Last Updated on Wednesday, 23 October 2024, 18:48 by Writer In the wake of stirring allegations about the legitimacy of hundreds of millions of dollars in deposits associated with Assistant Police Commissioner Calvin Brutus and his family, as well as a controversial decision to appoint Mr Clifton Hicken as substantive police commissioner, the Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) on Monday ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 22 October 2024, 20:12 by Writer France and Guyana on Tuesday discussed the need to strengthen cooperation in bringing wanted persons to justice in both c0untries, including the overseas department of French Guiana, and the return of Guyanese after serving jail terms, France’s Ambassador to Guyana Nicolas de Lacoste said. “We have people we are looking ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 22 October 2024, 20:04 by Writer The French Diplomatic Bureau on Monday began processing Guyanese applications for a Schengen visa to France, but already officials say there is a scarcity of euros (€) to pay for the processing. “Some people have difficulties getting euros because we are asking for cash and cash in euros and I’ve ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 22 October 2024, 19:45 by Writer The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) on Monday dismissed suggestions that commercial banks might not want to risk accepting cash grants as a type of income to lend money because of the likelihood that the cash grant policy could be changed by a new government in office. “Why should an incoming ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 22 October 2024, 19:39 by Writer The United States (U.S.) government, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), launched RESET, the Caribbean Resilient Economies and Sectors activity on October 7 at the margins of the Caribbean Week of Agriculture (CWA). The CWA took place from October 7-11 at the UWI Open Campus in St. Vincent ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 22 October 2024, 19:26 by Writer Director of the University of the West Indies’ (UWI) School of Nursing in Trinidad, Dr Oscar Ocho says nurses in the Caribbean are more academically qualified but cannot put the theory into practice, resulting in the need for a study on the impact of professionalisation on the profession. “We are ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 22 October 2024, 19:17 by Writer A so far unidentified bandit was shot twice to his abdomen by a businessman during an attempted robbery at Tech Guy Solutions on Middleton Street, Georgetown, police said. The incident occurred Monday morning at about 11:40 a.m. when a man, whose name and other particulars were not immediately known, entered ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 22 October 2024, 17:03 by Writer Guyana on Monday announced that two British companies have been contracted again to sell the country’s crude entitlement for the next 12 months, and the country is set to receive higher earnings from the deals. The Ministry of Natural Resources said the United Kingdom-based BB Energy Trading Limited would sell ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 20 October 2024, 18:51 by Writer A group of investors in the Brazilian state of Roraima is interested in establishing a medical school in the Rupununi, and President Irfaan Ali wants the University of Guyana (UG) and the University of the West Indies (UWI) to be part of the project. Addressing the sod-turning ceremony for a ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 20 October 2024, 12:08 by Writer President Irfaan Ali on Saturday announced that his administration’s Georgetown transformation plan includes improving drainage, emphasising history and culture while promoting walking and riding rather than too many vehicles in the city. “All of these sectors and segments that we see the City evolving with will support a city that ...