Last Updated on Monday, 12 August 2024, 22:52 by Writer by GHK Lall I like it. As a Guyanese, how can I not like Guyana as the ‘new Qatar’. From Guyana being the ‘next Dubai to the ‘new Qatar’ certainly has the sound of music to it. But to be either, I must warn that it is not a frolic ...

Last Updated on Monday, 12 August 2024, 22:14 by Writer Police have discovered an AK-47 assault rifle and a large sum of foreign currency and Guyanese dollars allegedly in possession by a businessman at his home at Eccles, East Bank Demerara, the Guyana Police Force said Monday. Arrested at about 6:25 p.m. was 42-year-old Weston Pickering of Lot 2 Somerset ...

Last Updated on Monday, 12 August 2024, 22:37 by Denis Chabrol asks FBI to prosecute him for false report Burke demands that government produce the evidence The Guyana government has asked the United States (US) for assistance to institute a series of charges in both countries against New York-based Guyanese political activist, Rickford Burke for several offences he has allegedly ...

Last Updated on Monday, 12 August 2024, 20:14 by Writer Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member-nations would have to thrash out their different positions on Venezuela, as the six members of the sub-regional Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) have come out in support of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro whose re-election has been condemned at home and abroad. President of the United Nations ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 11 August 2024, 22:07 by Writer The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) is not ruling out coalescing with other political parties to contest the 2025 general and regional elections, but will insist on a tight agreement that must include poverty eradication, rebalancing of wealth distribution and constitutionally entrenched power sharing, co-leader Dr David Hinds said at the ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 11 August 2024, 21:44 by Writer The planned signing of an agreement for increased teachers’ salaries on Monday hangs in the balance because the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) would have the final say earlier in the day, an official indicated on Sunday. “Let’s see where it goes by tomorrow (Monday),” GTU President Dr Mark Lyte told ...

By Dr. Randy Persaud, Professor Emeritus There have been recent calls for a consensus-based national development plan. In my view, two versions of consensus warrant attention in the current conjuncture. The first, which I shall call constructive consensus, is based on exchange of substantive ideas that yield positive and measurable outcomes. This form of consensus involves balanced contributions from all ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 10 August 2024, 21:10 by Writer by GHK Lall The strike of public school teachers has torn another gaping hole in the fabric of Guyana. The ancient tug-of-war between politics and clean purposes, race and fairness, has been given yet another lease on life. A distressing local existence is what Guyanese have always known. Teachers have ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 10 August 2024, 18:58 by Writer The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) on Saturday announced that its veteran member David Hinds is set to lead his party into the 2025 general and regional elections. Saying that Dr Hinds, a political science professor, has been also appointed a WPA co-leader, the party said he has emerged as one ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 10 August 2024, 5:34 by Writer A police officer took his own life after consuming a poisonous substance hours after police believed that they uncovered concrete evidence linking him to Wednesday night’s stabbing death of Attorney-at-Law, Richard Layne. Guyana Police Force spokesman, Mark Ramotar said Police Sergeant Tony Sulker was pronounced dead at the Georgetown Public ...