Last Updated on Friday, 9 November 2018, 16:57 by Denis Chabrol High Court Judge, Gino Persaud Friday afternoon threw out People’s Progressive Party’s Bibi Shadick’s efforts to block the holding of local government elections for numerous neighbourhood councils on the grounds that local government minister, Ronald Bulkan did not first issue an order containing several key pieces of information. In ...

Last Updated on Friday, 9 November 2018, 13:07 by Denis Chabrol The captain of the ill-fated Fly Jamaica Airlines jet that made an emergency landing at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport alleged that several personal items were stolen from the plane, police said. Police and fire officials  said at least nine fire fighters were being questioned by investigators in connection ...

Last Updated on Friday, 9 November 2018, 6:42 by Denis Chabrol A Fly Jamaica airliner crashed early Friday morning at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri, officials said. Six persons were injured and rushed to Diamond Regional Hospital. “They are all stable and are being looked at,”  Minister of Public Infrastructure, David Patterson said.  He added that all the persons ...

Last Updated on Friday, 9 November 2018, 0:31 by Denis Chabrol Former Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Kamla Persad-Bissessar  Thursday night urged Guyana to formulate a broad-based national development policy to spend expected “massive” oil wealth on developing the country over the next 200 years. Addressing the Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association Awards and Dinner, the Opposition Leader also ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 8 November 2018, 18:32 by Denis Chabrol The Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM) is willing to assist Guyana in assessing whether offshore oil industry work is impacting on fish stock, but Guyana says it may be better for oil companies to collect the relevant data. CRFM Executive Director, Milton Haughton said Guyana has not asked for ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 8 November 2018, 17:27 by Denis Chabrol Oil companies interested in acquiring concessions, including those in ultra deep waters, will have to wait until early 2020 by which time the country is expected to have a model Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) and upgraded laws, officials said Thursday. Head of the Ministry of the Presidency’s Department of ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 8 November 2018, 10:56 by Denis Chabrol by GHK Lall The vulgar dissonance that has characterized the Berbice Bridge from its conception, birth, and now sickly if not obese presence continues.  Dissonance is being polite; it is more like river-crossing robbery; in reality the political precursor and equivalent to the piracy on the high seas further ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 8 November 2018, 10:44 by Denis Chabrol Guyana’s fight against the mosquito-borne disease, malaria, is coming up against a few stumbling blocks due to a lack of knowledge about transmission of the disease, according to preliminary findings of behavioural change survey. The findings were made by a team being spearheaded by the United States Agency for ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 7 November 2018, 21:01 by Denis Chabrol President David Granger is resting comfortably at an official residence following an intensive series of tests by specialist doctors immediately after he arrived in Cuba on Tuesday, October 30, 2018, the Ministry of the Presidency said. The President is receiving treatment at the Centro de Investigaciones Medico Quirugicas (CIMEQ) in Havana, ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 7 November 2018, 17:53 by Denis Chabrol The Guyana government has already intervened to address claims of discrimination against Guyanese seafarers by one of the companies contracted to hire them to work aboard vessels involved in oil exploration offshore Guyan. The Guyana Seafarer’s and General Workers Union (GS&GWU) said Wednesday that most seamen and other mariners ...