Attorney-at-Law Tamieka Clarke on Friday asked the High Court to declare as unconstitutional the arrest and detention by police of any lawyer for advising a client to remain silent during questioning. Ms Clarke moved to the High Court after she was arrested on October 28, 2022 by agents of the Guyana Police Force’s Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) for informing ...

Former ‘A’ Division Commander Assistant Police Commissioner Edgar Thomas on Friday confessed to disobeying orders by then Police Commissioner Leslie James for him and others to leave the District Four Returning Office at Ashmin’s Building on the basis that Statements of Poll needed to be protected. Mr Thomas said he received several calls from Mr James who was insisting that ...

The Chief Election Officer of the Guyana Election Commission (GECOM) cannot alter information in the collation of results and other information, according to the incumbent Chief Vishnu Persaud. “No whatsoever to my knowledge and I must confess, I went back, I reviewed that section before I came to this hearing and there is no such provision,” he said in response ...

By GHK Lall I read in SN that “48% poverty rate reflects 2019 figures -Finance Minister”.  Thanks, Dr. Minister for the clarification; and, as expected, the PPP Government came out swinging in response to that eyepopping World Bank report.  These are my positions. First, since the World Bank figures on poverty are from 2019 (as updated), there can only be ...

Retired Justice of  Appeal Stanley John, the Chairman of the three-man Commission of Inquiry (COI) into the circumstances surrounding the highly controversial March 2020 general and regional elections on Wednesday said only “credible” evidence would be considered in determining the findings of the probe that is expected to wrap up early next year. “In making our findings, we will have ...

Guyana is set to earn more money from the oil sector under a new Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) that would govern production from oil blocks, as the country prepares for its first ever bid round early next year for 14 offshore blocks, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo said Wednesday. Mr Jagdeo also announced that Guyanese companies would be entitled to bid ...

The Organization of Commonwealth Caribbean Bar Associations (OCCBA) has condemned the arrest of a Guyanese lawyer while she was advising her client in the presence of agents of the Guyana Police F0rce’s Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU). Describing the Guyana Bar Association’s (GBA) report of the  arrest of Attorney-at-Law Tamieka Clarke on October 28 while advising her client to remain ...

The body of the Guyana-born New York policeman was early Wednesday morning discovered by a search party three days after he went missing while bathing at the Orinduik Falls in Region 8 (Potaro-Siparuni), police said. His local address was given as 164 Fourth Street, Alexander Village but the New York Police Department confirmed that he was a member of that ...

The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) on Tuesday said it was assisting Guyana in updating its base maps of the country for the first time in more than 50 years. “The resulting data will then be entered into key layers to update the national base maps, which are over 50 years old,” that United Nations member organisation said in a ...

The Guyana government late Monday night said a number of locally-elected in New York have allowed themselves to be deceived by the Rickford Burke-led Caribbean Guyana Institute for Democracy (CGID). “Unfortunately, a few local officials in the USA who rely on the electorate of Brooklyn appear  to have fallen prey to the racist propaganda of extortionists and con-men,”  the Guyana ...