Last Updated on Wednesday, 12 July 2023, 14:06 by Denis Chabrol Faced with a serious shortage of nurses in the public health system, President Irfaan Ali on Wednesday announced that government was turning to Cuba for an emergency supply of that category of health workers while Guyana accelerates the training of surplus nurses. “We are in discussion now, for example, ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 12 July 2023, 12:32 by Denis Chabrol President Irfaan Ali on Wednesday announced that the Public Service Commisssion (PSC) would by this weekend be fully constituted, a move that would pave the way for the activation of the Judicial Service Commission (JSC). “Our intention is to have all the members of the Public Service Commission sworn ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 11 July 2023, 18:22 by Denis Chabrol A Guyanese gold miner is wanted by Brazilian Federal Police for allegedly being involved in laundering at least US$16.9 million (R$80 million) from illegal gold sales through shell companies in Brazil, according to reports in the neighbouring South American nation. Head of the Guyana Police Force’s Special Organised Crime ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 11 July 2023, 17:51 by Denis Chabrol The Caribbean Heart Institute’s (CHI) team led by CEO and Guyanese born heart surgeon Dr. Gary Stephens, successfully conducted an open-heart surgery utilising cow tissue to reconstruct a patient’s heart, the institution said Tuesday. “This procedure is the first-ever open heart surgery of its kind, to be performed in ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 11 July 2023, 16:25 by Denis Chabrol Georgetown’s Mayor-elect, Alfred Mentore has promised to govern the crisis-plagued City inclusively but shied away from saying why the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) was sidelined from playing major roles in the Council. Referring to allegations by Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on the 2023 Local Government Elections campaign that ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 11 July 2023, 15:00 by Denis Chabrol Guyana is still awaiting a reply from the United States Department of Agriculture to several submissions aimed at having that North American country lift an almost six-year old ban on catfish, according to Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha. With Guyana having recently updated its previous submission, he said the Ministry ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 11 July 2023, 8:30 by Denis Chabrol By GHK Lall I sense trouble in paradise.  Considering the ripples of unease in the PNC, it would be more on the money to say that there is possibly looming trouble in purgatory.  Now the call circulating (again) is for a PNC gathering.  To this call, there has been ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 11 July 2023, 7:39 by Denis Chabrol Attorney-at-Law Ashton Chase, the last founder-member of the Political Affairs Committee (PAC), the precursor organisation of Guyana’s first mass-based political organisation- People’s Progressive Party (PPP)- died early Tuesday morning, party officials said. He was 95 years old. “General Secretary Bharrat Jagdeo expresses sincere condolences on behalf of himself and ...

Last Updated on Monday, 10 July 2023, 22:38 by Denis Chabrol The bipartisan parliamentary Public Accounts Committee on Monday said the Guyana Police Force breached the Procurement Act by paying all of the GY$123.344 million to the same supplier for four contracts within one month of the award although none of the items had been delivered. “That was a breach ...

Last Updated on Monday, 10 July 2023, 17:49 by Denis Chabrol In the wake of a government minister’s alleged rape of a 16-year old Amerindian ancestry, the Amerindian People’s Association (APA) wants the Amerindian Act to be amended to give communities the right to refuse entry of unsavoury government officials. APA’s Governance and Rights Coordinator, Laura George said her organisation ...