A Guyanese tourist disappeared at Orinduik Falls while on a visit there on Sunday, prompting the mobilisation of a search and rescue team that includes soldiers to find him. Well-places sources identified the missing man as Gladstone Haynes. In a brief communication with Demerara Waves Online News, Chief-of-Staff of the Guyana Defence Force Brigadier Godfrey Bess said members of the ...

BY GHK Lall The news is awash with appeals and push from His Excellency, President Ali to make his 1000-man initiative gather some momentum, become a success.  To give the President his due, I think that there are embedded noble objectives in that the uplift of men and younger males in Guyana are the intended beneficiaries.  I salute the President ...

New York Attorney General Letitia James on Sunday vowed to mobilise support among colleague Democratic Attorneys General countrywide to ask the Federal government to probe a series of allegations levelled against the Guyana government. “I again, along with my Democratic Attorneys General across the country will be calling upon DOJ (Department of Justice) as well as the Biden administration to ...

SAO PAULO, Oct 30 (Reuters) – Former leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva won Brazil’s bitterly-fought election on Sunday, according to pollster Datafolha, denying far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro a second term. The polling firm called the election with 95% of the votes counted in Latin America’s largest country. The official count stood at 50.7% of votes for Lula against ...

President Irfaan Ali  Friday issued a stirring appeal for broad-based national support to address deep-seated problems facing boys and men so that they could grasp education and job opportunities while staying away from trouble such as committing violence against women and children. “This is not the time for us to point fingers. This the time for us to come together ...

Guyana and neighbouring Suriname are considering a request by the United States (US) to allow Afghan refugees to settle in these two South American nations, officials said. Foreign Secretary Robert Persaud said the US and Guyana held “one preliminary discussion” in September about allowing nationals of that Asian nation to settle here. He pointed out that no decision has been ...

The Guyana Bar Association (GBA) and Guyana Association of Women Lawyers (GAWL) on Friday condemned the Guyana Police Force’s Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) for arresting an Attorney-at-Law Tameika Clarke because she advised her client to remain silent during questioning, even as Attorney General Anil Nandlall said he instructed police to release her. The police force said the alleged arrest ...

President Irfaan Ali on Wednesday announced that Guyana’s High Commissioner to India has been recalled, a day after a video surfaced showing him verbally abusing an Indian Professor who is also an animal rights activist while she went to him to enquire about a dog that she usually feeds. “Notwithstanding all of this, Mr Charandass agreed with me that, in ...

by GHK Lall It takes a special talent, an extraordinary person, for anyone located anywhere in the world to steal the thunder of new British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.  On the history making day of Tuesday, October 25th, one of not the Russian Revolution, but of an English one, a Guyanese all the way over by the Himalayas succeeded in ...

IRVING, Texas – ExxonMobil today announced two discoveries at the Sailfin-1 and Yarrow-1 wells in the Stabroek block offshore Guyana, adding to its extensive portfolio of development opportunities. ExxonMobil has made more than 30 discoveries on the block since 2015, and it has ramped up offshore development and production at a pace that far exceeds the industry average. “Our unrivaled ...