Last Updated on Wednesday, 15 March 2023, 21:10 by Denis Chabrol Three Venezuelans on Wednesday pleaded guilty to armed robbery under the Hijacking and Piracy Act and were remanded to prison until next week when they would be sentenced, police said. Those charged are 23-year old Jose Beria, 21-year old Aleyandio Valenzuela and 23-year old Renial Valenzuela all of Capio, ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 15 March 2023, 20:40 by Denis Chabrol Guyana’s Ministry of Finance on Wednesday rubbished claims by the Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) that the US$34.5 million contract awarded to a German company to implement high-tech Residency and Work Permit cards flouted this country’s procurement laws. In a statement that questioned overwhelmingly the GHRA’s credibility, the Finance ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 15 March 2023, 6:13 by Denis Chabrol The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) on Tuesday scolded four People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) members for publicly criticising Tacuma Ogunseye and Rhonda Layne, effectively encouraging the governing People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) to prosecute them for crimes. “What our sister and brothers on the other side did was to ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 14 March 2023, 21:06 by Denis Chabrol Government will pass new legislation over the next eight months to protect personal data and govern the registration of Guyanese and foreign workers before they are issued Guyana Resident and Work Permit cards, Attorney General Anil Nandlall said Tuesday. He also said that in addition to Data Protection legislation ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 14 March 2023, 17:11 by Denis Chabrol The Amalgamated Transport & General Cooperative Credit Union (AT&GC) appeared to have invested GY$40 million in 50 acres of land for housing but Labour Minister Joseph Hamilton said the purportedly leased land could not be found. The leased land, he said, is presumably located somewhere in Diamond but the ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 14 March 2023, 14:35 by Denis Chabrol Three days after a bulldozer toppled into a bauxite mining pit at BOSAI’s East Montgomery Mine in Linden, the body of the operator was Tuesday afternoon retrieved, Minister of Labour Joseph Hamilton said. Missing was 59-year old Neptrid Hercules. The Minister told Demerara Waves Online News that the bulldozer ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 14 March 2023, 12:24 by Denis Chabrol Numerous teachers of Fort Wellington Secondary School, backed by the Guyana Teachers Union, on Tuesday protested the assault of one of their colleagues by several students and a guardian,  union President Mark Lyte said. “We need justice”, “We need justice”, “I need justice”, Enough is enough” were among the ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 12 March 2023, 7:33 by Denis Chabrol by GHK Lall This is my position: Tacuma Ogunseye went too far.  He should know that without any objection from a nobody like me.  What he said, insinuated, or tabled distracted from his call.  I disagree with him, and that call that encircles the Joint Services, a huge section ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 12 March 2023, 7:14 by Denis Chabrol Several elected officials from the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR)-dominated A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) on Saturday said they did not endorse offensive remarks about Indo-Guyanese at a Working People’s Alliance (WPA) public meeting. And a former PNCR General Secretary, Geeta Chandan-Edmond distanced herself from statements by WPA ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 11 March 2023, 18:37 by Denis Chabrol The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) on Saturday, in a defiant stance, said the government was planning to arrest its executive member Tacuma Ogunseye for expecting the predominantly Afro-Guyanese security forces would dislodge the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) if there is a wave of protests. “The AG’s implicit and ...