Last Updated on Tuesday, 23 July 2024, 18:17 by Writer Two Guyana Defence Force (GDF) soldiers have been denied their pre-trial liberty and remanded to prison after they pleaded not guilty to a charge of being in possession of 154 pounds of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking, police said Tuesday. Soldiers Clovis Sam, 31, of Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown and ...
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Preventing new infections, treatment, human rights protection keys to ending Caribbean AIDS epidemic – UNAIDS report
Last Updated on Tuesday, 23 July 2024, 18:13 by Writer Kingston, 22 July 2024—A new report released today by UNAIDS shows the world is at a critical moment that will determine whether world leaders meet their commitment to end AIDS as a public health threat by 2030. The report, ‘The Urgency of Now: AIDS at a Crossroads’, brings together new data and case studies which demonstrate that the decisions and policy choices taken ...
Read More »Guyana widening access to HIV treatment to ease discrimination -Health Minister
Last Updated on Tuesday, 23 July 2024, 18:18 by Writer Health Minister Dr Frank Anthony on Tuesday announced that Guyana has embarked on a plan to make HIV (Human Immuno-deficiency Virus) treatment widely available at all health facilities in order to weed out fears of stigma and discrimination by infected persons going to special treatment centres. “One of the things ...
Read More »Nothing wrong with SOCU only investigating alleged police force corruption -Private Sector Commission
Last Updated on Tuesday, 23 July 2024, 17:54 by Writer The Private Sector Commission (PSC) on Tuesday said it had no problem with the Guyana Police Force’s (GPF) Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) investigating alleged corruption in that law enforcement agency, despite calls in other quarters for an independent probe. “SOCU was designed, in 0ur view, to be that source ...
Read More »7th Queen’s College Summer Math Institute is on
Last Updated on Monday, 22 July 2024, 20:27 by Writer The Queen’s College of Guyana Alumni Association (NY), Inc. (QCAANY) is hosting its 7th Queen’s College Summer Math Institute (QCSMI) from July 22nd, 2024 to July 31st, 2024, at the Queen’s College Campus in Georgetown, Guyana. The QCSMI will run Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., with ...
Read More »Essequibo Coast taxi driver charged with assaulting police
Last Updated on Monday, 22 July 2024, 18:58 by Writer A taxi driver of Onderneeming/Sand Pit, Essequibo Coast is on court bail after he pleaded not guilty to assaulting a peace officer and several other related offences, the Guyana Police Force (GPF) said on Monday. Jitendra Baljodah, 35, was slapped with the four charges for the offences he allegedly committed ...
Read More »Georgetown Chamber of Commerce objects to police force solely investigating itself for corruption
Last Updated on Monday, 22 July 2024, 18:52 by Writer The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) on Monday registered its concern that the Guyana Police Force (GPF) was investigating alleged corruption in that law enforcement agency, and recommended that other agencies be involved in an independent probe. GCCI President, Kester Hutson told Demerara Waves Online News that in ...
Read More »OPINION: Biden out, Trump in, Jagdeo lingering
Last Updated on Sunday, 21 July 2024, 19:44 by Writer by GHK Lall President Joe Biden should go gracefully to pasture. If he is as is today, there is no telling how he will be a year from now. The odds of better are remote to nonexistent, even staying the same are uphill. Former president Donald Trump was hanging by ...
Read More »OPINION: Guyanese impostors, Exxon’s assassins
Last Updated on Sunday, 21 July 2024, 19:30 by Writer by GHK Lall Whenever America plants its flag in underdeveloped countries, it usually succeeds in recruiting a special kind of local, starting with a leader, to push their program. Some of the locals are detectable immediately, others take time. When they are found out, realization comes about how low some ...
Read More »PNCR, AFC downplay vote-splitting to PPP’s advantage
Last Updated on Sunday, 21 July 2024, 19:02 by Writer The People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) and the Alliance For Change (AFC) have dismissed the likelihood that they could split the Afro-Guyanese voting block which would result in the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) retaining power at next year’s general and regional elections. “I’m not worried at splitting of votes. ...
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