The Fisheries Department of the Ministry of Agriculture has joined with the Seabob Industry to apply for Marine Stewardship Council Certification (MSC), the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported on Tuesday. This certification is a well-recognised eco-label that proves that a country has adopted sustainable fishing practices. The Seabob Industry and the Fisheries Department are putting measures in place to ensure that ...

The Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Dr. Steve Surujbally and the Commonwealth Secretary General, Kamalesh Sharma have agreed that the tedious and time-consuming system of the collection, delivery and declaration of official election results needs to be changed. “Moving forward GECOM could try to reduce the many steps currently used to transmit elections results while still maintaining unmitigated ...

The Commonwealth Mission that observed Guyana’s recently-held general and regional elections wants local media workers punished severely for breaking the Media Code of Conduct, according to the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM). The electoral management body reflected on a section of the Observers’ report on the May 11, 2015 elections that recommends that laws be enacted to penalize media workers that ...

Commonwealth Secretary General , Kamalesh Sharma on Tuesday shrugged off concerns about the hiring of Guyana’s former president Bharrat Jagdeo to observe Sri Lanka’s general elections earlier this year. Jagdeo had stated that the Observer Mission had found that campaign in the run-up to the January 8, 2015 general election in Sri Lanka had been marred by a number of ...

The Foreign Affairs Ministry has dispatched a team to Guyana’s High Commission India to peruse the accounts and general administration as High Commissioner Ronald Gajraj prepares to demit office as a result of a change in government, a senior Foreign Ministry official said. The official said an Accountant from the Foreign Ministry in Guyana and United States-based Guyanese Foreign Service ...

A fire at Enterprise East Coast Demerara destroyed a house mid Tuesday morning leaving five persons homeless, one day after nine others lost their home in a blaze on the West Bank Demerara. At the time of the fire at 512 Forbes Street, Enterprise Gardens, no one was at home. Investigators were working on the theory that the fire was ...

by Zena Henry Two newcomers to Guyana’s political landscape- Elisabeth Harper and Clinton Urling- will be among four persons who will not be in the National Assembly when the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) takes up its seats in the National Assembly. So, too, will be Dr. Nanda Kishore Gopaul and Robert Persaud. Harper and Gopaul have confirmed to Demerara ...

by Zena Henry As government prepares to name a new Chairman and Board of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC), differences have surfaced between the management of that regulatory authority and the incumbent chairman, Clinton Williams who has since mounted a strong defence of his integrity. Demerara Waves Online News was told that former high-ranking military officer has been ...

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) on Monday said a new law that seeks to cut the benefits and facilities of former presidents on grounds that it would be unconstitutional. Former Attorney General, Anil Nandlall argued that three ex Guyanese Presidents and current President David Granger cannot lose their benefits because the constitution guarantees right to property, employment and security of ...

Former Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry and former Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions, Jo-Ann Barlow were Monday  June 29 sworn in as Puisne Judges by President David Granger. Witnessing the swearing-in at the ministry of the Presidency were Chancellor of the Judiciary (ag) Carl Singh, Minister of Legal Affairs and Attorney General Basil Williams and Minister of State Joseph Harmon, along ...