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Monthly Archives: September 2024

“Guyana is my friend, Irfaan is my friend” but wanted votes verified – St Vincent’s PM Gonsalves

Last Updated on Sunday, 15 September 2024, 20:39 by Writer The Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines, Dr Ralph Gonsalves on Saturday declared that he is a “friend” of Guyana and its President, Irfaan Ali, but in an effort to settle the dispute over the 2020 election results, he sole interest was to ensure that the laws were ...

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OPINION: With a friend like Prime Minister Gonsalves, Guyana wouldn’t have enemies

Last Updated on Sunday, 15 September 2024, 13:38 by Writer By GHK Lall St. Vincent and Grenadines Prime Minister, Dr. Ralph Gonsalves, is getting a little too intimate with what is good for Guyana. According to PM Gonsalves, Nicolás Maduro Moros at the helm in Venezuela is the best that could be for Guyana (“Maduro, as Venezuela’s President, is in ...

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Maduro, as Venezuela’s President, is in Guyana’s interest – St Vincent’s PM Gonsalves

Last Updated on Saturday, 14 September 2024, 22:22 by Writer St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves on Saturday said the declaration of President Nicolás Maduro as the winner of last July’s election was in the best interest of Guyana’s oil sector. He told Demerara Waves Online News in Georgetown shortly after witnessing the last rites for ...

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Mechanic shot dead

Last Updated on Saturday, 14 September 2024, 12:15 by Writer Police said they were investigating the early Friday night shooting death of a mechanic at Vlissengen Square, between West Ruimveldt Front Road and Mandela Avenue. He has been identified as 23-year-old Troy “Kelly” Rodrigues of 165 Leopold Street, Werk-en-Rust, Georgetown. Police said he was shot to top his forehead, and ...

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1 killed, 2 injured in Mahaicony accident

Last Updated on Saturday, 14 September 2024, 12:12 by Writer A 28-year-old man was killed and two others injured in an early Saturday morning road accident when the driver lost control of the car on the Cottage, Mahaicony Public Road and slammed into a fence and a utility pole. The dead man has been identified as Collin Dowden of Lot ...

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Speeding minibus drags, kills elderly pedestrian then drives away

Last Updated on Saturday, 14 September 2024, 12:16 by Writer Police were Saturday searching for a minibus, with a driver, which allegedly struck down and killed a 62-year-old man in the vicinity of ‘Church of God Road’, Buxton, East Coast Demerara. Police said the minibus that was involved in the accident at about 11 o’clock Friday night was bearing licence ...

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Guyanese singer, Eddy Grant, wins “Electric Avenue” copyright case against Donald Trump

Last Updated on Saturday, 14 September 2024, 11:59 by Writer Original story was published here on Business Insider. A federal judge in Manhattan has found former president Donald Trump liable for damages in a hotly-contested copyright battle over Eddy Grant’s ’80s dance hit “Electric Avenue.” Business Insider reported that in a 30-page decision, the judge on Friday delivered a one-two blow that ...

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Corrupt police officers will be removed – Norton

Last Updated on Saturday, 14 September 2024, 11:09 by Writer Opposition Leader, Aubrey Norton says if his People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR)-led coalition wins the 2025 general and regional elections a number of senior police officers would be removed. “We have got to clean the police force of those senior corrupt officers who have no interest in law enforcement but ...

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Winston Jordan’s claims of discrimination in subsidies is race-baiting – PPP official

Last Updated on Saturday, 14 September 2024, 9:33 by Denis Chabrol Former Finance Minister Winston Jordan is insisting that government’s assistance to the agriculture sector is skewed in favour of People’s Progressive Party (PPP) supporters rather than across the board, but a senior official of the governing party accused him of race-baiting and said the evidence proves otherwise. “This $1 ...

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Guyana’s gas-to-shore project passes US EXIMBANK’s due diligence – Jagdeo

Last Updated on Thursday, 12 September 2024, 23:04 by Writer Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo 0n Thursday said the United States’s Export-Import (EXIM) Bank has informed Guyana that it has received environmental and technical reports showing that the US$756 million dollar electricity and natural gas liquids plants are “sound”. “They have examined all the technical stuff. That is the drawings and ...

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