A Region Four (Demerara-Mahaica) Councillor has been arrested in connection with allegedly firing a handgun in Alexandee Village, Georgetown on Monday- Phagwah, police said. Head of the Guyana Police Force’s Criminal Investigations Department, Assistant Commissioner Wendell Blanhum confirmed that a report was made and an investigation was launched. He said the suspect has since been arrested and the firearm seized ...

France has agreed to supply vessels to boost Guyana’s maritime patrol capacity, the two countries said Tuesday. “As part of the ongoing security cooperation, on March 25, 2024 Guyana announced the acquisition of maritime patrol assets from France. This is a further illustration of the commitment of the two sides to strengthen the bilateral relationship,” France and Guyana said in ...

Guyanese who would like to visit European Union (EU) member-nations would from next year no longer have to travel to Suriname to obtain Schengen visas, as France would be doing so in 2025 when it opens an embassy in Georgetown, Foreign Affairs Minister Hugh Todd said Saturday. Mr Todd said France’s decision to establish a full-fledged diplomatic presence here was ...

by GHK Lall I thought that civil society should be fearful, since its outspoken members and entities are the ones under constant attacks from the PPP Government and Bharrat Jagdeo’s round table.  Instead, the attackers are the frikkened ones.  Something has rattled their cage, whipped them into a frenzy.  Word is that the recent UN Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) proceedings ...

Opposition shadow Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Roysdale Forde has recommended broad-based national dialogue on  Guyana’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, in the wake of the Venezuela’s government’s passage of a law to make Essequibo a Venezuelan state. “In response to these challenging times, I urge the President of Guyana, Mr. Irfaan Ali, to exercise decisive leadership by convening ...

A Guyana-backed motion at the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Assembly on the absence of parliamentary democracy in Venezuela was defeated on Saturday after objections by Cuba and Ecuador. Prior to the vote on the motion, Speaker of Guyana’s National Assembly, Manzoor Nadir said Venezuela was not represented at the March 23- 27 event in Geneva, Switzerland because of a “lack of ...

Foreign Affairs Minister Hugh Todd on Monday confirmed that government has given approval to a private company to hire health care workers, and said that the company could now do so from any other country not just Bangladesh. “They have amended that…It can be Latin America and the Caribbean, it could be Asia. It is broad now so they are ...

The leaders of Guyana and Suriname have decided that ministers from both neighbouring South American nations would have to hold further talks on key issues for the construction of a US$300 million bridge across the Corentyne River. Major decisions were take by President Irfaan Ali and his Surinamese counterpart, Chandrikapersad Santokhi in talks held at Soesdyke, East Bank Demerara on ...

Guyana on Sunday condemned the killing of more than 100 persons in a terrorist attack on a concert hall in Russia. The Foreign Ministry said the Guyana government “strongly condemns” the attack at the venue in Krasnogorsk in the Moscow Region of the Russian in March 22, 2024. Many others have been injured. “We hope that the injured will quickly ...

by GHK Lall Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro has upped the stakes on Guyana, remorselessly ratchets up the pressure.  On paper, in rhetoric, he is going for broke, he will have to cross the line, the point of no turning back, at some fateful hour.  What will be the fatal straw?  Or maybe the convenient concoction drummed up to rationalize, to give ...