The fate of Fire Chief, Gregory Wickham, who has been cited for dereliction of duty by a Commission of Inquiry into the Mahdia Secondary School dormitory that killed 20 children last year, now depends on an examination of the report, Home Affairs Minister Robeson Benn said Monday. Mr Benn said Mr Wickham did not fully express himself properly in his ...

The University of Guyana on Sunday said it has long resumed face-to-face classes but students have the option of continuing Online through the institution’s distance learning technological architecture, contrary to last week’s claims by Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo. Though UG did not refer to Mr Jagdeo’s utterances, the institution said it announced and started a phased return to face-to-face classes ...

Chief Fire Officer of the Guyana Fire Service, Gregory Wickham has been cited for dereliction of duty by failing to, among other things, give priority to a report about poor fire safety at the Mahdia Secondary School’s dormitory less than three months after the inferno that killed 19 girls and the housemother’s son. The Sub-Officer in Charge of the Mahdia ...

Book Review by GHK Lall Parliament in the Republic of Guyana is an impressive read, and an outstanding effort put forward by former Speaker of the National Assembly, Mr. Raphael G. C. Trotman in this second edition.  It is a bona fide historical treat for students, citizens, and those who are avid readers of events, personalities, contributors, and luminous figures ...

By Dr. Randy Persaud, Professor Emeritus I do not normally use this column to respond to anyone, but today I must. This is because Andre Brandli who lives in Germany, and who is clueless about Guyana, just published the worst type of ad hominem attack against me in Kaieteur News and Stabroek News. Note that these two outlets regularly refuse ...

As Guyana gradually enters the general election campaign season, the joint opposition on Saturday sought to rally public rejection of government’s GY$1 trillion budget on the grounds that it does nothing to counter spiralling cost of living but puts more than 100 billion in the hands of a small group of contractors. The Alliance For Change (AFC), Working People’s Alliance ...

Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton Saturday night put the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC)-led administration on notice that the opposition would resist any attempt by the incumbent party to remain in office if it loses the next general and regional elections. He also signaled that a People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR)-led coalition government would shift around PPPC loyalists currently in government ...

Reproduced from WABC JAMAICA, Queens (WABC) — A traveler at John F. Kennedy International Airport has been arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle cocaine inside of bags of jumbo shrimp, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York. Zacharie Scott, 22, is a citizen of the United States who lives in Guyana. He was arrested Friday ...

The University of Guyana (UG) has received a substantial shot in the arm after 31 of its faculty members who were studying for their PhDs and Ed.Ds graduated in December 2023, the publicly funded tertiary institution said Saturday. The scholars from across UG’s 8 Faculties and several service units are already back at the University carrying out teaching, research and ...

Wanted murder suspect Shaquawn ‘Izwe$ Alleyne has confessed to investigators that he killed his girlfriend Shonette Dover, and then disposed of her body in a shallow grave, the Guyana Police Force said Saturday. The murder suspect was captured in Suriname and arrived in Guyana Friday morning to face charges over the 2021 murder of his girlfriend. On his arrival in ...