Last Updated on Sunday, 31 March 2024, 21:13 by Denis Chabrol The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GGCI), Guyana’s oldest business organisation, has recorded 150 new members in the 2023-2024 financial year, and has recorded 85.6 percent in surplus cash, according to chamber President, Kester Hutson. Mr Hutson told Demerara Waves Online News that that business support organisation has ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 31 March 2024, 19:52 by Denis Chabrol The two Venezuelans, who were allegedly caught in a go-fast boat  with more than 1,181 pounds of cocaine at Vergenoegen, East Bank Essequibo, have been identified and are expected to appear in court later this week, Director the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) James Singh said Sunday. He told Demerara ...

Last Updated on Monday, 1 April 2024, 6:18 by Denis Chabrol Two weeks after Guyana signed a US$23.27 million deal to buy two India-made Dornier aircraft for the Guyana Defence Force (GDF), two India Air Force  transport planes touched down at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport on Sunday with the two planes, sources said. The two Boeing C-17 Globemaster military ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 31 March 2024, 19:15 by Denis Chabrol A United States (US)-based Guyanese farmer, whose local address is at Mahaicony, was arrested Sunday for allegedly being in possession of a firearm and ammunition without being the holder of a firearm licence, and offering a GY$500,000 bribe to a policeman to drop the investigation, police said. Police said ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 31 March 2024, 16:53 by Denis Chabrol By Dr. Randy Persaud, Professor Emeritus I am hesitant in labeling foreign people as colonial or neocolonial without making a case that is substantial in terms of theory and evidence. To stay silent in the face of abuse is a dereliction of duty. Of recent, the assault on Guyana ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 30 March 2024, 15:11 by Denis Chabrol Two weeks after the opposition coalition of A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance F0r Change (APNU+AFC) returned from an outreach to the Rupununi and raised concerns about a severe water shortage, President Irfaan Ali on Friday announced that government was rushing large quantities of cassava to the drought-stricken region. “We ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 30 March 2024, 8:11 by Denis Chabrol Two Venezuelans were Friday arrested in a go-fast boat with more than 1,000 pounds of cocaine and a large quantity of fuel at Vergenoegen, East Bank Essequibo, in a joint operation by the the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit and the Guyana Defence Force (GDF), an official said Saturday. Director of ...

Last Updated on Friday, 29 March 2024, 6:29 by Denis Chabrol The Supreme Court of Judicature is saddened by the passing of the late former Chancellor of the Judiciary, the Honourable Mme. Justice Desiree Bernard, OR, CCH, J, CCJ, Ret’d who died today 28th March, 2024. Justice Bernard was born in Georgetown on 2nd March, 1939. Her education commenced at ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 28 March 2024, 22:28 by Denis Chabrol The United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) and the Guyana government on Thursday remained at loggerheads over the basis for several questions about corruption and governance, with the UN body saying its sources were “credible” and the administration maintaining that it was more about what was “verifiable and factual.” ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 28 March 2024, 21:21 by Denis Chabrol Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday announced that a Commission of Inquiry (COI) into extrajudicial killings between 2002 and 2006 that had been promised by the then coalition administration would be held. “The government will be going ahead with this COI because the UN wants it, Granger wanted it ...