Guyana will be asking the United Nations (UN) to take steps to settle the border controversy with Venezuela legally, days after that Spanish-speaking neighbour decided to claim all the territorial waters off Essequibo as hers, Foreign Minister Carl Greenidge said Wednesday. In a statement to the National Assembly on the issue, Greenidge said the only alternative that Guyana has at ...

People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) candidate, Attorney – at – Law Euclin Gomes is moving to the High Court to challenge an alleged instruction by Minister within the Ministry of Social Protection, Simona Broomes, to the Public Service Commission (PSC) for it to temporarily cease interviews. Court documents seen by Demerara Waves Online News today, show that Gomes, who is ...

CARACAS, June 10, 2015 (AFP) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Tuesday blamed Exxon Mobil for strains with neighboring Guyana over disputed territorial waters, and said diplomacy should ultimately win out. A decree issued by Caracas on May 27 lays claim to waters off the Essequibo River region, a disputed territory that borders Venezuela and encompasses more than half of Guyana. The Venezuelan ...

Veteran Guyanese legal expert on the Law of the Sea, Dr. Barton Scotland has been confirmed as the new Speaker of the 65-seat National Assembly. A usually reliable source in the coalition administration confirmed that Scotland, a former Guyanese diplomat, would be taking up his seat after he is voted into office by government parliamentarians who enjoy a one-seat majority. ...

Permanent Secretary of the now defunct Ministry of Labour, Patrick Findlay on Tuesday became the latest such public officer to have been sent home following the change of government. A disappointed Findlay told Demerara Waves Online News that Senior Minister of Social Protection, Volda Lawrence summoned him to a meeting, advising that his position was now redundant because there is ...

The Ministry of Finance is to implement stricter measures, including blacklisting persons from travelling, to rein in “recalcitrant” beneficiaries of the Student Loan Fund. The Fund was set up by government in 1994 to assist persons with financial constraints in acquiring a tertiary education at the University of Guyana (UG). Since then, over GUY$400 million has been put into the ...

Venezuela on Tuesday accused Guyana’s newly elected government of provocation at the behest of American oil-giant, Exxon-Mobil, and sought to justify its maritime boundary demarcation in line with its claim of the mineral and forest-rich Essequibo Region.  “It weighs note that the unique and surprising aggression, is that the government of Guyana has allowed such a powerful transnational as Exxon ...

Three suspected robbers were Tuesday afternoon arrested by police at Den Amstel back dam, West Coast Demerara. Police said that at about 0545h. today Tuesday June 09, 2015, two men, one of who whom was armed with a handgun, entered the home of Wazim Khan, 54 years, of Anna Catherina, WCD, through an open door and held him at gunpoint. ...

The Peoples Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) has decided to boycott the first sitting of the 11th Parliament which is scheduled for Wednesday, June 10th, a top party official says. The official, who agreed to divulge these plans under the condition of anonymity, also says that the party will stage a picketing exercise Wednesday in front of Parliament building in protest ...

by Zena Henry Junior Minister of Social Protection Simona Broomes has rubbished claims of   “executive lawlessness” made against her by the opposition. She stating that a letter written to the Public Service Commission (PSC) on staff appointments was a mere request to put the appointments on hold so that they can first fix the broken system. Boomes said that the ...