Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton on Tuesday threatened to take action to stop the June 12, 2023 Local Government Elections for Guyana’s 70 neighbourhood and 10 town councils because of numerous unsettled claims of alleged forgery by the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC). “If you have before you a number of people who have forged signatures and up until now GECOM ...

Top financial intelligence officials of Trinidad and Tobago, and the British Virgin Islands (BVI) are in Guyana on a fact-finding mission as part of steps to support this country’s application to join a global financial intelligence-sharing network, Attorney General Anil Nandlall said Tuesday night. While Mr Nandlall was confident that Guyana would be admitted to the Egmont Group in 2024, ...

Guyana’s National Assembly on Monday amended its Criminal Law Offences Act to scrap the powers of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to direct a magistrate to commit a murder accused to stand trial by a judge and jury even if a preliminary inquiry finds that there is insufficient evidence to do so. The amendment now provides for the DPP ...

Legislation that will allow land-users and infrastructure developers to apply for approvals at one location was Monday sent to a bipartisan select committee for further consideration, but already the opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) is recommending that the Opposition Leader be allowed to nominate a member of the Oversight Committee. Housing and Water Minister Collin Croal ...

Home Affairs Minister Robeson on Monday said Mrs Mae Toussaint Jr.- Thomas would remain Permanent Secretary of his ministry, although her visa has been revoked. “This has nothing to do about the question of retaining her. There is no question about that…I’m surprised that question would be raised,” he said when asked by Demerara Waves Online News. The Home Affairs ...

By GHK Lall Somebody please tell me that the PPP Government isn’t serious. No confirmation needed, but I had to table that, anyway. A national spy agency? For what purpose fellow Guyanese? To gather intelligence in foreign and local locations only? Whoever falls for that bull from the PPP Government, with the Hon Attorney General piloting this local spy satellite ...

The Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) decades-old sea transportation humbug reducing the region’s more than US$5 billion food import bill would gradually be resolved possibly with India’s assistance, and already the new India-made North West District ferry is expected to ship agricultural produce from northwestern Guyana to Trinidad, President Irfaan Ali announced on Sunday. “We are going to look at CARICOM to ...

By Stan Cameron AFTER reading of and listening to numerous reports on the treatment meted out to journalists by some notable politicians and their groups of sycophantic followers, as well as the underground intellectual authors, I sincerely believe that with my 30-plus-year experience in this noble profession, it is incumbent upon me to remind those politicians of what is written ...

The Guyana government is preparing to pass new legislation to establish a National Intelligence and Security Agency, which will report directly to the President, and can deploy agents to foreign diplomatic missions as well as collect information from any public authority despite existing that may prohibit the disclosure of such information. According to a copy of the National Intelligence and ...

India’s Foreign Minister  Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar on Saturday said he and his counterparts of the 15-nation Caribbean Community (CARICOM) agreed that there would be annual business summit aimed at boosting trade in goods and services. “We agreed that it would be our endeavour every year to hold an India-CARICOM business summit- one year in the Caribbean, one year in India- ...