Last Updated on Tuesday, 9 November 2021, 11:31 by Denis Chabrol Seven staff members of the Georgetown City Council’s Treasurer’s Department have been fired for alleged gross misconduct. The Local Government Commission says the decision was made unanimously to summarily dismiss the workers, following an internal probe while they had been sent on leave. “At the conclusion of the investigation, ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 9 November 2021, 10:23 by Denis Chabrol by Clement Rohee The Symposium on Police Integrity held recently to discuss integrity in policing raises a number of questions. The fundamental question has to do with the concept of integrity and it’s application to extant institutional and constitutional arrangements in Guyana. First on the question of integrity; According ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 9 November 2021, 7:37 by Denis Chabrol Wide-ranging long-term studies on suicide will be conducted to determine the major risk factors for suicide in Guyana which has one of the highest rates worldwide, according Professor Christina Hoven at Columbia University. She told the opening of the Guyana Mental Health and Well-Being Conference that the study by ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 7 November 2021, 22:36 by Denis Chabrol Guyanese doctors and ultimately patients are poised to benefit from specialised training and health sector research, under an accord between the Ministry of Health and Canada’s Mc Master University, Health Minister Dr. Frank Anthony said. “It is a big deal in terms of post graduate training for doctors. I ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 7 November 2021, 21:41 by Denis Chabrol Former House Speaker, Senior Counsel Ralph Ramkarran on Sunday urged government to swiftly establish the Judicial Service Commission and that steps be taken to appoint more High Court judges and increase the required number of judges  for the Court of Appeal in an effort to deal with the backlog ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 7 November 2021, 14:55 by Denis Chabrol by Abu Bakr It is with great concern that I read  some days ago that VP Jagdeo has been considering the need for immigration to satisfy our employment deficit as oil money flows in to finance infrastructure and other work. It is a conditionto which I have been giving ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 6 November 2021, 13:21 by Denis Chabrol The Chief Elections Officer of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) could be fined GY$10 million and jailed for 10 years if he or she posts a false statement of poll on the commission’s website, according to wide-ranging amendments to the Representation of the People Act (RoPA). “The objective of ...

Last Updated on Friday, 5 November 2021, 22:15 by Denis Chabrol LIAT (1974) Limited would have to show that it would be feasible to serve the Guyana route before fresh approval is granted to fly to this southern Caribbean Community (CARICOM) mainland nation, but would not be blocked to protect InterCaribbean Airways, Aviation Minister Juan Edghill said Friday. “No, no, ...

Last Updated on Friday, 5 November 2021, 21:26 by Denis Chabrol Guyana’s emerging oil and gas sector is expected to be a booster for  operations of the Turks and Caicos Islands-based InterCaribbean Airways which is set to  provide 12 weekly round-trip flights from Guyana to Barbados early next month, Aviation Minister Juan Edghill said Friday. “ExxonMobil was chartering flights to ...

Last Updated on Friday, 5 November 2021, 10:23 by Denis Chabrol The suspect in the killing of Dr. Colin Roach at his medical practice is taxi driver and bartender, police said. Head of the Criminal Investigations Department of the Guyana Police Force, Senior Superintendent Wendell Blanhum said Hilton Franklin was “cooperating” with investigators. Police said Franklin was arrested at about ...