A fire at La Grange , West Bank Demerara on New Year’s Day 2024 destroyed a house and left nine persons homeless, the Guyana Fire Service said Tuesday. “The fire reportedly started after a child was left unattended while playing with a lighter on a chair. The lighter sparked, resulting in naked flames that fell onto the chair, ignited, and ...

The more than GY$1 billion restoration of City Hall has been pushed back a second time, and the project is now expected to be finished around mid-2024 because workers have found more deteriorated parts of the colonial wooden structure, City Mayor Alfred Mentore said Monday. “They gave us a commitment when the job will be completed which is May or ...

Trinidad and Tobago’s former Prime Minister Basdeo Panday died on Monday, and already the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) is mourning the loss of 0ne 0f the Caribbean’s foremost politicians. He was 90 years old. Panday, who celebrated his 90th birthday on May 25, was Trinidad and Tobago’s fifth prime minister, serving from 1995-2001. He was the founder and leader of ...

By: Dr. Vivian M. Williams After a failed coup d’état in Türkiye, the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, directed its fury to a dissident exiled in the United States. It accused Fetullah Gulen of instigating antigovernment sentiments and violence in Türkiye that led to the attempt on the President’s life. Because Gulen was beyond the reach of legal process ...

An Assistant at the Lands and Surveys Commission was shot dead and another man was seriously by bandits who invaded a wedding house at Canal Number 2 Polder, West Bank Demerara late Old Year’s Night 2023. Investigators said 40-year-old Natram ‘Vishal’ Persaud, an Assistant at the Lands and Survey Department and of Lot 43 Stanleytown, West Bank Demerara was shot ...

Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton on Monday-New Year’s Day 2024- said the serving of summonses to New York-based Guyanese opposition activist, Rickford Burke, is a sign of the further deterioration of human rights by the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC)-led administration. “Its assault on our freedoms of expression and association reached even more dangerous heights, as the recent court summons served ...

President Irfaan Ali and Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton on Monday broke New Year 2024 with different accounts on whether Guyanese are pocketing more money or are grappling with serious poverty. While the Guyanese leader boasted of a “phenomenal” 40 percent economic growth in 2023, a more than 21.5 percent increase in the salary base of all public servants since 2020, ...

President Irfaan Ali on Monday- New Year’s Day 2024- announced that steps would be taken to reduce the number of traffic accidents on Guyana’s roads, even as a number of traffic offences are committed just outside State House and the Police Headquarters at least weekly. In his New Year’s Message, Dr Ali said the carnage on Guyana’s roads “will be ...

By Dr. Randy Persaud, Professor Emeritus The world knows Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo as a brilliant economist. Even those who do not like his politics acknowledge that the General Secretary of the PPP, who is also the current Vice President, has mastered the intricacies of macro-economic management. Party supporters and even opposition elements also know him as a shrewd and fearless ...

by Retired Rear Admiral Dr Gary Best Nothing Bharrat Jagdeo said, as General Secretary of the PPP/c, at his last press  conference, for 2023 had anything remotely relevant to the extant question I raised  in the Opinion piece of 24th December 2023, published by Demerara Waves, which was, did President Ali exceed Parliamentary authority by discussing a  territorial dispute with ...