Last Updated on Wednesday, 1 August 2018, 18:37 by Denis Chabrol One of two men accused of robbing a Nicaraguan doctor was hours later shot by police and arrested. Police said the 40-year old man is a carpenter who lives at Laing Avenue. Investigators said he has admitted to have only aided in the escape of the other suspect from the ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 1 August 2018, 11:39 by Denis Chabrol Former President Donald Ramotar on Wednesday-Emancipation Day 2018- warned Guyanese that if upcoming local and general elections are rigged it could forfeit the country’s democratic gains and crush legacy of African liberation from slavery. The opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP), for its part, hailed the struggle by Africans against ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 1 August 2018, 8:59 by Denis Chabrol The Guyana Reparations Committee is drafting legislation to allow Afro-Guyanese to secure a percentage of Guyana’s territory as compensation for slavery in the same way that Amerindians have been legally guaranteed land rights, a move Retired Rear Admiral Gary Best supports. “I believe that unless the State acknowledges its ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 1 August 2018, 0:33 by Denis Chabrol President David Granger Tuesday night- Emancipation Eve- urged Guyanese to become educated to take advantage of the country’s emerging oil wealth as the route towards economic emancipation. In what appeared to be his frankest public address yet to the Afro-Guyanese community, he called on them to cease idling and ...