Last Updated on Sunday, 29 October 2023, 14:03 by Denis Chabrol by GHK Lall A warm welcome is extended to American Plenipotentiary Extraordinary and Ambassador to Guyana, Her Excellency, Nicole D. Theriot.  I am positive that, given her Louisiana roots, spicy Guyanese food should make Ambassador Theriot feel right at home.  Cajun country, this delightful tropical paradise and oil Shangri-la ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 29 October 2023, 13:51 by Denis Chabrol By Dr Randy Persaud, Professor Emeritus I am delighted to take this opportunity to welcome the new United States Ambassador to Guyana, Her Excellency Nicole D. Theriot. Ambassador Theriot, you have already compiled a distinguished record of public international service on behalf of the American government and people, and ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 29 October 2023, 11:14 by Denis Chabrol Three persons were early Sunday morning arrested for allegedly attempting to scam a number of Automatic Teller Machines (ATM), police said. The Guyana Police Force said at about 12:15 Sunday morning detectives from its Criminal Investigations Department (CID) Headquarters arrested the woman and two men who scammers who were ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 28 October 2023, 20:00 by Denis Chabrol Georgetown Mayor, Alfred Mentore on Saturday threatened to take Central government to court for blocking an amnesty that the municipality had hoped to use to raise funds to pay off income tax debts to the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA). He said the City Council would first discuss the matter ...

Last Updated on Friday, 27 October 2023, 21:45 by Denis Chabrol President Irfaan Ali on Friday night travelled to the Guyanese county of Essequibo and sent a clear message to Venezuela that his country w0uld not surrender a “square inch” of territory to neighbouring Venezuela and said he was confident the security forces would defend the country. “The government and ...

Last Updated on Friday, 27 October 2023, 16:06 by Denis Chabrol The 65 parliamentarians were Friday informed that the National Assembly would be meeting in another seven days to consider a motion on Venezuela’s increasingly aggressive claim to Guyana’s Essequibo County. Clerk of the National Assembly, Sherlock Isaacs dispatched a letter to lawmakers informing them that the House would be ...

Last Updated on Friday, 27 October 2023, 16:31 by Denis Chabrol Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) on Friday announced a significant enhancement to its medical services by providing free knee and hip replacement surgeries, including revision procedures, free of cost to patients. The GPHC said following a proactive proposal from the hospital management to the Board of Directors, the decision ...

Last Updated on Friday, 27 October 2023, 6:42 by Denis Chabrol Venezuela has urged the 15-nation Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to arrange talks with Guyana on settling the territorial controversy over the Essequibo Region peacefully outside the International Court of Justice (ICJ). “The position of the Caribbean Community must be to promote and facilitate a direct dialogue between the parties, which ...

Last Updated on Friday, 27 October 2023, 5:42 by Denis Chabrol Attorney General Anil Nandlall on Thursday called on the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) to condemn Venezuela’s moves to annex Essequibo through a referendum on December 3 Addressing the 147th meeting of the IPU General Assembly in Luanda, Angola under the theme “Parliamentary Action for Peace, Justice and Strongs Institutions” pursuant ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 26 October 2023, 19:05 by Denis Chabrol The Ministry of Natural Resources has deducted 15 days’ pay from the salary of Senior Petroleum Coordinator, Gopnauth ‘Bobby’ Gossai after internal probe found that he engaged ExxonMobil without authorisation in the reduction of US$214 million in the cost bank of an audit of Stabroek Block expenses from 1999-2017. ...