Politician, Cathy Hughes is suing Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo for more than GY$50 million for calling her a “low-life”, a term she says in court papers can mean, among other things, that she is a criminal, disreputable or immoral and can be tied to her race or gender. Ms Hughes said Mr Jagdeo slandered her at a news conference on ...
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Guyana will ask UN Security Council to impose sanctions on Venezuela if ICJ order is violated
Attorney General Anil Nandlall on Tuesday said the Guyana government would ask the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to authorise wide-ranging sanctions or military action against Venezuela if the Nicolas Maduro administration breaches World Court order in line with last Sunday’s referendum. If Venezuela violates the December 1, 2023 ICJ order by taking any action, which would modify the situation ...
Read More »OPINION: Referendum postmortem: low turnout could mean Maduro is on his way out
by GHK Lall The much-watched Venezuelan Referendum was plagued by low turnout, which means a hell of a big turndown. I repeat for emphasis: a small turnout confirms a big turnup of the nose by neighboring voters at Venezuelan strongman, Nicolas Maduro. After all of his blubber and bluster, he ain’t look so big, and so bad, now. But now ...
Read More »InterCaribbean prepares to fly to Eugene F. Correia ‘Ogle’ Airport
InterCaribbean Airways is poised to begin flying to the Eugene F. Correia ‘Ogle’ International Airport in Guyana for the first time with the acquisition of more ATR planes, according to the carrier’s Founder and Chairman, Lyndon Gardiner. “Now that we’re importing more and more ATRs, we’re certainly looking at how we expand our service into Ogle,” he said in a ...
Read More »89 percent abstain vote on border dispute referendum in Venezuela, says opposition
Caracas, Dec 3 (EFE).- Venezuelan opposition leader claims that the participation in Sunday’s non-binding referendum on the territorial dispute with eastern neighbor Guyana saw a turnout of 2,110,864 voters out of 20.69 million citizens, an abstention of over 89 percent. The referendum included five questions. The first four were about the acceptance or rejection of international treaties and tribunals to ...
Read More »GDF searching for missing vessel with four-man crew
The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) on Monday said its Coast Guard Search and Rescue teams were escalating their daily sea patrols in search of a fishing vessel, ASEYAH One, and its four-man crew that went missing almost one month ago. “Operations have been concentrated within Guyana’s maritime space, spanning from the Demerara River to the Waini River mouth, covering the ...
Read More »Guyana to champion action on sustainable green cover and biodiversity for Commonwealth
Guyana will champion the Commonwealth Living Lands Action Group on sustainable green cover and biodiversity, committing itself to lead coordinated efforts across the 56 Commonwealth member countries, the Commonwealth Headquarters said in a statement. The announcement comes after a Commonwealth event in Dubai on 3 December 2023 during the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28). During the event, the Commonwealth Secretariat launched ...
Read More »“It’s false” that Venezuelans replaced Guyana’s flag with theirs- President, GDF Chief-of-Staff / “Es falso” que los venezolanos reemplazaron la bandera de Guyana por la suya – Presidente, Jefe de Gabinete del GDF
Lea la versión en español debajo del informe en inglés. As Venezuelans were awaiting official results of a referendum on Guyana’s Essequibo County, authorities in Georgetown denied claims by Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez that a group of persons lowered Guyana’s flag and hoisted Venezuela’s. “It is not true,” President Irfaan Ali told Demerara Waves Online News. Chief-of-Staff of the ...
Read More »Opposition insists chicken was smuggled
Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton’s office on Sunday maintained that chicken was being smuggled into Guyana from neighbouring Suriname and has gone as far as identifying two vehicles that were allegedly involved in the movement of more than 50,000 pounds of the meat. Despite the Ministry of Agriculture’s release of correspondence and other documentation from the Guyana Livestock Development Authority (GLDA) ...
Read More »OPINION: The Jaguar has risen!
By Dr. Randy Persaud, Professor Emeritus There comes a time in every nation’s history when all the people raise their heads high into the heavens, anticipating, knowing, something definitive is happening. We are in such a moment now in the face of foreign aggression. And so, on this day – December 3, 2023, from the enchanting vistas of Mabaruma and ...
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