Charrandass Persaud – the then governing APNU+AFC coalition parliamentarian who set in motion the virtual collapse of the David Granger-led administration by voting for a People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC)-sponsored no-confidence motion- has fallen seriously ill and was Wednesday evacuated to Canada, according to medical sources. One of the sources said Mr Persaud was suffering from internal bleeding and subsequently ...

New York-based Guyanese, Rickford Burke, who is wanted in Guyana for a series of offences, has been served with a Guyana Police Force summons to attend court in March, 2024. Mr Burke, a known activist against the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC), earlier this week claimed that armed men were seen nearby his residence in New York. He said that ...

The Georgetown City Council on Wednesday unanimously decided to pay a GY$25,000 bonus to its 550 workers and a 6.5 percent wage and salary increase from January 2024, but they would have to wait until the council gets sufficient money during the first quarter of next year for their 2023 back pay. While the Finance Committee had recommended a 5 ...

President Irfaan Ali on Tuesday announced that Guyana has requested the United Kingdom (UK) government to consider mounting a joint lobby to Lloyd’s of London insurance company to reduce its risk assessment of this country’s maritime space due to the border controversy with Venezuela. “Together, we will have to speak to Lloyd’s so that they can understand the nuances, the ...

The state-owned Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) has employed 543 new employees at Rose Hall Estate to implement a mechanisation programme as the sugar industry continues to grapple with a labour shortage, Minister of Agriculture Zulfikar Mustapha said Tuesday. He was responding to questions from opposition APNU+AFC parliamentarian, Vinceroy Jordan about why GY$643,690,000 was spent on wages and salaries. “We employed ...

Guyana has paid up all of its dues to the Caribbean’s Regional Security System (RSS) totalling more than GY$300 million, Foreign Minister Hugh Todd said Tuesday during the National Assembly’s consideration of financial papers. Shadow Foreign Minister Amanza Walton-Desir asked the minister to explain why the House needed to approve the “very large” supplemental funding of GY$382,418,300 million to which ...

(Bloomberg) — One of the world’s most-influential insurance markets added Guyana to its list of the riskiest shipping zones amid an escalating territorial dispute with neighboring Venezuela. The decision announced by Lloyd’s Market Association’s Joint War Committee on Monday applies only to vessels visiting offshore installations in the Guyanese Exclusive Economic Zone outside the nation’s “territorial waters.” The move may ...

Guyana’s Court of Appeal on Monday dismissed efforts by the opposition to reinstate an election petition, agreeing with the High Court that the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) had a constitutional right to order a recount of the votes cast in the March, 2020 general and regional elections. Justices of Appeal Rishi Persaud and Dawn Gregory said Section 22 of the ...

The United Kingdom’s Minister for the Americas and the Caribbean, David Rutley will Monday hold talks with Guyana’s President Irfaan Ali and meet with western nations’ ambassadors here to discuss support for this former British colony, the Foreign Office said. “The UK will continue to work with partners in the region, as well as through international bodies, to ensure the ...

Two men were killed early Sunday morning at Victoria, East Coast Demerara after one of the now deceased men was attacked and robbed of his 30-pennyweight gold chain, police said Sunday night. Dead are the robbery victim, 26-year old William Montrose-who was a construction worker and gold miner and lived at Side Line Dam, Victoria, and one of the suspected ...