Last Updated on Wednesday, 6 September 2023, 9:08 by Denis Chabrol By Dr. Randolph Persaud, Professor Emeritus, American University, Washington DC The Thursday press conferences by Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo are becoming a sort of media feature of the week for many people. These press conferences alternate between PPP headquarters at Freedom House, and the Office of the President. At the ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 5 September 2023, 21:37 by Denis Chabrol Hours after the Guyana Court of Appeal paved the way for the High Court to decide on the amount of damages that prominent Guyanese politician Bharrat Jagdeo has to pay for defaming former Housing Minister Annette Ferguson, he has moved to the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) for the ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 5 September 2023, 18:09 by Denis Chabrol President Irfaan Ali on Tuesday announced that in the coming weeks an emergency response strategy would be unveiled to address unsatisfactory performance in Mathematics. Addressing the opening of the Victoria Lily Primary School at Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo, he said the Ministry of Education would soon add compulsory teaching ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 5 September 2023, 17:31 by Denis Chabrol The bodies of two workers of St Mary’s Quarry were Tuesday morning found floating in the Essequibo River, hours after the boat they were travelling in was found adrift, the Guyana Police Force said. They are Vijai Lallmoni and Solendra Bookmohan who were identified by their wives Rozana Lallmoni ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 5 September 2023, 8:09 by Writer The much-vaunted national clean-up turned out to be a disgraceful damp squib for many parts of Georgetown where the citizenry, businessowners and visitors alike cry out for that elusive long-lasting solution to the sanitation and drainage problems. The exercise on September 2, 2023 demonstrated either a cosmetic sweep-up, a failed ...

Last Updated on Monday, 4 September 2023, 16:03 by Denis Chabrol by GHK Lall No!  Why is it that senior Americans fail to understand that the PPP does not need America anymore?  There was a time that America and its swarming presence had its uses.  Well, apparently not anymore, and this is regardless of how one looks at the rather ...

Last Updated on Monday, 4 September 2023, 15:57 by Denis Chabrol Two men, who allegedly robbed a supermarket at Lusignan, East Coast Demerara were Monday arraigned on a charge of robbery under arms and were granted bail, police said. The accused are 26-year old Jamal Seymour, a carpenter of Lot 176 Campbell and Sussex Street, Albouystown, Georgetown and 29-year old ...

Last Updated on Monday, 4 September 2023, 15:41 by Denis Chabrol The Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFTAF) on Monday began a nine-day evaluation of Guyana’s readiness to fight money laundering, and the financing of terrorism, nuclear, chemical or biological weapons. The 4th Round Mutual Evaluation of Guyana’s Anti-money Laundering/Countering the Financing of Terrorism/Countering Proliferation Financing (AML/CFT/CPF) regime is part ...

Last Updated on Monday, 4 September 2023, 14:35 by Denis Chabrol A Guyanese law firm plans to conduct a survey here and in the wider Caribbean to ascertain how many persons have been convicted wrongfully largely due to the absence of forensic science, Attorney-at-Law Dr Dexter Todd said. “We will, as a firm, commit to having that survey so that ...

Last Updated on Monday, 4 September 2023, 7:11 by Denis Chabrol Dr. Nigel Westmaas It is a remarkable display of duplicity and contortionism to pass judgment on the racial, social, and ideological composition of specific political parties, social organizations, and individuals (along with the strange preoccupation with groups they consider small, irrelevant or dead) in Guyana without subjecting the same ...