Representative of the List of Candidates for A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC), David Granger has urged the leaders of those two coalition partners to hold “meaningful consultations” on who should replace two recently resigned parliamentarians, he said Friday. “The Representative of the List has since written to Mr. Aubrey Norton, Chairman of A Partnership of National Unity ...

Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform, Aubrey Norton on Thursday said he wanted the removal of the casting vote of the Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM). “What we have to probably do is to have some mechanism that we should not give a casting vote to the Chair because when you give a casting vote to the ...

The first World Trade Center (WTC) to be set up in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will be in Guyana. This follows the culmination of several months of negotiations between Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) and the New York headquartered World Trade Center Association (WTCA). DDL said it recently secured a license to establish a World Trade Center in Guyana and will ...

Eight persons have been arrested in connection with two separate drug busts in Georgetown and Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo, the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) said. That agency said five persons were arrested on Tuesday at a house at 295 Shantiniketan Street, Prashad Nagar, Georgetown. The agency says the 11 kilogrammes of cocaine is valued at more than GY$12 million and ...

Even as the Alliance For Change (AFC) on Wednesday called on President Irfaan Ali to order an independent probe into Local Government Minister Nigel Dharamlall’s alleged disrespect for women, the Guyanese leader said the offended should go to the police. “There is a procedure in dealing with these matters so those procedures have to be utilised and followed,” he told ...

At least 33 Haitians are in Barbados for more than one month now, and have told authorities there that they are awaiting visas to enter Guyana. Guyana’s Minister of Home Affairs, Robeson Benn told Demerara Waves Online News that he was aware of the reports but he declined to say whether or not they would be granted visas. “I got ...

Attorney General Anil Nandlall on Tuesday said President Irfaan Ali did not breach Guyana’s Constitution by selecting Assistant Police Commissioner Clifton Hicken to act as Police Commissioner, and added that he was not obliged to pick the most senior police officer. In clear reference to concerns raised by the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) that Deputy Police Commissioner Paul Williams ...

The Trinidad and Tobago Manufacturers Association (TTMA) on Tuesday assailed the 15-nation Caribbean Community (CARICOM) for failing to remove non-tariff barriers on goods, especially food being produced in the region. TTMA’s Chief Executive Officer, Mahindra Ramdeen vented his frustration at the trade bloc’s failure to create a truly single space for regional goods because of “the political will or whatever ...

Minister of Natural Resources, Vickram Bharrat  on Tuesday said government has softened its enforcement of backfilling and reforestation of areas that have been already mined because of generally low recovery rates of the precious yellow metal. He said the current rate of recovery is about 30- to 35 percent which means that there is another 65 percent of gold that ...

An Afro-Guyanese policewoman, who has accused an Indo-Guyanese lawyer of using racial slurs against her while she was on duty at his father’s residence, is seeking GY$150 million in damages for allegedly defaming her. “By reason of the publication of the said  column, the claimant has been severely injured in reputation, credit, subject to ridicule and lowered in the estimation ...