Last Updated on Sunday, 24 December 2023, 22:26 by Writer Well-known veteran Guyanese Attorney-at-Law, Senior Counsel Rex McKay died early Thursday morning, according to well-placed sources. He was 95. Mr McKay passed away at 2:30 AM at the Woodlands Hospital, Carmichael Street after a prolonged illness. The Caribbean Court of Justice Academy of Law in October, 2023 listed him among ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 24 December 2023, 22:22 by Writer Charrandass Persaud – the then governing APNU+AFC coalition parliamentarian who set in motion the virtual collapse of the David Granger-led administration by voting for a People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC)-sponsored no-confidence motion- has fallen seriously ill and was Wednesday evacuated to Canada, according to medical sources. One of the sources ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 24 December 2023, 22:16 by Writer New York-based Guyanese, Rickford Burke, who is wanted in Guyana for a series of offences, has been served with a Guyana Police Force summons to attend court in March, 2024. Mr Burke, a known activist against the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC), earlier this week claimed that armed men were ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 24 December 2023, 22:14 by Writer The Georgetown City Council on Wednesday unanimously decided to pay a GY$25,000 bonus to its 550 workers and a 6.5 percent wage and salary increase from January 2024, but they would have to wait until the council gets sufficient money during the first quarter of next year for their 2023 ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 24 December 2023, 22:07 by Writer President Irfaan Ali on Tuesday announced that Guyana has requested the United Kingdom (UK) government to consider mounting a joint lobby to Lloyd’s of London insurance company to reduce its risk assessment of this country’s maritime space due to the border controversy with Venezuela. “Together, we will have to speak ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 24 December 2023, 21:58 by Writer The state-owned Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) has employed 543 new employees at Rose Hall Estate to implement a mechanisation programme as the sugar industry continues to grapple with a labour shortage, Minister of Agriculture Zulfikar Mustapha said Tuesday. He was responding to questions from opposition APNU+AFC parliamentarian, Vinceroy Jordan about ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 20 December 2023, 0:52 by Writer Guyana has paid up all of its dues to the Caribbean’s Regional Security System (RSS) totalling more than GY$300 million, Foreign Minister Hugh Todd said Tuesday during the National Assembly’s consideration of financial papers. Shadow Foreign Minister Amanza Walton-Desir asked the minister to explain why the House needed to approve ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 20 December 2023, 0:18 by Writer (Bloomberg) — One of the world’s most-influential insurance markets added Guyana to its list of the riskiest shipping zones amid an escalating territorial dispute with neighboring Venezuela. The decision announced by Lloyd’s Market Association’s Joint War Committee on Monday applies only to vessels visiting offshore installations in the Guyanese Exclusive ...

Last Updated on Monday, 18 December 2023, 20:26 by Denis Chabrol Guyana’s Court of Appeal on Monday dismissed efforts by the opposition to reinstate an election petition, agreeing with the High Court that the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) had a constitutional right to order a recount of the votes cast in the March, 2020 general and regional elections. Justices of ...

Last Updated on Monday, 18 December 2023, 20:32 by Writer The United Kingdom’s Minister for the Americas and the Caribbean, David Rutley will Monday hold talks with Guyana’s President Irfaan Ali and meet with western nations’ ambassadors here to discuss support for this former British colony, the Foreign Office said. “The UK will continue to work with partners in the ...