The mother and brother of one of the Henrys who were brutally hacked to death in September, have been slapped with several charges related the altercation between them and policemen at the Sparendaam Police Station earlier this week. Police said 24-year-old Colwyn Henry and his mother Gail Johnson, both of Cotton Tree, West Coast Berbice, allegedly assaulted a police sergeant ...

A 38-year-old woman and her two-year-old grandson of Friendship Canal Lower, Pomeroon River drowned late Friday night as they were heading home in a wooden balahoo fitted with a 75 Horse Power (HP) engine and driven by her drunken husband, police said. The boat was driven by her husband, 42-year-old Riley Gill. Police said that between 11:30 PM Friday and ...

Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire on Friday asked the State to prove that it obeyed the Combatting in Trafficking In Persons Act, after claiming that the now departed 26 Haitians had been deemed as victims of people trafficking. “I am just more interested in the legal issues that I have raised because when I read the affidavits because, to my mind ...

Newly-minted Senior Counsel, Timothy Jonas is recommending a broad-based committee of legal experts be established to recommend to the President who should be conferred with Silk, following a High Court ruling that cited the need for a transparent process. Attorney General Anil Nandlall, during the case about the role of the Executive in the process, also promised that efforts would ...

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Friday ruled that it could hear Guyana’s case on the validity of the 1899 Arbitral Tribunal Award that settled the land dispute with Venezuela, even as that Spanish-speaking country was criticised for not participating in the hearing on the jurisdiction of the World Court. The decision was by a majority of 12 votes ...

The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) has written President Irfaan Ali, demanding 10% to 30% risk allowances retroactive to January, 2020 as well as a bonus of one-month tax-free salary for all frontline healthcare workers. In a letter to the Guyanese leader, the union is also separately demanding a one-month tax-free salary to all healthcare workers as a separate payout. ...

President Irfaan Ali on Thursday said the Auditor General’s Office would be conducting an audit of the GYD$25,000  per household to ensure the monies were properly disbursed and ascertain if anyone did not receive the COVID-19 cash grant. He said he asked the Ministry of  Finance, Ministry of Human Services and the Auditor General to examine the concerns that have ...

President Irfaan Ali on Thursday  said he boycotted this week’s first-ever National Conversation because the government was not involved in planning the event and selecting the panelists, concerns about decision-making and silence by that constitutional body about the five-month long political crisis over the elections. “Every single stakeholder in Guyana agrees that democracy was under threat but the ERC did ...

High Court Judge, Naresh Harnanan on Thursday ruled that the Executive President has the authority to appoint Senior Counsel, clearing the way for the conferment of the title to three lawyers by President Irfaan Ali later in the afternoon. They are Attorney General, Anil Nandlall, and Attorneys-at-Law Timothy  Jonas and Jamela Ali. Mr. Jonas had challenged the role of the ...

The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) is questioning the apparent refusal by the Guyana government to hand over copies of key files to the Argentine Forensic Anthropologist concerning the killing of three youths in West Berbice earlier this year. “Finally, WPA takes this opportunity to demand the police and the government to come clean on what it knows about the murder ...