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 ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 21 September 2023, 20:36 by Denis Chabrol Maintaining that the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) is the sole agency lawfully mandated to go after ExxonMobil’s audited US$214 million expenses, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday said an investigation would be launched to determine why the Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) went ahead and negotiated a reduction to ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 21 September 2023, 19:30 by Denis Chabrol Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) Aubrey Norton on Thursday evening backtracked on his earlier explicit call for Region Four Chairman, Daniel Seeram to step down and, instead, said the matter should be left in the hands of police investigators. “In my opinion, my choice of language ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 21 September 2023, 16:18 by Denis Chabrol Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), Aubrey Norton said his party would later this year end when its congress would be held. He said that decision was made at the PNCR’s Central Executive Committee meeting on Wednesday. “The party’s Central Executive decided last evening that the matter ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 21 September 2023, 13:59 by Denis Chabrol A City Constable, who allegedly shot a Lance Corporal and her male friend at the Bourda, Regent Street outpost, surrendered Thursday afternoon in the company of a lawyer, well-placed sources said. Sources said Constable Lindon Isaacs also took the weapon that he allegedly used to shoot the duo to ...