Home Affairs Minister Robeson Benn has told the High Court that President Irfaan Ali swiftly appointed Mr Clifton Hicken as acting Police Commissioner in the absence of an Opposition Leader and Police Service Commission because of ongoing threats from Venezuela, the need to enforce a raft a laws and manage the more than 7,000 strong police force which can exercise ...

July 12, is observed all around the region as Caribbean Literature Day. The date was chosen to mark the occasion on July 12, 1562, when Spanish Franciscan  priest and bishop of Yucatán, Diego de Landa ordered the burning of sacred Mayan texts containing millennia of accumulated knowledge. Several organisations, institutions, publishers, book stores, literary and performing  groups will be celebrating ...

President Irfaan Ali on Monday said the relevant authorities should investigate claims by Chinese individuals in Guyana that they are involved in a money laundering scheme called “flying money” as reported by the United States-based Vice News. He said the news documentary clearly contained confessions by a number of persons that they could move large amounts of cash through the ...

The People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR)-led A Partnership for National Unity, the Alliance For Change and a number of small parties on Monday held talks to begin mapping a strategy to deal with Guyana’s “political crisis”. PNCR General Secretary Geeta Chandan believed that the participation of the Working People’s Alliance (WPA) in Monday’s talks signaled its eventual return to APNU ...

Several Amerindian villages on Monday received two absolute grants and several certificates of land titles as part of government’s efforts to resolve decades-long land demarcation problems Toshao Ralph Hendricks received an absolute grant for the extension of Capoey in Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam), and Toshao Arifa Shabeer received an absolute grant for the extension of Mashabo in Region Two, Receiving certificates ...

President Irfaan Ali on Monday scoffed at claims that his administration has hijacked the agenda of the National Toshaos Council which is meeting in Georgetown. In clear  reaction to claims that the People’s Progressive Party (PPP)-led government has opted to control the agenda and prevent the outgoing NTC Chairman from addressing the opening session, the Guyanese leader instead sought to ...

Almost 640 pounds of cocaine were found in bags bearing the marking “King Coca 30” strapped inside a single-engine illegal plane that landed at the Mahdia airstrip in Region 8 (Potaro-Siparuni) on Sunday afternoon, the Guyana Police Force said. Police said the Cessna Skyline plane, which might have come from neighbouring Venezuela, “landed without authorisation.” The  cocaine and  120.45 pounds ...

Conflicting accounts emerged Sunday night about how a 17-year old boy was burnt while in police custody, with him saying an investigator lit him afire and the Guyana Police Force stating that the suspect was playing with a lighter. Police said two ranks at the Vigilance Police Station were placed under close arrest, and the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) ...

A cocaine-laden plane,  bearing what appears to  be United States (US) registration markings, on Sunday landed at the Mahdia airstrip after it apparently ran out of fuel, highly-placed sources said. The sources said the pilot and co-pilot, who have been identified as Colombian and Brazilian, were arrested shortly after the aircraft touched down at the airstrip in Region 8 (Potaro-Siparuni). ...

by Attorney-at-Law Dr Vivian Williams You might be wondering why the fight for political power in Guyana is so rancorous, that it took  almost half a year to declare a winner of the 2020 elections. What is brewing is a fight for control  of enormous oil wealth in a winner-take-all system. So, in the heat of the 2020 elections drama, ...