Last Updated on Sunday, 26 December 2021, 6:55 by Writer Former University of Guyana Vice Chancellor, Professor Professor Joycelynne Eleanor Loncke died on Saturday at the St Joseph’s Mercy Hospital. The PNCR provided no details about the circumstances of her passing, but hailed her contribution to the fields of education and music. Dr. Loncke was the last surviving child of ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 25 December 2021, 14:18 by Denis Chabrol People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) Leader, Aubrey Norton said his party was gearing up to woo support from Indo-Guyanese and Amerindians to his traditionally mainly Afro-Guyanese political party. He told Demerara Waves Online News/ News-Talk Radio Guyana 103. 1 FM that as part of his party mass organisation campaign, ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 25 December 2021, 13:33 by Denis Chabrol A Beharry Group of Companies Training Officer, who is also bodyguard, was Friday night shot dead in Albouystown, Georgetown and his service handgun and jewellery were stolen, police. Dead is 36-year old Garfield Newton who lived on 545 Mandela Avenue, Georgetown. The martial arts community was almost immediately plunged ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 25 December 2021, 11:45 by Denis Chabrol President Irfaan Ali on Saturday- Christmas Day- said government would be working out policies to ease the impact of  rising global prices as a result of a slowdown in supply chain operations because of the coronavirus pandemic. “The outlook for 2022 is exciting but will not be without challenges ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 25 December 2021, 11:21 by Denis Chabrol Local Government Minister Nigel Dharamlall continues to criticise Chancellor of the Judiciary, Yonette Cummings and Justice of Appeal Dawn Gregory after they ruled that the Guyana Court of Appeal could hear an appeal on the dismissal of an opposition election petition. Mr. Dharamlall’s latest criticism of the Justices of ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 23 December 2021, 17:20 by Denis Chabrol By GHK Lall For those Guyanese who were searching long and hard for a satisfying Christmas gift, they just got one.  It is a strange one, indeed, as gifts are concerned, but one which should have lasting meaning and still greater benefits, if what was said comes to pass, ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 22 December 2021, 17:20 by Denis Chabrol President Irfaan Ali on Wednesday announced that police and soldiers would be joining hands with the business community in a massive clean-up of Georgetown in the coming weeks. He made the announcement during an address at a Christmas Luncheon at the Guyana Defence Force’s headquarters, Base Camp Ayanganna, he ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 22 December 2021, 16:21 by Denis Chabrol President Irfaan Ali on Wednesday announced that members of the Guyana Defence Force and other Joint Services would get a one-month tax free salary as a bonus, even as he took thinly veiled swipe at the then APNU+AFC administration for scrapping it over the past five years. “For those ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 22 December 2021, 15:11 by Denis Chabrol In the wake of concerns by the Guyana Bar Association (GBA), Local Government Minister Nigel Dharamlall Wednesday afternoon withdrew his call for the Chancellor of the Judiciary Yonette Cummings and Justice of Appeal Dawn Gregory to be removed because he thinks their election petition-related judgement and another decision are ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 22 December 2021, 12:46 by Denis Chabrol Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), Aubrey Norton on Wednesday held firmly to his position that the Private Sector Commission (PSC) is politically biased. “Unfortunately, this wide concept of the private sector has been reduced to the Private Sector Commission which is not at all reflective of ...