Former President Donald Ramotar on Wednesday rejected claims by the new government that all the monies in the PetroCaribe fund had been squandered and none was available to pay cash-strapped rice farmers. “The money went to the rice farmers. You don’t expect if you are going to give the money to the rice farmers and paying the millers for the ...

Former President Donald Ramotar on Wednesday defended the decision by his People’s Progressive Party (PPP) to send several persons with sullied images to the National Assembly. “When they were chosen on the list, these things were not unknown and the party decided to put them on the list to go into the National Assembly so very, very clearly a lot ...

An American woman was Tuesday found guilty for procuring persons to traffick in cocaine and she was sentenced to five years imprisonment. She is 56-year old Dawn Saul-Khan of 2098 Festival City, South Ruimveldt, Georgetown. Magistrate Leron Daley found the accused guilty of procuring Chaliqua Johnson to traffic 365 grammes of cocaine to the United States of America on October ...

by Zena HenryThe People’s Progressive Party (PPP) has accused government sacking almost 2,000 Community Support Officers (CSO), but the administration on Tuesday countered by claiming that millions of dollars were paid to many of those persons for doing little or nothing. Junior Minister of Amerindian Affairs, Valerie Garrido-Lowe denied that the CSO programme was being dumped, saying that it was ...

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) on Tuesday confirmed that former President Bharrat Jagdeo would be Opposition Leader, with his name being among the 32 persons identified to take up their seats in the National Assembly. Based on the PPP’s statement, it appears that the Civic component has been dropped and the party would be going it alone  in the opposotion ...

Government and top security chiefs on Tuesday began hammering out a “strategic crime fighting approach” to deal with the recent spike in gun crimes that have left more than one dozen persons dead for the year. “The clear message coming out of this initial meeting is that the Administration intends to move swiftly and vigorously to arrest violent crime in ...

Venezuela on Tuesday replaced a controversial decree on its maritime boundary, less than one week after the 15-nation Caribbean Community (Caricom) backed Guyana in its latest border spat with that Spanish-speaking country. Well-placed sources knowledgeable about the issue said the new Decree 40.696 does not include any measurements unlike the previous one that sparked off a bitter row between the ...

A former Customs Anti Narcotics Unit (CANU) agent is one of two persons charged in connection with the discovery of about 500 grammes of cocaine in shoe soles at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA). Kurt Sunich is charged with possession of the cocaine for the purpose of trafficking, while an outgoing passenger to New York, 22-year old Israel George, ...

The Benab Foundation is targeting more than 120 high-school youth across five schools in Georgetown to help children transitioning from Second to Third Form this year enhance their numeracy and literacy capabilities. The programme, dubbed the Cognitive Initiative, is now in its third year, having been commenced in 2013; a year after former students of Queen’s College created the non-profit ...

by Zena Henry Former Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee has basically failed the new government in their manner of addressing the current spike in crime. Rohee also told reporters Tuesday July 7 at Freedom House that he does not support the 2 am ‘party done’ curfew by Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan as it will not help the curb the ...