Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Retired Justice Claudette Singh on Wednesday told Election Commissioners that she has handed over more names of persons who the opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) said were either dead or absent from Guyana on voting day- March 2, 2020. “Please be advised that I have dispatched the documents in ...

As Guyanese continue to be faced with high prices of goods and services, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday recommended that the Guyana government gradually reverse tax reductions and allow Guyanese to pay the real prices for goods and services. “Since tax measures are poorly targeted tools, staff recommended a gradual unwinding of the general subsidies provided through the ...

Two media workers, who police have accused of defamatory libel, were Tuesday charged and and granted GY$100,000 bail each, police said. Alex Wayne,49, of Huntley village, Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara and 41-year old Marlon Gary Eleazar of 159 Da Silva Street, Newtown, Georgetown were charged jointly on September 27, 2022 with two counts of conspiracy to commit a felony contrary ...

Three juveniles, who are accused of murder, have escaped from the Sophia Holding Centre and are yet to be recaptured but a teacher at that facility has been fired in connection with that occurrence, sources said Tuesday. The Guyana Police Force late Monday afternoon confirmed that on September 21, 2022 at about 1:20 PM, a 17-year old female who is on ...

The then United States (US) Republican-led administration nominee for the Presidency of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Mauricio Claver-Carone,  who had been unequivocally supported by Guyana, has been removed from office, the hemispheric financial institution announced Monday. “The Board of Governors of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), following the unanimous recommendation by the Board of Executive Directors, has resolved that ...

A resident of Wismar Housing Scheme, Linden, who is known to the police, was Monday still nursing gunshot wounds he sustained after a man fired several r0unds at him last Friday, the Guyana Police Force said. The victim has been identified as 53-year old Nigel Somersall. Police said he was hospitalised in a stable condition, having undergone emergency surgery for ...

The United States (US) is awaiting key documentation from Guyana before deciding whether to lift the now four-year long ban on catfish, also known locally as gilbaka, American Ambassador to Guyana Sarah-Ann Lynch said Monday. “The ball is still in Guyana’s court to finish all the paperwork that’s involved with the exporting,” she told Demerara Waves Online News. She said ...

Outspoken New York-based anti-government activist Rickford Burke on Sunday denied claims by an accused extortionist that he has anything to do with a Faceboo0k page and website styled Guyana News Network on which a number possibly defamatory posts were made. “The people being coerced by the Police to speculate and make these statements live in Guyana. They have never been ...

The Caribbean Community’s Council of Legal Education (CLE) has approved Guyana’s request to establish a Law School here and so create more space for Guyanese as well as other citizens to become lawyers, Attorney General Anil Nandlall said Sunday. “This request was favourably considered, and the Council made a decision to write the Government of Guyana shortly, informing of this ...

Suriname’s acting Foreign Minister Krishna Mathoera has summoned Guyana’s Ambassador to that neighbouring country Keith George, telling him that Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo must be cautious about his utterances over an expected grant of 150 Suriname coastal fishing licences. “During this summons, the Vice-President of Guyana was called upon to await diplomatic efforts and to refrain from making any wide-ranging ...