Last Updated on Friday, 22 September 2023, 21:40 by Denis Chabrol The 15-nation Caribbean Community (CARICOM) on Friday said Venezuela’s recent pronouncement on Guyana’s bid round for offshore blocks amounted to a “threat” to use force. CARICOM backed Guyana fully in its quest to develop its natural resources. “The Caribbean Community reiterates its full and unequivocal support for the sovereignty ...

Last Updated on Friday, 22 September 2023, 20:12 by Denis Chabrol Three more former residents of Cane View, Mocha, East Bank Demerara have asked the High Court to declare that government’s demolition of their homes and destruction of their personal property was illegal and that they should be awarded more than GY$250 million in damages as well as title to ...

Last Updated on Friday, 22 September 2023, 16:04 by Denis Chabrol The United Kingdom (UK) branch of Guyana’s governing People’s Progressive Party (PPP) has formally protested the manner in which the host of Good Morning Britain (GMB) treated President Irfaan Ali during a televised interview. According to the formal complaint dispatched to ITV and copied to OFCOM, the UK’s broadcasting ...

Last Updated on Friday, 22 September 2023, 15:17 by Denis Chabrol by GHK Lall Someone was kind enough to share the tape of Guyana’s President Irfaan Ali, on British TV.  The counsel was to focus on the latter end of the recording, which I followed.  It was a rare treat, what I would call Excellency Ali’s shining hour.  He glowed ...

Last Updated on Friday, 22 September 2023, 15:01 by Denis Chabrol The Ministry of Education’s Chief Education Officer, Saddam Hussain said next Monday, September 25, is not a holiday for teachers and students in Georgetown. Mr Hussain admitted that he initially made a mistake on Thursday and sent a circular stating that there would have been a manager’s holiday for ...

Last Updated on Friday, 22 September 2023, 8:18 by Denis Chabrol by GHK Lall So, who is having a memory lapse, who is having a ‘senior moment’, and who is plain outright fabricating what went on in the meeting between officials of the PPP Government and US Congressman’s Hakeem Jeffries’ delegation?  The PPP Government side that inclusion never came up ...

Last Updated on Friday, 22 September 2023, 8:06 by Denis Chabrol Guyana’s opposition plans to complain to United States (US) House Democratic Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and a number of other decision makers in Washington that Afro-Guyanese are facing discrimination, but the government says it last week already debunked those claims in meetings with American elected leaders. Opposition Leader Aubrey ...