President Irfaan Ali on Friday praised the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) for attaching financial literacy as a component of direct cash transfers to the poor. Dr Ali referred to the “One Family” programme in 2023 that aimed to assist 1,000 poor households to rise out of poverty structurally by offering families continuous support through financial education, financial literacy, planning and ...

American Ambassador to Guyana, Nicole Theriot on Friday said the United States (US) was paying attention to the swirling corruption allegations in the Guyana Police Force (GPF). “We don’t want to be providing resources and funding to an organisation that has those issues but, again, they are just allegations at this point,” she told Demerara Waves Online News. Emphasising that ...

Assistant Police Commissioner of the Guyana Police Force, Calvin Brutus is facing 240 “impending” charges totalling about GY$800 million, Head of the Guyana Police Force’s Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) and Assistant Police Commissioner Fizul Karimbaksh says in court documents. “I further contend that this investigation is significant and encompasses over 240 impending charges for alleged violations” of the Anti-Money ...

High Court Judge, Gino Persaud on Friday refused an application by Assistant Police Commissioner, Calvin Brutus to accompany his wife to the United States for pregnancy-related medical attention. The police subsequently left at about 9 PM. Mr Brutus wanted to leave Guyana with his wife on Saturday. The Court refused the application based on the seriousness of the allegations and ...

Opposition Leader, Aubrey Norton on Thursday said if a coalition that includes his People’s National Congress Reform wins the 2025 general and regional elections, Guyanese would be handed “predictable” cash grants on specified periods that could be used as proof of earnings at commercial banks. Addressing the opening of the New Amsterdam Town Week in Berbice county, he promised cash ...

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday distanced his People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) administration from a senior police officer and declared that details of alleged corruption would be released in response to that officer’s High Court constitutional motion. “Trust me, our affidavit to respond to those charges may not be beneficial to the particular individual because we will go into ...

The Guyana government on Thursday announced that more cash grants would be handed out to Guyanese while investment in infrastructural development would continue, in stark contrast to President Irfaan Ali’s position against countrywide disbursements more than one year ago. “It’s a sustainable thing for us. We can do this periodically: give our people some money and still do the infrastructure,” ...

By Dr Randy Persaud, Professor Emeritus, American University, Washington DC By now you know that the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics has been awarded to two MIT economists, Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson, and political scientist, James Robinson of the University of Chicago. The technically correct name of the award is the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of ...

Former Finance Minister, Winston Jordan on Thursday assailed the Guyana government for excluding youths, who would turn 18 years by year end, from receiving the GY$100,000 cash grant per person. Mr Jordan said government also needed to specify that only Guyanese 18 years and older who are residing in the country would be eligible for the GY$100,000 cash grant. “You ...

President Irfaan Ali says his government will not give into opposition demands for huge cash transfers, even it means that his People’s Progressive Party Civic’s (PPPC) chances of losing an election are reduced. Addressing the opening of the Guyana-Suriname International Business Conference at the Marriot Hotel, he said government would prefer to stick to the economic fundamentals rather than yielding ...