Last Updated on Friday, 15 June 2018, 20:19 by Denis Chabrol Jamaica’s Chief Justice, Justice B. Sykes has issued an injunction against the St. Lucia- based owners of regional sports broadcasting network SportsMax, International Media Content Ltd (IMC), preventing them from disconnecting a feed of FIFA World Cup to E-Networks. IMC had issued a cease and desist letter to E-Networks ...

Last Updated on Friday, 15 June 2018, 13:49 by Denis Chabrol A Guyana Police Force Corporal was Friday arraigned on several charges, including wounding, in connection with an altercation he had with his girlfriend and her sister earlier this month. Corporal Rondell Gouveia was granted GY$140,000 bail and ordered to return to court on July 9 for the commencement of ...

Last Updated on Friday, 15 June 2018, 11:01 by Denis Chabrol Preliminary tests conducted Friday morning at a muddy eruption at Diamond, East Bank Demerara have shown very low levels of natural gas. Executive Director of the Environmental Protection Agency, Kemraj Parsram told reporters the results he moments before received from experts at Massy Gas Products. “From this initial assessment, ...

Last Updated on Friday, 15 June 2018, 7:59 by Denis Chabrol Guyanese Dr. Christopher Arif Bulkan was Thursday elected to serve on the United Nations Human Rights Committee for a term of four years from 2019 – 2022, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced. Dr. Bulkan, nominated by the Government of Guyana, was elected along with the candidates of Tunisia, ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 14 June 2018, 22:54 by Denis Chabrol There has been a small natural gas eruption in a yard at 4th Street, Diamond New Scheme, government said Thursday night. “All residents are currently safe and the yard has been cordoned off and is being monitored by the authorities. The situation at the moment is that the eruption ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 14 June 2018, 16:39 by Denis Chabrol The High Court has been asked to remove a government-appointed management team of the Guyana Public Service Cooperative Credit Union (GPSCCU) that seized control of the financial institution last month on the grounds that it is illegal. In court papers obtained by Demerara Waves Online News, Patricia Went, in ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 14 June 2018, 15:30 by Denis Chabrol Guyana’s Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday warned that the current level of peace would not prevail if the  2020 general and regional elections are rigged resulting in the David Granger-led coalition administration remaining in power. “There will be consequences if they think that they can rig the elections ...

Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Retired Justice James Patterson on Wednesday said he believed that his pick of Roxanne Myers over Vishnu Persaud to be the next Deputy Chief Elections Officer was “fit and proper”. Making his position known on the issue one day after the opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP)-aligned GECOM Commissioners slammed his decision to cast ...

Ousted Management Committee members of the Guyana Public Service Cooperative Credit Union (GPSCCU) were blocked from travelling to Trinidad this week on tickets purchased with the credit union’s funds, well-placed sources said. “We can’t have them travelling… We can’t have them go out there to represent us, given the issues that we still have with them now,” one of the ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 13 June 2018, 17:21 by Denis Chabrol Immigration records show that more than 20,000 Haitians and Cubans are still in Guyana, the bulk of them having arrived here in 2017 and up to April of this year, raising concerns about “human trafficking”. The bipartisan parliamentary committee on Foreign Affairs decided to summon Minister of Foreign Affairs, ...