As Guyana gradually enters the general election campaign season, the joint opposition on Saturday sought to rally public rejection of government’s GY$1 trillion budget on the grounds that it does nothing to counter spiralling cost of living but puts more than 100 billion in the hands of a small group of contractors. The Alliance For Change (AFC), Working People’s Alliance ...

Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton Saturday night put the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC)-led administration on notice that the opposition would resist any attempt by the incumbent party to remain in office if it loses the next general and regional elections. He also signaled that a People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR)-led coalition government would shift around PPPC loyalists currently in government ...

Reproduced from WABC JAMAICA, Queens (WABC) — A traveler at John F. Kennedy International Airport has been arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle cocaine inside of bags of jumbo shrimp, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York. Zacharie Scott, 22, is a citizen of the United States who lives in Guyana. He was arrested Friday ...

The University of Guyana (UG) has received a substantial shot in the arm after 31 of its faculty members who were studying for their PhDs and Ed.Ds graduated in December 2023, the publicly funded tertiary institution said Saturday. The scholars from across UG’s 8 Faculties and several service units are already back at the University carrying out teaching, research and ...

Wanted murder suspect Shaquawn ‘Izwe$ Alleyne has confessed to investigators that he killed his girlfriend Shonette Dover, and then disposed of her body in a shallow grave, the Guyana Police Force said Saturday. The murder suspect was captured in Suriname and arrived in Guyana Friday morning to face charges over the 2021 murder of his girlfriend. On his arrival in ...

Newly-minted Shadow Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, Nima Flue-Bess intends to campaign for long-overdue modern copyright legislation to protect the artistic works of Guyanese composers, authors, poets and other artists. “We have to ensure that we have the necessary legislation that would help to protect the work that our people would have done,” she said. A teacher by profession, ...

Reproduced from the Sydney Morning Herald by Emma Kemp The only way to get to Baracara is by very small boat. From Guyana’s port town of New Amsterdam, the trip up the Canje River is about 225km but can apparently take up to two days, so thick and tangled is the grass that grows along the banks of the narrow ...

The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) on Friday indicated that it has dropped its President, Dr Hyginus ‘Gene’ Leon from its annual press conference which has now been pushed back by almost one month. In its latest advisory for the now slated February 20, 2024 news conference, the line-up will be Vice-President Operations, Mr Isaac Solomon; Director, Economics Department, Mr Ian ...

A Commission of Inquiry (COI) into the Mahdia Secondary School fire that killed 20 children last year has found that the “inferno” was linked to a number of socio-economic conditions in the mining community to which mainly girls are vulnerable. COI Chairman, Retired Major General Joseph Singh said the events and circumstances and the causes of the “appalling act of ...

The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on Friday, 19th January granted the application for special leave in the case of Bharrat Jagdeo v Annette Ferguson. The CCJ decided that the Court of Appeal of Guyana has jurisdiction to grant leave to hear an appeal from an evenly divided Full Court. On 9 January 2020, the Respondent filed proceedings in the High Court ...