by GHK Lall David Granger is the giver, not Bharrat Jagdeo.  What is surprising is that Vice President Jagdeo would step forward and actually claim ownership of the extension of the blocks that amounts to shoving forward by one year the relinquishment in October, two months hence.  I am still trying to figure out why would VP Jagdeo do such ...

The ExxonMobil-led consortium of Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL) had been granted one-year extensions of its three prospecting licences in the Stabroek, Canje and Kaieteur offshore oil blocks during the latter months of the David Granger-led administration because of the COVID-19 virus, according to letters released on Tuesday by the Ministry of Natural Resources. The almost identical letters ...

by R. Evan Ellis, Latin Research Professor at the U.S. Army War College. Introduction The embrace of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) by Guyana President Irfaan Ali during his July 2023 visit to the country highlights a renewed wave of Chinese engagement and influence in a country that has transformed in just a few years from one of the region’s poorest ...

President Irfaan Ali on Wednesday announced that talks were underway with India and Guatemala to provide technical managerial support to the State-owned Guyana Sugar Corporation (GUYSUCO). In his address to the 22nd delegates Congress of  the Guyana Agricultural Workers Union (GAWU), he said the technical support management would be expected to “drive the innovation”, change and survival of the sugar ...

Former President Bharrat Jagdeo on Tuesday has accused the military and police hierarchy during the 2002-2008 crime spree of giving the Guyana government wrong intelligence reports. “I sat with Roger, and the leadership of the army and police would bring a report to us about the situation that was taking place on the ground when ordinary people were being slaughtered, ...

by Dr Randolph Persaud (Professor Emeritus) Frantz Fanon and Walter Rodney are two of the most formidable thinkers on problems of race and racism. Fanon, a psychiatrist from Martinique, and Rodney, a Guyanese historian, were both world class scholars, anti-colonial activists, and champions of the poor and the powerless. Anti-racism was an integral dimension of their respective intellectual and political ...

Reproduced from Daily Beast A New York bank manager allegedly tried to hire a hitman to kill her brother-in-law, but things were swiftly derailed when the hired gun informed the man—one day prior to when the deed was supposed to be done—that he was the target of an assassination plot. Reshma Massarone, a 39-year-old mother of two, was arrested Monday and ...

Veteran People’s Progressive Party (PPP) Member, Neend ‘Neil’ Kumar on Tuesday suffered a heart attack and was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), a senior health sector official said. The official said Mr Kumar’s condition was listed as “stable” and he was due to have an angiogram. Mr Kumar was not seen at the service for late Dr ...

Even as Caribbean Airlines Limited (CAL) resumed flights on some routes after pilots began trickling back to work following a court order, at least three United States (US)-based Guyanese on Monday said they would sue the carrier for failing to fly them out of Guyana on Sunday after cockpit crews reported sick. Guyana’s Aviation Minister, Juan Edghill said CAL commenced ...

New York-based Guyanese opposition political activist Rickford Burke has fired back at Guyana’s Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo’s plan to go after participants at a conference on alleged racial and political discrimination against Afro-Guyanese that is expected to be headlined Democratic Leader in the United States House of Representatives, Congressman Hakeem Jeffries Mr Jagdeo clearly expressed his disgust at plans by ...