Last Updated on Thursday, 14 March 2024, 15:44 by Denis Chabrol by GHK Lall SN’s two lead captions of Monday March 11th paired Excellencies Ali and Jagdeo baring their teeth and talons at prospective parties and their personnel gearing up for the late 2025 elections.  It promises to be a humdinger, a real whatchamacallit.  President Ali went low: motives.  The ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 13 March 2024, 15:14 by Denis Chabrol President Irfaan Ali on Wednesday announced that the publicly-owned University of Guyana (UG) would be the seat of the National Defence Institute (NDI) to play a major role in Caribbean security, even as he urged that the Caribbean Examinations Council be asked to offer a security subject. “This partnership ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 13 March 2024, 10:03 by Denis Chabrol A police constable has been placed under close arrest for shooting and killing his friend, the Guyana Police Force said Wednesday. Police confirmed that Sergeant Alex Vaughn waa shot dead on Tuesday, March 12, 2024. “A Police Constable is under close arrest assisting with the investigation, based on preliminary ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 13 March 2024, 15:16 by Denis Chabrol The University of Guyana (UG) on Wednesday received the prestigious 2023 Perry Award for Excellence in Security and Defense Education. The award was be conferred by the William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies. This seminal award acknowledges UG’s significant contributions to developing future leaders equipped to address ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 12 March 2024, 12:05 by Denis Chabrol The Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) on Tuesday said that pay negotiations with the Ministry of Education collapsed after government refused to consider the 2019-2023 proposed multi-year agreement. “Talks have collapsed because , as it is, there is no plan for a future meeting,” GTU President Dr Mark Lyte said. ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 12 March 2024, 4:29 by Denis Chabrol The Caribbean Community (CARICOM), under the chairmanship of Guyana, early Tuesday announced that Haiti’s Prime Minister Dr Ariel Henry has agreed to resign after an already brokered transitional presidential council, with no ties to criminal activity, has been established. “The transitional presidential council will hold the relevant and possible ...

Last Updated on Monday, 11 March 2024, 17:24 by Denis Chabrol By GHK Lall Guyana’s archbishop of straight talk, fair play, and telling it as it is, Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo, is up to his usual sanctimonious self again. Guyanese must learn to ‘temper’ their expectations relative to their oil riches. What they get, how much they are going to get, ...

Last Updated on Monday, 11 March 2024, 10:17 by Denis Chabrol GTT, in partnership with WANSAT, has successfully backhauled cellular traffic from the hinterland to Georgetown via an international satellite and fibre connection, the phone company said Monday. The project is being managed entirely from WANSAT’s Network Operations Centre (NOC) in Georgetown and is a first implementation of its kind ...

Last Updated on Monday, 11 March 2024, 7:33 by Denis Chabrol Amid persistent calls by sections of Guyanese for government to use some of the oil earnings to pay increased wages and salaries, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Sunday sought to calm expectations that the country has a huge chunk of money pouring into the economy to do so. “How ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 10 March 2024, 21:18 by Denis Chabrol Although the Ministry of Education has publicly ruled out negotiating a 2019-2023 salary increase, the Guyana Teachers’ Union says it expects a counter-proposal when the two sides meet again on Tuesday. “When we go back to the meeting on Tuesday, our expectation is that government will bring a position ...