Last Updated on Thursday, 29 August 2024, 19:44 by Writer Retired Assistant Police Commissioner, Paul Slowe on Thursday deemed as a “smear campaign” the Guyana Police Force’s (GPF’s) claim that he again allegedly violated the Sexual Offences Act against a woman with whom he has a court case. “It’s all part of their smear campaign,” he told Demerara Waves Online ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 29 August 2024, 19:23 by Writer As part of the United States and Guyana’s strong ongoing military-to-military partnership, the U.S. Southern Command conducted a Joint Combined Exercise and Training (JCET), the American Embassy in Guyana said Thursday. “During their time here, the U.S. Southern Command team trained with their Guyana Defence Force counterparts in jungle operations, ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 28 August 2024, 21:44 by Writer There is growing uncertainty about People’s Progressive Party (PPP) General Secretary, Bharrat Jagdeo’s claim that the main opposition People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) owes the Georgetown City Council GY$6.7 billion in rates and taxes. City Mayor, Alfred Mentore said, at his request, the City Treasurer did not find any record ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 28 August 2024, 21:14 by Writer There is growing uncertainty about People’s Progressive Party (PPP) General Secretary, Bharrat Jagdeo’s claim that the main opposition People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) owes the Georgetown City Council GY$6.7 billion in rates and taxes. City Mayor, Alfred Mentore said, at his request, the City Treasurer did not find any record ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 28 August 2024, 20:45 by Writer The reconstructed US$161 million Linden-Soesdyke Highway would include several features aimed at improving road safety along the 72-kilometre thoroughfare which would also cater for massive increase in tonnage, officials said. Public Works Minister Juan Edghill said the first development project being funded by the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) in Guyana, ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 28 August 2024, 20:36 by Writer by GHK Lall I keep learning new things about this country. The new is how devoted it is to what is nasty, ugly, surly, and now stands as the only accepted way for Guyanese to interact with one another. I think it is the Ali-Jagdeo school of communication standard that ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 1 September 2024, 22:31 by Writer By Dr. Randy Persaud, Professor Emeritus, American University, Washington DC. “Anne Applebaum is an acerbic right-wing journalist…” (Susan Watkins, New Left Review, 126, Nov./Dec. 2020). Good writers always state their central arguments as directly as possible, and with the greatest clarity. The more you get away from clarity, the more ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 27 August 2024, 22:55 by Writer A Partnership for National Unity (APNU)-controlled Georgetown City Council has approved the reduction of rates and taxes to a mere 25 percent of the valuated rate, at a time when the cash-strapped municipality could not provide many of its core services, officials said Tuesday. Several People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 27 August 2024, 21:42 by Writer President Irfaan Ali on Tuesday accused the Alliance For Change (AFC) of setting the stage to scuttle the construction of a new high-span bridge across the Berbice River, a day after that party called on government to produce a feasibility study and Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA). Dr Ali ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 27 August 2024, 19:03 by Writer The University of Guyana (UG) notes with deepest sadness the passing of our dearest former lecturer, author, researcher, benefactor, and recipient of an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters, Ameena Gafoor. To paraphrase the words written and read by the University’s Official Master Orator, Al Creighton, at the Conferral Ceremony ...