By: Dr. Vivian M. Williams After a failed coup d’état in Türkiye, the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, directed its fury to a dissident exiled in the United States. It accused Fetullah Gulen of instigating antigovernment sentiments and violence in Türkiye that led to the attempt on the President’s life. Because Gulen was beyond the reach of legal process ...

An Assistant at the Lands and Surveys Commission was shot dead and another man was seriously by bandits who invaded a wedding house at Canal Number 2 Polder, West Bank Demerara late Old Year’s Night 2023. Investigators said 40-year-old Natram ‘Vishal’ Persaud, an Assistant at the Lands and Survey Department and of Lot 43 Stanleytown, West Bank Demerara was shot ...

Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton on Monday-New Year’s Day 2024- said the serving of summonses to New York-based Guyanese opposition activist, Rickford Burke, is a sign of the further deterioration of human rights by the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC)-led administration. “Its assault on our freedoms of expression and association reached even more dangerous heights, as the recent court summons served ...

President Irfaan Ali and Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton on Monday broke New Year 2024 with different accounts on whether Guyanese are pocketing more money or are grappling with serious poverty. While the Guyanese leader boasted of a “phenomenal” 40 percent economic growth in 2023, a more than 21.5 percent increase in the salary base of all public servants since 2020, ...

President Irfaan Ali on Monday- New Year’s Day 2024- announced that steps would be taken to reduce the number of traffic accidents on Guyana’s roads, even as a number of traffic offences are committed just outside State House and the Police Headquarters at least weekly. In his New Year’s Message, Dr Ali said the carnage on Guyana’s roads “will be ...

By Dr. Randy Persaud, Professor Emeritus The world knows Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo as a brilliant economist. Even those who do not like his politics acknowledge that the General Secretary of the PPP, who is also the current Vice President, has mastered the intricacies of macro-economic management. Party supporters and even opposition elements also know him as a shrewd and fearless ...

by Retired Rear Admiral Dr Gary Best Nothing Bharrat Jagdeo said, as General Secretary of the PPP/c, at his last press  conference, for 2023 had anything remotely relevant to the extant question I raised  in the Opinion piece of 24th December 2023, published by Demerara Waves, which was, did President Ali exceed Parliamentary authority by discussing a  territorial dispute with ...

A female vendor of the Parika Facade, East Bank Essequibo was early Sunday morning allegedly beaten to death by her husband who has since been arrested, the Guyana Police Force said. The dead woman has been identified as 25-year old Parbattie Amanda Persaud and the alleged perpetrator is 39-year old Guradean Lallaram, a mason, of Parika Facade. Investigators were informed ...

A vendor of D’urban Backlands Squatting Area, Georgetown was shot and assaulted by two of three men who turned up at his home late last week, police said. The motive for the attack on 31-year-old Quason Leacock was not known, but the man told investigators that one of the men only known as “Tallman’ asked him in an aggressive manner ...

A 56-year-old man of Wismar, Linden was Saturday afternoon chopped to death but not before slashing his brothers-in-law several times after they went to rescue their sister and her children from their home. the Guyana Police Force said Sunday. Dead is John Jones of Block 22 Squatting Area, Wismar. Investigators said his body was found lying at the back of ...