Last Updated on Tuesday, 19 March 2024, 10:43 by Denis Chabrol The Guyana government has told the United Nations Committee on Human Rights that it could not implement Public Disclosure and Whistleblowers laws because the country was not prepared to do so. “We are unable to, at this point, to activate the Public Disclosure and Whistleblower Act because there are ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 19 March 2024, 9:36 by Denis Chabrol The United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) is set to assist Guyana in strengthening its port security that would see the two countries using fingerprints to track down suspects. Under the agreement inked by Minister of Home Affairs, Robeson Benn and US Ambassador to Guyana, Nicole D. Theriot, ...

Last Updated on Monday, 18 March 2024, 22:35 by Denis Chabrol Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton on Sunday promised public servants across Guyana an annual one-month bonus if his coalition of A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) wins next year’s general and regional elections Departing from the APNU+AFC administration’s scrapping of the one-month bonus for members of the Disciplined ...

Last Updated on Monday, 18 March 2024, 20:59 by Denis Chabrol President Irfaan Ali on Monday appealed to people in the Caribbean and Latin America to return to the days of taking home-cooked food to work and school and reduce their dependence on fast foods. “How do we ensure that the next generation just don’t eat but eat food with ...

Last Updated on Monday, 18 March 2024, 19:37 by Denis Chabrol Member of the Guyana Public Service Cooperative Credit Union (GPSCCU), Patrick Mentore has refused to immediately hand over specific figures and other information about the Special General Meeting (SGM) of that financial institution, instead saying that the matter is still before the High Court. “Relative to the requested information, ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 17 March 2024, 20:24 by Denis Chabrol In observance of World Social Work Week 2024 being observed from March 18 – 22, the University of Guyana’s Faculty of Social Sciences and ChildLink Guyana will host the Guyana Social Work Education and Practice Conference from March 19th – 20th, the university said. The conference will be hosted ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 17 March 2024, 19:57 by Denis Chabrol By Dr. Randy Persaud, Professor Emeritus Stabroek News editorial on Babu Jaan (3/17/2024) offers a perfect opportunity for us to dig down into the intellectual and political preferences, as well as the cultural foundations of the Guyanese urban elites. Although the editorial appears to be the work of a ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 17 March 2024, 18:08 by Denis Chabrol A  convicted rapist, who escaped from the Mazaruni Prison one month ago and was the prime suspect in the chopping death of a man and his mother, was Sunday shot dead after he charged at police and soldiers with a cutlass, police said. The Guyana Police Force said Akeem ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 17 March 2024, 8:15 by Denis Chabrol by Retired Rear Admiral Dr Gary Best President Ali missed a great opportunity to be a stellar Guyanese and Caricom leader in support of the Haitian people in true fashion. On the one hand, as Chairman of Caricom, and on the other as Guyana’s Executive President.  Arguably, Caricom’s heralded ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 16 March 2024, 14:20 by Denis Chabrol by GHK Lall President Alistair Routledge has been too long in Guyana.  In Guyanese speak, ‘he tink dat he alone gat sense.’  Mr. Routledge may even believe, like President Jagdeo, that Guyanese aint gat any sense worth talking about.  In fact, President Routledge has gotten so acclimated to Guyanese ...