Last Updated on Thursday, 12 April 2018, 10:54 by Denis Chabrol Former Finance Minister, Dr. Ashni Singh and former Head of the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL)/ Privatisation Unit, Winston Brassington were Thursday given until early next month to make an appearance in connection with the sale of three plots of land for a total of more than ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 12 April 2018, 8:08 by Denis Chabrol Former Finance Minister, Ashni Singh and former Head of the Privatisation Unit, Winston Brassington have been charged in connection with the sale of threw plots of land. Their lawyer, Anil Nandlall said they have been charged with three counts f misconduct in public office. Nandlall said it has to ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 12 April 2018, 5:46 by Denis Chabrol Former Chancellor of the Judiciary, Carl Singh says Guyana’s judiciary “has survived a testing period” characterised by one of his predecessors calling on the judiciary to toe a socialist line in support of the then government, affixing of the People’s National Congress’  (PNC) flag outside the Court of Appeal ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 12 April 2018, 4:28 by Denis Chabrol Former Chancellor of the Judiciary, Carl Singh on Wednesday night recommended that parliamentarians cease their ruckus in the House and instead change the laws that conflict with constitutionally guaranteed fundamental rights. Delivering a lecture on “The Constitutional Guarantee of Fundamental Rights and the Citizen” at the University of Guyana ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 11 April 2018, 18:19 by Denis Chabrol Reproduced from Trinidad Newsday PARENTS of an 11-year-old student say their child is being prevented from writing the Secondary Entrance Assessment (SEA) exam, next month, and are threatening to approach the High Court for an injunction to force the Education Ministry to permit him to sit the test. Attorneys ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 11 April 2018, 15:44 by Denis Chabrol The Guyanese man, who is fighting extradition to the United States (US) to face a murder charge, would later this month know whether the process would be quashed or he would continue to face the proceedings in the Magistrates Court. Troy Anthony Thomas was arrested on March 14, 2018 ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 11 April 2018, 11:08 by Denis Chabrol Six men have been arrested in connection with the alleged discovery of four handguns and numerous rounds of ammunition, after they failed to rob an East Bank Demerara poultry farmer, police said. The Guyana Police Force said two 9 MM Glock pistols, one of whose serial number was filed ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 11 April 2018, 10:45 by Denis Chabrol President David Granger on Wednesday said government would be turning its attention to overseas hire experts to staff the Department of Energy in the Ministry of the Presidency. With a road-map already in place, the Guyanese leader said the search would extend for a building and “quality personnel” for the ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 10 April 2018, 17:35 by Denis Chabrol At least three new law schools, including one in Guyana, should be established, but the Caribbean’s Council for Legal Education (CLE) should regulate instead of manage all such institutions across the region, according to a survey report on Legal Education in the Caribbean. Funded by Canada and executed by ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 10 April 2018, 14:31 by Denis Chabrol Guyana’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Carl Greenidge on Tuesday indicated that his country would be paying guarded attention to the political situation in the former Netherlands Antilles- Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba- where residents complain that they have been recolonised eight years ago by The Netherlands. They want to be ...