Last Updated on Monday, 12 July 2021, 17:12 by Denis Chabrol A group of Cubans in Guyana on Monday afternoon protested outside the Cuban embassy, in solidarity with their fellow citizens back in Cuba who are involved in countrywide protests there. Citizens of the Cuban communist -run Caribbean nation, in a historic, move have taken to the streets in Cuba ...

Last Updated on Monday, 12 July 2021, 16:40 by Denis Chabrol The Guyana Police Force has been securing an average of just over 20 percent convictions for domestic violence cases in recent times, based on figures released by Police Commissioner Nigel Hoppie even as he welcomed more conducive conditions at courts for victims to testify. In a rare disclosure of ...

Last Updated on Monday, 12 July 2021, 11:33 by Denis Chabrol Second doses of the Sputnik vaccine have arrived in Guyana but priority will be given to persons who got their first dose in April, Health Minister Dr. Frank Anthony said Monday. “We have now been able to get second dose Sputnik V into the country and, as of tomorrow, ...

Last Updated on Monday, 12 July 2021, 10:36 by Denis Chabrol An enforcement officer of the Guyana Revenue Authority was early Monday morning stabbed to death allegedly by the landlady’s son while demanding that he vacate the apartment he is renting. Dead is 24-year old Dwayne Daniel Taitt. Police say he was killed by the landlady’s son, one day after ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 11 July 2021, 20:53 by Denis Chabrol The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) has added 20 more call centre agents, as part of its overall efforts to improve the company’s response to customers’ queries and reports. The new agents graduated last Friday, and the company said the move aims to make it “a customer centric ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 11 July 2021, 15:23 by Denis Chabrol Amid a steep rise in the cost of living, the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) has again requested a meeting to begin wage and salary negotiations for 2020-2021. “It should be noted that there is an astronomically increase in the cost of living and the last salary increase was ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 11 July 2021, 14:53 by Denis Chabrol Police Commissioner, Nigel Hoppie on Sunday issued an instruction presumably to the public relations team  after the media posed questions about the alleged disappearance of part of GYD$3 million reward for information concerning the killing of teenage cousins Joel and Isaiah Henry. At 10:11 AM Sunday, reporter Travis Chase ...

Last Updated on Friday, 9 July 2021, 16:04 by Denis Chabrol Prominent Caribbean Law Professor, Rose-Marie Belle Antoine on Thursday said COVID-19 vaccination could be made compulsory without violating human rights, constitution and the law. “It’s a fairly easy sell for me to accept that mandatory vaccination is constitutionally legitimate and we have good precedent for it since we already ...

Last Updated on Friday, 9 July 2021, 11:18 by Denis Chabrol Chief Elections Officer Keith Lowenfield is asking the High Court to block Elections Commissioners Sase Gunraj and Bibi Shadick from participating in hearing a motion for his immediate dismissal on the grounds that he needs a fair hearing. The pro-People’s Progressive Party (PPP) Election Commissioners have also filed motions ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 8 July 2021, 22:22 by Denis Chabrol Guyanese police on Thursday said they have arrested three men suspected of being involved in burning down the Linden office of the Guyana Elections Commission  (GECOM) last year, and they are looking for a man believed to be the mastermind. “Police investigators are also pursuing an official in Linden ...