Last Updated on Wednesday, 12 June 2019, 16:42 by Writer The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) will next week Tuesday hand down its decision on whether President David Granger’s unilateral appointment of James Patterson to head the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) was constitutional. “The first judgment will determine whether the appointment, or the process followed in the appointment, of Guyana’s ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 12 June 2019, 14:11 by Writer As the Working People’s Alliance (WPA) observes the 39th assassination anniversary of its co-leader, Dr. Walter Rodney, that party vowed that it would not be part of any plot to rig the upcoming general elections and that it knows of no such plans to do so. “As we enter the ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 11 June 2019, 22:24 by Writer A technician and a driver were Tuesday electrocuted and two others were injured during the installation of surveillance cameras at the northern side of the Guyana National Stadium. Dead are 16-year old Krishna Chan, a technician employed with Smart Teck Solution located at Lot 11A Kersaint Park, LBI, East Coast ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 11 June 2019, 16:49 by Writer Ghana’s President, Nana Akufo-Addo has agreed that his country would help Guyana’s energy sector, Director-General of the Ministry of the Presidency, Joseph Harmon said. Briefing the media after Akufo Addo was conferred with Guyana’s national award, the Order of Excellence by President David Granger, Harmon said the technical assistance cooperation ...

Last Updated on Monday, 10 June 2019, 20:53 by Writer The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has set a tentative date of next week Tuesday for a decision on whether last December’s no-confidence motion was validly passed by Guyana’s National Assembly, lawyers for the parties confirmed. Attorney-at-Law, Sanjeev Datadin, who is representing Charrandass Persaud, and Attorney-at-Law Roysdale Forde, who is  ...

Last Updated on Monday, 10 June 2019, 10:40 by Writer Security at a section of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC), where a medical intern was robbed three weeks ago, up to Sunday night appeared slack, although management says it has sought to balance tightened vigilance with hassle-free access by patients. The issue of less than satisfactory security came to the ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 9 June 2019, 18:47 by Writer Guyana’s Integrity Commission has joined other members of the Commonwealth Caribbean Association of Integrity Commissions and Anti-Corruption Bodies (CCAICACB) in identifying the need for a harmonised system of rules and legislation to tackle corruption. In a communiqué at the end of its fifth annual meeting held from June 3 to ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 9 June 2019, 18:10 by Writer Hours after prisoners at the Georgetown Prison showed off their picture-taking skills on Facebook, prison authorities on Sunday raided several cells and seized a number of phones, Director of Prisons Gladwin Samuels said. He said all five prisoners, who featured in the Facebook picture, would be charged. Inmates are prohibited ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 9 June 2019, 17:52 by Writer Former Minister of Natural Resources, Robert Persaud on Sunday said no government investigator has questioned him concerning the issuance of oil concessions and he and members of the then People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) administration were not worried about an independent probe. Officials of the State Assets Recovery Agency (SARA) ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 9 June 2019, 12:54 by Writer —A response to the deaths of Karen Shondell Reid and her offspring of Sheet Anchor, East Canje, Region 6 (East Berbice-Corentyne). by Pere DeRoy PhD student in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Kansas Many women in Guyana think about pregnancy and childbirth as a blessing and ...