Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday justified government’s decision to sell the Marriott Hotel now, saying that it would be better to sell that “profitable” facility now before it faces competition from seven hotels that are being constructed. “Now, it will be best to sell the Marriott off. You could probably maximise the price that you could get when it’s ...
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US security alert is “serious matter”- Jagdeo
Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday said the United States embassy’s security alert to Americans in Guyana as a result of a threat to US interests is “serious” but he declined to divulge details. “I don’t want to speak about it but it is a serious matter. It is a serious matter and we are giving it all of our ...
Read More »WPA hints at Ogunseye surrendering to police; warns “political prisoner” status has consequences
The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) on Thursday stopped short of saying outright that its executive member Tacuma Ogunseye would surrender to police who want him in connection with several offences including exciting racial hostility earlier this month. “He is not going to go into hiding and he is not going to roll over and die… He is ready to go ...
Read More »BREAKING: Police issue wanted bulletin for WPA’s Tacuma Ogunseye
Weeks after Working People’s Alliance (WPA) Executive Member Tacuma Ogunseye made controversial remarks expecting support from the Afro-Guyanese dominated police and army should there be mass protests by Afro-Guyanese against alleged discrimination, police on Thursday issued a wanted bulletin. Police said is wanted for “several serious offences” and attempting to excite racial hostility or ill-will in violation of Guyana’s Racial ...
Read More »Update: Guyana Police Force’s main Facebook page recovered
The Guyana Police Force’s Facebook page has been recovered, almost one day after it was hacked and removed, according to a well-placed source. The Police Force’s Public Relations Unit did not release any information about the disappearance and reappearance of the page which has almost 83,000 followers. That Social Media platform for the country’s major civilian law enforcement agency disappeared ...
Read More »Americans in Guyana put on alert amid threats to US interests
The American Embassy in Guyana on Wednesday said it has tightened security and put Americans here on alert because of threats that have been issued. “Out of an abundance of caution, we want to inform U.S. citizens that the embassy has increased security protocols due to receiving threats against U.S. interests,” the embassy here said. A high-ranking Guyanese police officer ...
Read More »Eyes on WPA’s call for “overthrow” of govt- Nandlall
Though Guyanese police were yet to question executives of the Working People’s Alliance (WPA) about controversial remarks that appear to encourage police and soldiers not to clamp down on anti-government street protests, Attorney General Anil Nandlall on Tuesday interpreted them as a plot to topple the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) administration. “Tacuma Ogunseye went to Buxton Line-top and made ...
Read More »Oil sales push UK trade with Guyana to over US$1 billion
The United Kingdom’s (UK) trade with Guyana last year reached its highest value of more than 1 billion pounds sterling, largely due to the South American nation’s sale of crude oil to that European country, latest figures show. Britain’s Department for Business and Trade’s latest fact sheet dated March 28, 2023, exports and imports of goods and services between the ...
Read More »OPINION: Tacuma Ogunseye – raising the bar still higher
By GHK Lall Tacuma Ogunseye just applied some more heat to the controversies surrounding his words of March 9th delivered in Buxton. He seemingly keeps stoking the fire, raising the temperature, using himself as the rocket fuel. It does not take much of himself, such an accelerant he is now. The brother in the WPA has made his position clear: ...
Read More »Canada funds improving maternal, newborn and child health in Guyana’s hinterland
The Canadian government on Tuesday inked a CDN$2.5 million agreement with the non-governmental organisation, Giving Health to Kids, to improve maternal, newborn and child health in Guyana’s hinterland after research showed some worrisome findings. President of Giving Health to Kids, Associate Clinical Professor at Mc Master University, Dr Narendra Singh said the five-year project has been developed to increase the ...
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