Last Updated on Tuesday, 12 July 2022, 0:24 by Denis Chabrol The People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR)-led A Partnership for National Unity, the Alliance For Change and a number of small parties on Monday held talks to begin mapping a strategy to deal with Guyana’s “political crisis”. PNCR General Secretary Geeta Chandan believed that the participation of the Working People’s ...

Last Updated on Monday, 11 July 2022, 23:45 by Denis Chabrol Several Amerindian villages on Monday received two absolute grants and several certificates of land titles as part of government’s efforts to resolve decades-long land demarcation problems Toshao Ralph Hendricks received an absolute grant for the extension of Capoey in Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam), and Toshao Arifa Shabeer received an absolute ...

Last Updated on Monday, 11 July 2022, 22:14 by Denis Chabrol President Irfaan Ali on Monday scoffed at claims that his administration has hijacked the agenda of the National Toshaos Council which is meeting in Georgetown. In clear  reaction to claims that the People’s Progressive Party (PPP)-led government has opted to control the agenda and prevent the outgoing NTC Chairman ...

Last Updated on Monday, 11 July 2022, 7:03 by Denis Chabrol Almost 640 pounds of cocaine were found in bags bearing the marking “King Coca 30” strapped inside a single-engine illegal plane that landed at the Mahdia airstrip in Region 8 (Potaro-Siparuni) on Sunday afternoon, the Guyana Police Force said. Police said the Cessna Skyline plane, which might have come ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 10 July 2022, 22:32 by Denis Chabrol Conflicting accounts emerged Sunday night about how a 17-year old boy was burnt while in police custody, with him saying an investigator lit him afire and the Guyana Police Force stating that the suspect was playing with a lighter. Police said two ranks at the Vigilance Police Station were ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 10 July 2022, 21:17 by Denis Chabrol A cocaine-laden plane,  bearing what appears to  be United States (US) registration markings, on Sunday landed at the Mahdia airstrip after it apparently ran out of fuel, highly-placed sources said. The sources said the pilot and co-pilot, who have been identified as Colombian and Brazilian, were arrested shortly after ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 10 July 2022, 7:38 by Denis Chabrol by Attorney-at-Law Dr Vivian Williams You might be wondering why the fight for political power in Guyana is so rancorous, that it took  almost half a year to declare a winner of the 2020 elections. What is brewing is a fight for control  of enormous oil wealth in a ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 9 July 2022, 21:49 by Denis Chabrol President Irfaan Ali on Saturday asked Saudi Arabia to allocate US$2 billion to potential investments in Guyana, even as that Western Asian nation said it was keenly interested in assisting Guyana to spend some of its oil revenues. “If it is that in the Saudi Investment and Development Fund, ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 9 July 2022, 10:49 by Denis Chabrol Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton has urged supporters to be cautious about protest marches whose aim is to spark off attacks on Indo-Guyanese, in the wake of last month’s assault and robbing of vendors at the Mon Repos Market, East Coast Demerara by a group of persons who marched from ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 9 July 2022, 9:28 by Denis Chabrol Even as the Alliance For Change (AFC) threatens to walk away from its coalition with the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR)-led A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) by year-end, the two political organisations have begun talks. The two sides held a round of talks about five or six weeks ...