Last Updated on Thursday, 11 July 2024, 16:59 by Writer President Irfaan Ali on Wednesday asked the Caribbean Court of Justice’s (CCJ) Academy f0r Law to run specialised continuing education programmes on emerging areas as well as train prosecutors. He issued the call in his address to the opening of the two-day first Legal Conference on Criminal Justice Reform – Advancing ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 11 July 2024, 16:47 by Writer Acting Commissioner of Police, Clifton Hicken on Wednesday dismissed social media posts that a senior police officer attempted to deposit GY$16.5 million into the Guyana Police Cooperative Credit Union. “No it’s not true and I made a release already,” Mr Hicken told Demerara Waves Online News. While he insisted that such ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 10 July 2024, 11:36 by Writer Police on Wednesday said they were investigating an alleged armed robbery committed on a man on James Street, Albouystown, Georgetown. The victim is 28-year-old Hudson Thompson, who resides in Albouystown. He told police he was robbed of a gold and diamond chain valued at GY$2 million. The robbery allegedly occurred ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 10 July 2024, 11:33 by Writer A six-year-old boy was Tuesday night shot to the head by a man who attempted to shoot another man only known as ‘Crab’, the Guyana Police Force said on Wednesday. ‘The child is presently hospitalised, and his condition is listed as serious,” police said. The incident reportedly occurred at about ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 11 July 2024, 17:03 by Writer By GHK Lall I have never seen Bharrat Jagdeo running so scared. Indeed, any leader that has so many clouds and shadows hanging over him would be running scared as the impact of Nigel Hughes’ leadership presence registers. Jagdeo is vulnerable on so many fronts that scared only scratches the ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 10 July 2024, 11:22 by Writer By GHK Lall From the pages of the Holy Bible, we got the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. The names given to them and now etched in hearts all over are Conquest, War, Famine, Death. From the sacred soil of this Motherland, Guyana, I give my fellow Guyanese, the Four ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 10 July 2024, 7:48 by Writer The National Assembly has approved an order to increase the University of Guyana (UG) Council from 26 to 32 members as part of a plan to pass a new law to govern that publicly funded tertiary institution, despite fears by the opposition that government was planning to tighten its political ...