Guyana on Friday deplored Venezuela’s decision to declare Essequibo as its State, despite an agreement by Presidents Nicolas Maduro and Irfaan Ali to desist from taking any action that would escalate tensions between the neifhbouring South American nations. Home Affairs Minister Robeson Benn told the opening of a conference of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Regional Security System that Guyana deplores ...

Suriname’s President Chandrikapersad Santokhi is expected in Guyana this weekend to hold talks with President Irfaan Ali to decide on financing the construction of the Corentyne River bridge, the leader of that former Dutch colony said Thursday. Public Works Minister Juan Edghill on Friday ruled out the need to return to the tendering process for the for the construction of ...

A handyman was Thursday morning shot dead by a security guard, who is 20 years old, at an auto sales company at Lusignan, East Coast Demerara, the Guyana Police Force said. The dead man has been named as 19-year old Jared Jaganand of Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara. Police said the security guard, who is employed by Cerberus Security Service, ...

Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), Aubrey Norton- confident that he would be reelected to his party’s top  job at internal elections in August- said he would be the opposition’s presidential candidate, but he would be willing to make way for a consensus pick. “As is presently structured, I see that we’ll have a congress, I would be ...

Hours after Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton said Guyana’s testimony before the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) revealed the true state of civil and political rights here, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo accused the opposition of influencing mainly the United States’ nominated committee member who asked several questions about corruption. Mr Norton said the three days of UNHRC hearings exposed the ...

A school drop-out was arrested shortly after the killing of a 17-year old unemployed boy, and police are searching for another student who was allegedly involved in the homicide at Patentia, West Bank Demerara late Wednesday night. Dead is 17-year old Aaron Bess of 234 Patentia. Investigators were informed that he was walking to a shop at about 9:30 PM ...

by Samuel J. Goolsarran This Act provides for an Arbitration Tribunal for the settlement of disputes in public utility undertakings, and in certain other services. The schedule under Act should be amended by the National Assembly urgently to include public education from primary and secondary schools’ institutions and the University of Guyana as essential services. This Act provides for the ...

The Ministry of Education’s Chief Education Officer, Saddam Hussain on Wednesday told a High Court hearing that there could no longer be debunching of teachers’ salaries. He explained that with graduate teachers now earning the maximum in the salary scale, debunching was no longer on the Education Ministry’s agenda, though that remained a demand by the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU). ...

Vice President of the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU), Julian Cambridge on Wednesday admitted that financial matters were discussed with the government. Representing the government, lawyer Dharshan Ramdhani, at the outset, established that the previous multi-year agreement between the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) and the government remains in force until a new agreement is reached. GTU Vice President Julian Cambridge, under ...

American Human Rights advocate, Laurence Helfer’s questions to the Guyana government before the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) about last year’s detention of Permanent Secretary Mae Toussaint Jr. Thomas-Meerabux by United States Customs and Border Protection Agents. He pointed to her arrest as an example of alleged corruption and wanted to know what the Guyana government had been doing ...