President Irfaan Ali brokered last night brokered a deal with the speed boat operators who work the Georgetown to Vreed-en-Hoop route to have their fare remain at $100 per person. The Office of the President says the decision was made after Dr Ali met with members of the Demerara River Speed Boat Association at the National Track and Field Centre ...

President Irfaan Ali said that the Men on Mission (MoM) initiative that he is leading will help with the construction of approximately 150 homes across the country for vulnerable persons who own their own house lots, his office reported on Sunday. The Head of State made the remarks during a simple handing-over ceremony where he presented 85-year-old Herstelling, East Bank ...

Chinese businesses in Guyana selling durable goods and services will now be au fait with several aspects of their responsibilities as outlined in the Consumer Affairs Act (CAA) N0 13 of 2011 through the translation of excerpts of the that law into Mandarin by the Competition and Competition Commission (CCAC). The translated Act was presented to the Executive of the ...

Even as Guyana prepares to join a global information-sharing network on financial crimes, the country has cemented ties with sister Caribbean countries to go after assets and combat money laundering, Attorney General Anil Nandlall said. He said Guyana was now not only a member of the Regional Security System’s (RSS)  Asset Recovery Inter-Agency Network of the Caribbean (ARIN-CARIB) but is ...

Police are investigating the brutal beating of a Christ Church Secondary School student by his schoolmates, even as he remained hospitalised recovering from severe head and facial injuries, police said. Head of the Guyana Police Force’s Criminal Investigations Department (CID), Deputy Commissioner Wendell Blanhum told Demerara Waves Online News that two persons have since been questioned by investigators. Mr Blanhum ...

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High Court Judge, Navendra Singh on Friday ruled that defamation cases by former Deputy Chief Elections Officer of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) against Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo and others should go ahead rather than await the outcome of criminal cases against her in the Magistrates Court. The defendants – Mr Jagdeo, Attorney-at-Law Sanjeev Datadin, Deputy Speaker Lenox Shuman,  and ...

Agents of the Guyana Police Force’s Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) are allegedly avoiding service of  private criminal charges instituted by a lawyer who was prevented from leaving the offices because she informed her client to remain silent, her lawyer Nigel Hughes said. With the Director of Public Prosecutions, Shalimar Hack and the Police Commissioner Clifton Hicken both failing to ...

The Guyana government would soon be producing high-tech digital national identification cards with assistance from a Dubai company, G-42, in association with a German government counterpart, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo said on Friday. The project is expected to begin in the coming months and, according t0 Mr Jagdeo, the new card would be for nationals and residents and would be ...