The Norway-headquartered watchdog against corruption in Guyana’s oil and gas, mining and quarrying, forestry, and fisheries sectors has also asked Guyana to also submit its 2021 report, though the priority is the 2020 report,  so that the suspension from the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) could be lifted. In a letter dated February 17, 2023, EITI Chairman Helen Clark told ...

Four persons , who were arrested in connection with several drug busts, pleaded guilty to drug trafficking, according to the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU). Chaterpaul “Dutchie” Singh,39, of First Street Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara was sentenced to four years imprisonment and fined GY$1,387,800 for trafficking in 3.3 pounds of marijuana. CANU said the charge against Anesia Isfehani, 24, of ...

Former President of the Guyana Judo Association and politician, Geoffrey ‘Jeff’ Sankies died on Friday morning at his residence on Duke, Street, Kingston, Georgetown, a family member said. He was 78 years old. Sankies was also an executive member of the now defunct Justice For All Party (JFAP). He succumbed to a brief illness at about 6 AM. Sankies passed ...

A woman, who was among eight persons wanted by the police force’s Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) for questioning about money laundering, on Friday surrendered to investigators who have since arrested her, but she and the others are not linked to family that has been charged with allegedly laundering GY$4.1 billion, her lawyer said. Attorney-at-Law Bernard Da Silva told Demerara ...

The opposition People’s National Congress Reform-led A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), and the Alliance For Change (AFC) have issued separate calls for the carbon credit payout to Amerindian villages to be increased from 15 percent to between 25 percent and 85 percent. Questions are lingering about how exactly government apparently arrived unilaterally at 15 percent. For its part, AFC ...

by Rene van Nes, European Union Ambassador to Guyana On 24 February 2022, exactly one year ago, we all woke up to a new world. On that day, in violation of all international laws and agreements, Vladimir Putin’s Russian Federation launched a “special military operation”, in fact a full-scale aggression against Ukraine, a peaceful country, that neither had attacked nor ...

Today HE Ambassador of the United States of America, Sarah-Ann Lynch, HE the British High Commissioner, Jane Miller OBE, HE Canadian High Commissioner, Mark Berman, and HE Ambassador of the European Union, René van Nes, solemnly note the one-year commemoration of the war against Ukraine.  Russia must be held accountable. We all remember the fateful day when Russia’s premeditated, unprovoked, and unjustifiable full-scale invasion of Ukraine ...

A Guyana-born American man was arrested on Thursday for allegedly attempting to smuggle 12 rolled marijuana “joints” into Guyana on arrival at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) said Thursday. The New Jersey-based man, 30-year old Delroy Julius Seaforth, told investigators he came to Guyana to attend a funeral. He was intercepted by officers of ...

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) has slashed its paper billing significantly over the past year through its sister company, WeSolveCX,  a company official said. WeSolveCX’s Senior Director, Malini Gouridat said GTT is one of the new company’s “biggest clients”, and over the past year it has digitised its e-billing system. She said GTT is sending out out more ...

Atlantic Tele-Network (ATN), the parent company of Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GTT), has launched a Business Processing Outsourcing (BPO) company that is not just a call centre but geared to assist small, medium and large businesses to position themselves in the Guyanese market. General Manager of WeSolveCX, Shem Erskine said the new company is in the marketplace to support Guyana’s ...