Residents of Windsor Forest and neighbouring villages on the West Coast Demerara  were Saturday afternoon bracing for flood after problems developed with a recently built koker (drainage sluice). Residents said the GUY$148 million dollar koker buckled under pressure from the high tide at about 5 PM. A resident explained that creases or spaces have developed between the boards that are ...

Former President, Bharrat Jagdeo Saturday afternoon warned supporters of his People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) that if they do not turn out and vote resounding next month, the opposition would cause unrest. Addressing thousands of supporters at a rally at Damon Square, Essequibo Coast, he said already the opposition was setting the stage for disturbances by already objecting to the ...

Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Dr. Steve Surujbally has ditched calls by government for the seven-member commission to consider and approve reports by the Media Monitoring Unit (MMU). Addressing prospective election observers of the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU), he insisted that the commission would remain an autonomous unit of the Commission to “name, blame and shame” errant ...

“He who controls the present controls the past.  He who controls the past controls the future.”  That was George Orwell in his timeless masterpiece1984.  The mighty can sift arbitrarily and select capriciously to manage minds to direct a specific outcome.  This is not about appearances, or speculation of what might be happening here in Guyana.  It is the cold, irrefutable ...

Reeling from a spike in vandalism especially during this month, the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) on Friday issued a stirring appeal to Guyanese to report anyone seen cutting telephone cables to 0908. The company announced that anyone who reports vandalism in progress and leads to the capture and prosecution of perpetrators would be rewarded. Against the background of ...

Printing of ballots in Canada for next month’s general and regional elections has begun and is being overseen by two Guyana Elections Commissioners, according to Commission Chairman, Dr. Steve Surujbally. “We have two commissioners in Canada right now overseeing the printing of ballots,” he told Demerara Waves Online News.   Printing, he said, is expected to be completed by next week ...

The People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) on Friday accused A Partnership for National Unity+ Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) of centrally directed intimidation of its campaigners, a charge that the opposition coalition has denied while at the same urging the government to figure out the reason why they are greeted with hostility in some areas. PPP Assistant Election Agent for Georgetown, ...

Hours after anti-government protesters jostled with police to protest outside the Marriott Hotel in Kingston, Georgetown; President Donald Ramotar heaped scorn on opponents of the project. “It had to overcome considerable odds but today despite all of these attacks and slanders by people specialized in negativity and trying to destroy things it has become a reality,” he said to applause. ...

A Guyana-born American, who has previously eluded efforts to extradite him to the United States (US) , was Thursday arrested after more than 100 kilogrammes of cocaine and a sum of Guyanese currency were allegedly found in his possession. He has been identified as Barry “Mogatini” Dataram. Back in 2008-2010, Dataram engaged in several successful legal maneuvers in Guyana’s High ...

A young American citizen and an elderly Guyanese man on Thursday appeared in court on separate charges of cocaine possession for the purpose of trafficking to the United States. Twenty-seven year old US Citizen Reuben Lang was sentenced to three years imprisonment and fined GUY$1.5 million for being in possession of 6.92 kilogrammes of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking. ...