recovered. “The specific details can always be debated but at the end of the day the evidence is there ...
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