The European Union (EU) is exploring the possibility of a team of consular officials coming to Guyana periodically to process and grant Schengen visas to Guyanese t0 avoid them travelling to the Dutch Embassy in Suriname, EU Ambassador to Guyana Fernando Ponz Canto said Wednesday. “Who knows: perhaps, of course, without any commitment, one possibility could be that some officials ...

Police Commissioner Clifton Hicken and Attorney-at-Law Nigel Hughes on Wednesday differed on whether Sergeant Dion Bascom was available to investigators about his damning allegations against a senior police officer and two other persons in the gunning down of Ricardo “Paper Shorts” Fagundes last year. Mr Hughes also said President Irfaan Ali has not responded to his request for “witness protection” ...

Guyana Telephone and Telegraph’s (GTTs) Home Solutions and Fixed Networks this weekend continued the second phase of an unprecedented roll-out of its high speed fibre service to improve the internet connection of 20,000 homes across 18 communities within record breaking time of just three months. Over the past two weeks, the company rolled out fibre to Melanie, Coldingen, Enterprise Gardens, ...

Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton on Tuesday promised that if the coalition of A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) is reelected in 2025, it would forgive the more than GY$10 billion in University of Guyana student loans. “We will also write off all student’s debt and pay an education stipend to students. Moreover, we will work together with UG ...

Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Retired Justice Claudette Singh on Tuesday dismissed suggestions that she is biased because she votes with the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC)-nominated election commissioners. Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton has repeatedly called for her to resign or face unspecified action in order to professionalise that election management authority. But Justice Singh on Tuesday said ...

People’s Progressive Party Ciivic (PPPC)-nominee Clement Rohee was Tuesday morning sworn in as an Electionn Commissioner before President Irfaan Ali. The President said he hoped that Mr Rohee’s previous experience at the Elections Commission and public life would help to strengthen democracy. “The will of the people is the most fundamental right that must be respected,” he added. Among those ...

Veteran People’s Progressive Party (PPP) member, Clement Rohee is Tuesday morning expected to be sworn in as a Commissioner of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to replace Ms Bibi Shadick who died last weekend, sources said. Mr. Rohee, a former General Secretary of the PPP, serves on the PPP Executive and has held several ministerial appointments. The Office of the ...

Attorney-at-Law Nigel Hughes on Monday formally asked President Irfaan Ali t0 provide witness protection for an undercover Guyanese policeman who has implicated at least one his colleagues of deliberately botching an investigation into the gunning down of Ricardo “Paper Shorts” Fagundes in March, 2021 in exchange for GY$30 million. “We are further instructed to request as we hereby do, that ...

Former Finance Minister Winston Jordan on Sunday recommended the creation of an African Development Fund and urged the government-funded  International Decade for People of African Descent Assembly – Guyana (IDPADA-G) to conduct a data-driven scientific study on the social and economic plight of Afro-Guyanese. While IDPADA-G has conducted an analysis of the historical condition of enslaved Africans and their descendants, ...

Guyana Elections Commissioner, Bibi Shadick died on Saturday at her residence in Georgetown, sources said. The sources said Ms Shadick, an Attorney-at-Law,suffered from pulmonary fibrosis. She was 76 years. Her colleague Commissioner, Sase Gunraj was too shocked to react to the news of her passing. A family member told Demerara Waves Online News that about two weeks ago, she had ...