Former Region Four Police Divisional Commander, Assistant Commissioner Edgar Thomas on Wednesday told the 2020 Elections Commission of Inquiry (COI) that at the height of a bomb scare at the District Four Returning Office that informed an Election Commissioner that he could no longer protect him because the heavily armed riot squad had entered that Office. Under cross-examination by Attorney-at-Law ...

The United States-headquartered oil well drilling support company, Schlumberger (SLB), has applied for a fresh permit to store radioactive material in pits near the Demerara River, but representatives of the company on Tuesday ran into a firestorm of criticism at a public consultation. Schlumberger’s Legal Counsel, Kyle Prescod told reporters after the consultation that after the application to the Environmental ...

Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Retired Justice Claudette Singh on Tuesday cancelled the temporary position of ‘Operations Coordinator’, amid a firm stance by the opposition-aligned Elections Commissioners who believed that they managed to convince her that she had no power to do so unilaterally. Her decision effectively means that  Information Technology Manager Aneal Giddings would no longer be ...

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) on Tuesday signaled that the country was once again moving closer towards the holding of Local Government Elections (LGE) after the March 13, 2023 date was aborted, but the opposition abstained from voting on the workplan. A highly placed source said LGE could be held during the second quarter – April to June- of this ...

The opposition People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR)-led coalition of A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) wants government to prove that monies being allocated to the gas-to-energy project are properly spent. In a motion sponsored by coalition parliamentarian Ganesh Mahipaul and Jermaine Figueira, they are asking Minister of Natural Resources Vickram Bharrat to provide the National Assembly with all ...

The International Decade for People of African Descent Assembly- Guyana (IDPADA-G) on Monday formally asked government to hold talks on the withdrawal of a multi-million dollar annual  subsidy which was scrapped last year. Chairman of IDPADA-G, Vincent Alexander said his organisation dispatched a letter to Attorney General Anil Nandlall, as the government representative, asking for dialogue with the aim of ...

The High Court has blocked a mining company and the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) from mining or permitting mining respectively in village lands at Jawalla, Region Seven (Cuyuni-Mazaruni) and awarded damages for trespass against the mining company and the regulatory agency. The Jawalla Village Council said Justice Sandil Kissoon awarded the Jawalla Village Council GY$10 million for trespass ...

Three persons- who won a High Court case that blocks Slumberger Guyana Inc (SGI) from carrying on radioactive work at its Houston, East Bank Demerara location-have reminded an environmental consultancy that the company could not restart operations unless it is legally permitted to do so by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The caution was issued through their lawyer,  Jamaican Maylene ...

President Irfaan Ali  on Saturday evening announced that his administration would soon set up a National Medical Scientific Council to harness Guyana’s best experts in the field of human medicine. He said that proposed body would be tasked with bringing Guyana’s “best talent” to investigate the best in medical science development that could be applied to the country. “This is ...

Persons suffering from  cancers, diabetes, heart and other non-communicable diseases will now able to receive life-saving immuno-therapy and stem cell treatment in Guyana for the first time, officials said on Saturday. Those types of regenerative medical treatment, which are now being offered by Woodland’s Hospital in association with the Trinidad-headquartered Fidelity Healthcare Ltd, were launched on Saturday evening at Woodland’s ...