Last Updated on Monday, 2 August 2021, 22:38 by Denis Chabrol Opposition Leader Joseph Harmon on Monday said he was prepared to hold constitutionally required consultations with President Irfaan Ali on the appointment of a substantive Chancellor of the Judiciary and Chief Justice. “I wish to categorically state, once again, that I am ready, willing and able to engage in ...

Last Updated on Monday, 2 August 2021, 16:52 by Denis Chabrol The Central Islamic Organisation of Guyana (CIOG) on Monday gave a ringing endorsement of President Ali’s performance on the occasion of his one year in office and criticised the opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) for attempting to hold on to power. “The CIOG reiterates its ...

Last Updated on Monday, 2 August 2021, 16:14 by Denis Chabrol More than $900,000 worth of cellular phones and cash have been stolen from six relatives who were staying at a wedding house at La Union, West Coast Demerara on Sunday, August 1, the Guyana Police Force said. Police say two men and a woman have since been arrested, after ...

Last Updated on Monday, 2 August 2021, 14:01 by Denis Chabrol President Irfaan Ali on Monday said that the confirmation of the Chancellor and the Chief Justice depends on the Opposition Leader Joseph Harmon recognising his government as legitimate. “I am sure Harmon definitively knows who also is the Leader of the Opposition and who is the President so the ...

Last Updated on Monday, 2 August 2021, 13:21 by Denis Chabrol President Irfaan Ali  on Monday  announced that public servants would before year-end get retroactive salary increases, even as threw a cloud of uncertainty over the possibility of negotiations with the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU). “Let me assure you that the public servants will receive salary increases before the ...

BY GHK LALL As we approach the one-year milepost of His Excellency, President Dr. Mohamed Irfan Ali’s installation in office, I cut through the national forest of political propaganda and PR fluff, and measure the record of the man and leader using six yardsticks.  In no particular order, they are: unity, transparency, accountability, economy, COVID-19 credibility, and floodwater gravity.  The ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 1 August 2021, 13:00 by Denis Chabrol by GHK Lall It was a long-awaited moment in endless time.  An eternity of time that only knew an extended uninterrupted age of harshness and savageness, and of bitterness and anguish, that is of what only man can do to man.  It is of how man can be to ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 1 August 2021, 12:04 by Denis Chabrol A prisoner, who escaped from the Lusignan Prison early Saturday morning, was recaptured several hours later, police said. Police say 38-year old Quincy Clarke  was arrested on Callendar Street, Albouystown, Georgetown. He was nabbed at about 6:50  Saturday night by policemen and later handed over to officers of the ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 1 August 2021, 12:02 by Denis Chabrol A man has been arrested in connection with a robbery committed on a fisherman at Unity Junction, East Coast Demerara. Police say they have arrested one of the suspects known as ‘Thick Slice” and they are searching for two other men. The robbery was committed at about 5 O’clock  ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 1 August 2021, 11:57 by Denis Chabrol Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), David Granger on Sunday- African Emancipation Day- said race relations was Guyana’s major problem rather than the burgeoning oil sector. “Guyana’s big problem is the problem of social cohesion. You may think that there are other problems- oil and the economy  ...