Last Updated on Sunday, 31 December 2023, 13:13 by Denis Chabrol By Dr. Randy Persaud, Professor Emeritus The world knows Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo as a brilliant economist. Even those who do not like his politics acknowledge that the General Secretary of the PPP, who is also the current Vice President, has mastered the intricacies of macro-economic management. Party supporters and ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 31 December 2023, 13:08 by Denis Chabrol by Retired Rear Admiral Dr Gary Best Nothing Bharrat Jagdeo said, as General Secretary of the PPP/c, at his last press  conference, for 2023 had anything remotely relevant to the extant question I raised  in the Opinion piece of 24th December 2023, published by Demerara Waves, which was, did ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 31 December 2023, 12:57 by Denis Chabrol A female vendor of the Parika Facade, East Bank Essequibo was early Sunday morning allegedly beaten to death by her husband who has since been arrested, the Guyana Police Force said. The dead woman has been identified as 25-year old Parbattie Amanda Persaud and the alleged perpetrator is 39-year ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 31 December 2023, 11:05 by Denis Chabrol A vendor of D’urban Backlands Squatting Area, Georgetown was shot and assaulted by two of three men who turned up at his home late last week, police said. The motive for the attack on 31-year-old Quason Leacock was not known, but the man told investigators that one of the ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 31 December 2023, 10:54 by Denis Chabrol A 56-year-old man of Wismar, Linden was Saturday afternoon chopped to death but not before slashing his brothers-in-law several times after they went to rescue their sister and her children from their home. the Guyana Police Force said Sunday. Dead is John Jones of Block 22 Squatting Area, Wismar. ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 31 December 2023, 13:10 by Denis Chabrol A senior Guyana Chronicle editorial staff member has been sent on leave as police on Saturday continued their investigation into sexual misconduct allegedly committed on a female member of the editorial department. “The male employee was immediately sent on administrative leave pending the outcome of the police investigation,” the ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 30 December 2023, 9:22 by Denis Chabrol Venezuela’s combined opposition, Democratic Unitary Platform, early Saturday reiterated its position that the Venezuela-Guyana border controversy should be settled by the International Court of Justice (ICJ), even as it strenuously objected to the presence of a British warship in the waters of this former British colony. “From the Democratic ...

Last Updated on Friday, 29 December 2023, 22:44 by Denis Chabrol Even as Brazil on Friday registered its objection to the British warship, HMS Trent, in Guyana’s waters, a senior government official said his country would determine what it does with its territory. “Only GUYANA will determine what Guyana does in its territorial land, air and sea spaces in accordance ...

Last Updated on Friday, 29 December 2023, 19:06 by Denis Chabrol The contractor that is rehabilitating Cemetery Road, Georgetown could be fired next month if he does not complete the more than one-year long works on that north-south thoroughfare, Public Works Minister Juan Edghill said Friday. “The contractor has received a revised deadline of January 2024 to complete this road ...

Last Updated on Friday, 29 December 2023, 18:32 by Denis Chabrol A 41-year-old man was Friday arraigned for assaulting his now ex-partner at his Wortmanville, Georgetown home and was granted GY$20,000 bail. Magistrate Dylon Bess also ordered the accused, Charles Kurleigh Louis of 39 Norton Street to return to court on February 2, 2024 for statements. He is charged with assaulting ...